1995

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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s

Years: 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 - 1995 - 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

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Beginning of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-2005): http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/

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Births

Deaths

• January 9 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer
• February 26 - Bill Hicks
• August 19 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete
• December 2 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist
• Murray Rothbard , American economist]

Events

• January 1 - Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union
• January 17 - An Earthquake measured at 7.2 on the Richter Scale occurred at 05:46am JST near Kobe in the Southern area of Hyogo in Japan. The damage was very bad, but many volunteers from across Japan as well as the whole world helped the inhabitants who were damaged by the earthquake.
• March 20 - Members of the Aum Supreme Truth release sarin gas in the Tokyo subway system.
• April 19 - Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma city was bombed.
• May 23 - The Java programming language was announced to the world.
• Ænima by Tool, was recorded in the USA.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
• Chemistry - Paul J Crutzen, Mario J Molina, F Sherwood Rowland
• Medicine - Edward B Lewis, [[Christiane N
• Economics - Robert Lucas Jr

Sport

• January 29 - Super Bowl XXIX San Francisco 49ers (49) def. San Diego Chargers (26)
• February 11 - Danyon Loader swims world record 400 meters freestyle.
• February 11 - Mark Foster swims world record 50 meters butterfly.
• February 11 - Sandra Volker swims European record 50 meters backstroke.
• February 11 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge.

Books

• Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft Rice & Zelikow