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1995 Calendar

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•  January 30, 1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
•  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 26, 1995 – The United Kingdom’s oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
•  August 4, 1995 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
•  August 30, 1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
•  October 27, 1995 – Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
•  November 14, 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.
•  November 30, 1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
•  December 20, 1995 – NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.

•  January 12, 1995 – Laurel McGoff, American reality show contestant
•  March 21, 1995 – Diggy Simmons, American rapper
•  April 6, 1995 – Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese actor and singer
•  May 12, 1995 – Luke Benward, American actor
•  May 25, 1995 – Gabby Soleil, American actress
•  June 28, 1995 – Kåre Hedebrant, Swedish actor
•  September 4, 1995 – Trevor Gagnon, American actor
•  September 5, 1995 – Caroline Sunshine, American actress
•  September 27, 1995 – Lina Leandersson, Swedish actress
•  December 6, 1995 – Joy Gruttmann, German singer