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1995 Calendar

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•  January 22, 1995 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
•  January 31, 1995 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
•  February 17, 1995 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.
•  February 22, 1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
•  March 31, 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.
•  May 28, 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.
•  July 18, 1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
•  September 28, 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
•  October 27, 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
•  November 6, 1995 – The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.

•  February 2, 1995 – Paul Digby, English footballer
•  March 12, 1995 – Kanon Fukuda, Japanese singer
•  April 6, 1995 – Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese actor and singer
•  May 12, 1995 – Luke Benward, American actor
•  July 9, 1995 – Georgie Henley, English actress
•  September 4, 1995 – Trevor Gagnon, American actor
•  September 20, 1995 – Sammi Hanratty, American actress
•  November 2, 1995 – Brandon Soo Hoo, American actor
•  November 16, 1995 – Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor