1995 January
Egon Krenz and six others are indicted for manslaughter in Berlin. As many as 600 people were killed trying to cross the Berlin wall between 1961 and 1989. The Associated Press says 370.
1995 January 12
Qubilah Bahiyah Shabazz, daughter of the late black nationalist leader Malcolm X, is arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota and charged with plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
1995 January 13
Prosecutor Christopher Darden and defense attorney Johnnie Cochran argue over racist language regarding the upcoming testimony of Mark Fuhrman during the O.J. Simpson trial.
1995 January 20
Yasser Arafat is elected President of the Palestinian National Authority with 83% of the votes in the first general free elections for the Palestinian people on its land.
1995 January 24
The O.J. Simpson trial opens in Los Angeles. Prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden deliver opening statements.
1995 January 27
The Russian Federal Assembly bans loans from the Central Bank to the government without its approval.
1995 March 15
Detective Mark Fuhrman, cross-examined by defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, denies using the word "nigger" at any time in the previous ten years. The jury later hears excerpts of audio tapes proving this to be untrue. Fuhrman subsequently refuses to answer questions, citing his Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination.
1995 March 18
Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan announces his return to the NBA after retiring in 1993.
1995 March 25
Boxer Mike Tyson is released from prison after serving three years for a 1992 rape conviction.
1995 April
Saddam Hussein, fearing famine in Iraq, accepts a UN oil-for-food plan that allows Baghdad to sell limited amounts of oil for purchase of food and medicine.
1995 April 19
A huge truck bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah government building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 400 others. The convicted saboteur, Timothy McVeigh, later claimed it was in retaliation for the government attack on the Branch Davidian compound in Texas exactly two years earlier.
1995 April 19
A truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people, and injuring 500. Timothy McVeigh is later convicted of the bombing and sentenced to death.
1995 April 21
H. Patrick Swygert is named president of Howard University, replacing Franklyn G. Jenifer.
1995 May 15
O.J. Simpson, during his trial for murder, struggles to put on a pair of gloves that California prosecutors say were worn by the killer of Simpson's ex-wife Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman. To the embarrassment of prosecutors, the bloody gloves seem not to fit.
1995 May 15
Dow Corning Corp. files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing potentially astronomical expenses from liability lawsuits by victims of asbestosis.
1995 May 16
A CNN poll reports 52% of U.S. respondents said they did not trust their government.
1995 May 27
Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed when he is thrown from his horse during a jumping event in Charlottesville, Virginia.
1995 June
Russian troops are believed to have massacred dozens of villagers in Samashky, Chechnya.
1995 June 2
A U.S. Air Force F-16C is shot down by Bosnian Serbs while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia. The pilot, Captain Scott O'Grady, is rescued six days later.
1995 June 8
U.S. Marines rescue Captain Scott O'Grady, whose F16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
1995 June 14
Chechens terrorists take a number of Russian hostages at Budennovsk.
1995 June 21
The U.S. Senate rejects Dr. Henry Foster Jr.'s bid to become U.S. Surgeon General. Foster, a gynecologist and obstetrician, is rejected due to pressure from anti-abortion groups and Senate Republicans.
1995 June 23
Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine against polio, dies in La Jolla, California, at age 80.
1995 June 25
Warren E. Burger, the 15th chief justice of the United States, dies in Washington D.C. of congestive heart failure at age 87.
1995 June 28
Webster Hubbell, the former No. 3 official at the Justice Department, is sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clients of the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners.
