1995
From top to bottom, left to right: The Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people, the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history; Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv; O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder; Windows 95 is released by Microsoft; the Sampoong Department Store collapse in Seoul kills over 500 people; the Srebrenica massacre takes place during the Bosnian War; the Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing over 6,000 people; American Airlines Flight 965 crashes into a mountain near Cali, Colombia, killing 151 people; Tejano singer Selena is murdered by the president of her fan club.
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1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1995th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 995th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1990s decade.
1995 was designated as:
- United Nations Year for Tolerance
- World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the Information Age. America Online and Prodigy offered access to the World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.