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World events
• The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established Jan. 1 to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). • President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse Jan. 31. • Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on 5 subway trains in Tokyo on March 20, killing 13
and injuring 5,510. 11 of the principal activists are hanged in 2018. • Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns March 22 after setting a record for 438 days in outer space. • Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program July 1, but denies weaponization. • Units of the Army of Republika Srpska, under the command of General Ratko Mladic, enter Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 11 with little resistance from Dutch peacekeepers of the United Nations Protection Force, going on to kill thousands of Bosniak men and boys and rape many women.
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• President Clinton announces the restoration of United States–Vietnam relations July 11, 20 years after the Vietnam War. • The NATO bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb artillery positions begins Aug. 30 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, continuing into September. • Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally Nov. 4 in Tel Aviv. • The presidents of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia sign a peace treaty Dec. 14 in Paris, ending a three and a half year war.
U.S. News
• Yahoo! is incorporated March 2. • Mississippi ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment on March 16, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The amendment was nationally ratified in 1865.
• Singer-songwriter Selena QuintanillaPérez (known simply as Selena) is murdered March 31 in Corpus Christi, Texas by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar. • House Republicans celebrate passage of most of the Contract with America on April 7. • One hundred sixty eight people, including eight Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19. Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols, set off the bomb. • Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego on May 17. • In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition on May 27. • A United States Air Force F-16 piloted by Capt. Scott O’Grady is shot down June 2 over Bosnia and Herzegovina while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines six days later. • In Washington, D.C., the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated July 27. • Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles breaks the all time consecutive games played record in Major League Baseball on Sept. 6. • The Washington Post
trial of his ex-wife Nicole O.J. Simpson is found not guilty in the murder Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
and The New York Times publish the Unabomber’s manifesto Sept. 19. • O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman on Oct. 3. • The Million Man March is held Oct. 16 in Washington, D.C.. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The National Park Service estimates 400,000 attend. • A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums, and run most government offices with skeleton staff from Nov.14–19. • The first ever full length computer animated feature film “Toy Story” is released Nov. 22 by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures. • The federal government has another shutdown from Dec. 16 to Jan. 6, 1996, as the budget disagreement continues. • The final original “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip is published Dec. 31.
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BORN THIS YEAR: Kendall Jenner, model, reality TV star (Nov. 3). Above left: Jake Elliott, NFL placekicker (Jan. 21); Logan Paul, YouTube personality (April 1); Timothée Chalamet, actor (Dec. 27); Gabby Douglas, gymnast (Dec. 31).
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• “Kiss From a Rose,” Seal • “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?,” Bryan Adams • “Back For Good,” Take That • “You Are Not Alone,” Michael Jackson • “Boombastic,” Shaggy • “Take a Bow,” Modonna
Music
• “Gangsta’s Paradise,” Coolio • “Waterfalls,” TLC • “One Sweet Day,” Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men • “Fantasy,” Mariah Carey
Movies
• “Braveheart” • “Se7en” • “Star Trek: Voyager”
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