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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.

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From top to bottom, left to right: The Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people and becomes the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, shaking the nation and prompting new federal anti-terrorism laws; Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv, dealing a severe blow to the Israeli–Palestinian peace process and shocking the world; O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder in one of the most-watched and controversial trials in U.S. history, sparking national debates about race and justice; Windows 95 is released by Microsoft, ushering in a new era of personal computing with the debut of the Start menu and taskbar; the Sampoong Department Store collapse in Seoul kills over 500 people, becoming one of the deadliest modern building failures and exposing severe flaws in construction oversight; the Srebrenica massacre takes place during the Bosnian War, as Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II; the Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing over 6,000 people and causing widespread destruction in one of the country's worst natural disasters of the 20th century; American Airlines Flight 965 crashes into a mountain near Cali, Colombia, killing 151 people and prompting global changes in aviation safety procedures; the Murder of Selena shocks the world as Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is fatally shot by the president of her fan club, cutting short a rising star's life and leaving a lasting cultural legacy.
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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.[1][2] 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.[3]

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April 19: A car bomb explodes outside a Federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168

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Exhumed grave of victims of the July Srebrenica massacre.
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The Taiwan Strait

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Poppy
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Jisoo
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Nicola Peltz
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Danielle Campbell

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Adnan Januzaj
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Joshua Kimmich
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Megan Thee Stallion

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Cierra Ramirez
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Victoria Pedretti

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Logan Paul
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Gigi Hadid
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Melanie Martinez

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Missy Franklin
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Rose Lavelle
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Shira Haas

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Troye Sivan

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Post Malone
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Ada Hegerberg
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Jordyn Wieber
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Luke Shaw
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Lil Uzi Vert

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Dua Lipa
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Andreas Wellinger

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Patrick Mahomes

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Jimin

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Katherine McNamara

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Timothée Chalamet
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Gabby Douglas

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