1995 A Car Bomb devastates Oklahoma City Federal
Building, after a NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery the Balkans
War comes to an end and a cease fire is agreed. In technology Javascript
is seen and used for the first time ( only 10 years later very few web
sites do not have some form of Javascript running ).
Cost of Living 1995
How Much things cost in 1995
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 2.81%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 5117
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 8.50%
Average Cost of new house $113,150.00
Average Income per year $35,900.00
Average Monthly Rent $550.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.09
US Postage Stamp 32 cents
Average cost of new car $15,500.00
Loaf of Bread $2.02
Ground Coffee per LB $4.07
Loaf of Bread $1.15
Dozen Eggs 87 cents
What Events Happened in 1995
Truck Bomb devastates
Oklahoma City Federal Building killing 168 people
Syria has Peace talks with Israel
US Imposes economic sanctions against Iran
US pulls out of Somalia
Nigeria Expelled from Commonwealth due to
Human Rights Abuses
United Nations intervenes in Bosnian Civil
War and cease fire after peace agreement War ends
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs near
Kobe, Japan, killing 6,433 people
Terrorists release Sarin nerve Gas
at Kasumigaseki station killing 12 and sending over 5,000 to hospital
The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking
firm, Barings Bank collapses after a securities broker Nick Leeson
has lost $1.4 billion by speculating on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
In New York City, more than 170 countries
decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely
and without conditions
Russia is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake
killing at least 2000 people
An unprecedented heat wave strikes
the Midwestern United States Temperatures exceed 104°F in the afternoon
for 5 straight days. At least 3000 people die, 750 in Chicago, Illinois
alone.
Volcanic eruption in the island of
Montserrat
Bosnian Serbs Take control of the City
Srebrenica from Peacekeeping forces and perform the worst case of Ethnic
Cleansing since the second World War killing 7,000 Muslim men and raping
hundreds of Muslim Women.
NATO bombing campaign against Serb
artillery positions in Bosnia Leads to a Peace agreement
The Ebola virus kills 244 Africans
in Kikwit, Zaire in Central Africa.
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin
is mortally wounded by a right-wing Israeli gunman.
OJ Simpson is found innocent
Federal workers were sent home when
there is no Money to Pay Federal Workers during budget deadlock
Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for the
first time
Nerve Gas put in Tokyo Subway injures
thousands
Steve Fossett Becomes the first person
to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon
Major League Baseball players
end a 232-day strike
Popular Culture 1995
Popular Films
Toy Story, first
ever wholly computer generated film
Batman Forever
Apollo 13
Pocahontas
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
GoldenEye
Casper
Jumanji
Die Hard With a Vengeance
Braveheart
Popular Musicians
Supergrass
Deep Blue Something
Weezer
Smashing Pumpkins
Rage Against The Machine
Van Halen
Whitney Houston
Mariah Carey
Alanis Morissette
Madonna
Garth Brooks
Blues Traveler
Janet Jackson
Technology 1995
Windows 95 released
by Microsoft
JavaScript was first introduced and deployed
Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting
a record for 438 days in space.
The US Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the
Russian Mir space station for the first time
DVD, optical disc storage media format, is
announced.
In southern France a network of caves
are discovered that contain paintings and engravings that are 17,000
to 20,000 years old.
