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1995 Timeline
Jan. 17, 1995: More than 5000 dead in Japanese earthquake.
Jan. 31, 1995: Criminal trial of O.J. Simpson opens in California.
Feb. 3, 1995: Space Shuttle rendezvous with Russian Space Station Mir.
Feb. 21, 1995: U.S. rescues Mexico's economy with a $20-billion aid program.
March 2, 1995: Senate rejects a balanced budget admendment.
March 14, 1995: Russian space station greets first Americans aboard.
March 20, 1995: Nerve gas attack in Tokyo subway kills eight and injures thousands.
March 31, 1995: Selena, 23, popular Spanish-language singer is slain in Texas by a fan.
April 2, 1995: Major league baseball strike ends.
April 13, 1995: Appeals Court upholds woman's plea to enter the Citadel military academy.
April 14, 1995: U.N. Council votes to ease sanctions on Iraq.
April 19, 1995: - Bomb blast kills 169 in Oklahoma City - the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
April 21, 1995: Timothy McVey, 27, Army veteran, is arrested as suspect.
April 22, 1995: Authorities seek a second suspect and link right-wing paramilitary groups to bombing.
April 22, 1995: Death toll 2,000 in Rwanda massacre.
May 1, 1995: Fighting escalates in Bosnia and Croatia.
May 8, 1995: 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe day celebrated.
May 16, 1995: White House imposes harsh trade sanctions on Japan.
May 18, 1995: Japanese police seize cult leader in subway nerve gas attack.
May 22, 1995: Supreme Court rejects term-limit laws.
June 1, 1995: Clinton vetoes Republican's budget cutting bill.
June 2, 1995: Bosnia Serbs hold U.S. troops as hostages.
June 12, 1995: Supreme Court raises doubts on affirmative action.
July 29, 1995: - Susan Smith gets life in prison for drowning her young sons in a South Carolina Lake.
August 10, 1995: U.S. indicts two in Oklahoma City bombing
August 28, 1995: NATO planes bomb Bosnian Serb targets.
Sept. 6, 1995: Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon resigns under pressure for sexual and offical misconduct.
Sept. 24, 1995: Israelis and Palestinians agree on transferring West Bank to Arabs.
October 3, 1995: - O.J. Simpson is acquitted of murdering Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
October 4-8, 1995: Pope John Paul II visits U.S.
October 5, 1995: Warring parties agree to cease-fire in Bosnia.
October 16, 1995: Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital.
October 22-24, 1995: World leaders gather in New York for 50th anniversary of founding of the United Nations.
October 23, 1995: Fan club founder convicted of killing Selena, popular Mexican-American singer.
October 26, 1995: Russian President Yeltsin in hospital with heart attack.
October 30, 1995: Quebec narrowly rejects independence from Canada.
November 4, 1995: Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin slain by Jewish extremist at peace rally.
November 13, 1995: Clinton vetoes stop gap spending and debt-ceiling bills.
November 24, 1995: Irish voters approve end the constitutional ban on divorce.
December 12, 1995: White House defies subpoena in Senate Whitewater inquiry.
December 14, 1995: Combatants sign Bosnia peace treaty.
December 17, 1995: Russian voters rebuff reformers as Communists make biggest gains.
December 18, 1995: U.S. and Mexico delay tranding-access provision in NAFTA.
December 20, 1995: House move stalls Congress-White House negotiations to avert Government shutdown.
Time Magazine's Man of the Year - Newt Gingrich - Storming Congress with a revived G.O.P.