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.
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