WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JULY 1995
Find out what all happened May to July 1995

33-year-old British mother Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas. (13. May 1995)

The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population. (28. May 1995)

A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people. (11. July 1995)

Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union. (5. July 1995)

Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time. (29. June 1995)

Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan. (21. July 1995)

United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. (2. June 1995)

The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.. (27. July 1995)

The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. (8. June 1995)

The Srebrenica massacre is carried out. (11. July 1995)

Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later. (23. July 1995)

During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 and wounding over 175 civilians. (2. May 1995)

More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. (11. May 1995)

A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded. (25. July 1995)

On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee. (18. July 1995)

The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees. (9. July 1995)

"Rugby World Cup final": South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment. (24. June 1995)

Shawn Nelson, 35, steals a tank from a National Guard Armory in San Diego, destroying cars and other property and is shot to death by police after immobilizing the tank. (18. May 1995)

Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence. (1. May 1995)

The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created. (5. June 1995)

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