WHAT HAPPENED IN 1995.
Look what happened the 1995.

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta. (26. October 1995)

Latvia applies for membership in the European Union. (27. October 1995)

Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption. (27. October 1995)

289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster. (28. October 1995)

Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli. (4. November 1995)

André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door. (5. November 1995)

The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire. (6. November 1995)

Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, the first time the city had a football team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts. (6. November 1995)

In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces. (10. November 1995)

A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility. (13. November 1995)

A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs. (14. November 1995)

The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year. (21. November 1995)

Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery. (22. November 1995)

Official end of Operation Desert Storm. (30. November 1995)

U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favour of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall. He calls terrorists "yesterday's men". (30. November 1995)

Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna. (5. December 1995)

The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34. (7. December 1995)

Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. (14. December 1995)

The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe. (19. December 1995)

NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia. (20. December 1995)

   
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