WHAT HAPPENED IN 1995.
Look what happened the 1995.

Yahoo! is incorporated. (1. March 1995)

Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark. (2. March 1995)

Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. (14. March 1995)

Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. (16. March 1995)

A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 13 and wounds 1,300 persons. (20. March 1995)

Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space. (22. March 1995)

WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham. (25. March 1995)

The Schengen Treaty comes into effect. (26. March 1995)

TAROM Flight 371 crashed, killing all of the 10 crew and 50 passengers on board. (31. March 1995)

Selena, an American singer, was murdered by her friend and employee of her boutiques Yolanda Saldívar who was embezzling money from the establishments. The event was named "Black Friday" by Hispanics. (31. March 1995)

First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya. (7. April 1995)

Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. (19. April 1995)

U.S. President Bill Clinton becomes the first President to visit Northern Ireland. (30. April 1995)

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

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

The first version of the Java programming language is released. (23. May 1995)

In Culpeper, Virginia, the actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition. (27. May 1995)

   
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