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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 3, 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
•  February 9, 1995 – Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
•  February 17, 1995 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.
•  March 14, 1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
•  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.
•  August 30, 1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
•  October 27, 1995 – Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
•  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.

•  January 24, 1995 – Callan McAuliffe, Australian actor
•  February 2, 1995 – Paul Digby, English footballer
•  March 1, 1995 – Jonathan Krohn, American political prodigy
•  May 12, 1995 – Luke Benward, American actor
•  June 5, 1995 – Troye Sivan, South African/Australian actor and singer
•  July 11, 1995 – Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer
•  September 20, 1995 – Sammi Hanratty, American actress
•  November 16, 1995 – Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor
•  December 24, 1995 – Anett Kontaveit, Estonian tennis player
•  December 26, 1995 – Zach Mills, American actor