1995

• March 14 - Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
• March 20 - Terrorist incident: Members of the Aum Supreme Truth <td style="background-color:#efefef;">7:

• July - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by Thursday, August 31, 1995
• July 1 - Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
• July 17 - The Nasdaq stock index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
• July 27 - In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
• July 28 - Network Solutions announces a new policy to help companies protect their trademarks on the Internet.

• August 1995 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamil al Majid, minister of industry and military industrialisation, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last UN declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.

• September 2 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
• September 4 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
• September 6 - With the jury absent, Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.
• September 8 - Timon And Pumbaa Launches On the major television networks

• October 4 - O. J. Simpson is found innocent. (He would be found liable in a second civil trial in 1996)
• October 30 - Quebec separatists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to neogiate independence from Canada

• November 3 - At Arlington National Cemetery, US President Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial to the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
• November 4 - After attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Kings Square, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is mortally wounded by a right-wing Israeli gunman. (He later died on the operating table at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv).
• November 10 - Iraq disarmament crisis: With help from Israel and Jordan, UN inspector Ritter intercepts 240 Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia.
• Friday, November 10, 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.
• November 14 - A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the United States Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and run most government offices with skeleton staff.
• November 17 - Public Radio International's radio program This American Life broadcasts its first episode, "New Beginnings"
• November 20 - The European Union and Israel enter into a comprehensive "Teaty of Association" negotiated and signed by Javier Solana and Shimon Peres. The signing occurs in Brussels, November 20, 1995.
• November 21 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 (5,023.55) for the first time.
• November 22 - Eilat, Israel, Egypt, and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake in Israel's history -- 7.2 mw. Curiously, within a week there is attempted historical revisionism downwards to 6.2 with Gulf of Aqaba architects and engineers holding the bag for alleged 'shoddy construction'. A 6.2 mw earthquake is only 1/100th the magnitude of a 7.2 quake. Some suspect that there may have been apprehensions that the three major religious groups in Mideast -- Jews, Christians, and Moslems may have taken the quake as some type of divine warning coming as it did in the wake of a major EU - Israeli Treaty of Association.
• November 27 - Javier Solana opens Barcelona Conference. Its reported advance aims are battling religious fundamentalism, worldwide; creating a free trade zone in the Mediterranean by the year 2010; and reducing the USA's presence in the Mediterranean. USA is granted 'observer status only.'
• November 28 - Barcelona Treaty signed by 27 attending nations
• November 28 - US President Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit.
• November 30 - Javier Solana is unanimously picked as surprise dark horse candidate to be new head of NATO. Fifty two USA congress members send telegram to White House objecting because of Solana's previous alleged pro-Castro policies in his position as Spanish foreign minister.

• December 16 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of UNSCOM, dredge the Tigris River near Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian made missile instruments and components.
• December 28 - CompuServe sets a precedent by blocking access to sex-oriented newsgroups after being pressured by German prosecutors.
• December 31 - The publication of the last new Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip.

• The Ebola virus kills 244 Africans in Kikwit, Zaire in Central Africa.
• 10 people are found guilty for bombing the World Trade Center in 1994.
• Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. makes history as the first African American astronaut to walk in space.

• 1995 in film
  • Braveheart directed by and starring Mel Gibson
  • Apollo 13
  • Babe
• 1995 in literature
  • Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft Rice & Zelikow
• 1995 in music
  • MP3 files start flourishing on the Internet
• 1995 in sports
  • January 29 - Super Bowl XXIX San Francisco 49ers (49) def. San Diego Chargers (26)
  • February 11 -
    • Danyon Loader swims world record 400 meters freestyle.
    • Mark Foster swims world record 50 meters butterfly.
    • Sandra Volker swims European record 50 meters backstroke.
    • US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge.
• 1995 in television
  • April 12 - Drew Barrymore appears on The Late Show with David Letterman. In honor of Letterman's birthday, guest Barrymore dances on his desk and flashes him on-air.
  • First television program broadcast via the Internet.

• January 9 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer
• January 22 - Rose Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family
• January 31 - George Abbott, writer, director, producer
• January 30 - Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter
• February 2 - Donald Pleasence, actor
• February 4 - Patricia Highsmith, author
• February 12 - Robert Bolt, writer (born 1924)
• February 21 - Calder Willingham, writer
• February 26 - Bill Hicks
• March 5 - Vivian Stanshall, comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, musician, performer, frontman for Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
• March 13 - Leon Day, baseballer
• Monday, March 13, 1995 - Odette Sansom, SOE agent, WW II heroine
• March 27 - Maurizio Gucci
• April 23 - Howard Cosell, sportscaster
• April 25 - Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer
• May 15 - Eric Porter, actor
• May 18 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
• Thursday, May 18, 1995 - Alexander Godunov, ballet dancer, actor
• Thursday, May 18, 1995 - Elisha Cook Jr., actor
• May 26 - Friz Freleng, animator
• June 20 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist
• June 30 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut
• July 4 - Eva Gabor, actress
• August 7 - Brigid Brophy, British writer
• August 9 - Jerry Garcia, musician and lead guitarist of The Grateful Dead.
• August 19 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète
• November 4 - Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister
• November 21 - Noel Jones, British diplomat
• December 2 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist
• Murray Rothbard , American economist

• Physics - Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
• Chemistry - Paul J Crutzen, Mario J Molina, F Sherwood Rowland
• Medicine - Edward B Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric Wieschaus
• Literature - Seamus Heaney
• Economics - Robert Lucas Jr