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March 1995 was the third month of that common year. The month, which began on a Wednesday, ended on a Friday after 31 days.

Portal:Current events

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from March 1995.

March 1, 1995 (1995-03-01) (Wednesday) Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as President of Uruguay for his second term. Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy. In Moscow, Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman. The first Yahoo! Search interface is founded. United States marines lead the evacuation of the last peacekeepers from Mogadishu, Somalia. The United States Navy finds that a mechanical fault caused the crash of an F-14 fighter plane in October 1994. Rival Kurdish factions blame each other for a car bomb blast in Iraq. Peter Kerry, the English school boy who took his father's passport and credit cards and flew to Malaysia, arrives back in Britain. March 2, 1995 (1995-03-02) (Thursday) Nick Leeson is arrested in Singapore for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank. Mayhem, gunfire, and looting at Mogadishu Airport accompanied the departure of the United Nations Forces after their failed peacekeeping mission. South African police raid Winnie Mandela's home after allegations that she accepted financial kickbacks over contract awards for low cost housing. A funeral is held in Denver, Colorado for policeman, Sean Lynagh, who was shot while trying to stop a car theft. Barings Bank trader Nicholas Leeson is detained at Frankfurt Airport. The Japanese city of Kobe is shaken by an earthquake. Sheryl Crow and Tony Bennett win honours at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Soccer: Tottenham Hotspurs player Ronny Rosenthal scores a hat trick to defeat Southampton in the fifth round of the FA Cup. March 3, 1995 (1995-03-03) (Friday) In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends. March 6, 1995 (1995-03-06) (Monday) On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show ("Same-Sex Crushes") in the United States, Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show. March 12, 1995 (1995-03-12) (Sunday) The Gazi Quarter riots occur in Sultangazi (then Gaziosmanpaşa), Istanbul, and Turkey. A few days later, riots break out in Ümraniye, Istanbul and Kızılay, Ankara as well. March 13, 1995 (1995-03-13) (Monday) David Daliberti and William Barloon, Americans working for a military contractor in Kuwait, are arrested after straying into Iraq. March 14, 1995 (1995-03-14) (Tuesday) Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the Soyuz TM-21), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. March 16, 1995 (1995-03-16) (Thursday) Mississippi ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The amendment was nationally ratified in 1865. March 20, 1995 (1995-03-20) (Monday) Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on 5 subway trains in Tokyo, killing 13 and injuring 6,252. March 22, 1995 (1995-03-22) (Wednesday) Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space. March 24, 1995 (1995-03-24) (Friday) For the first time in 26 years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland. March 26, 1995 (1995-03-26) (Sunday) The Schengen Agreement, easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries. March 30, 1995 (1995-03-30) (Thursday) A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of Japan. March 31, 1995 (1995-03-31) (Friday) Murder of Selena: Mexican American Tejano pop singer Selena is shot and killed at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas, by her former employee, Yolanda Saldívar. TAROM Flight 371 from Bucharest to Brussels crashes shortly after take off killing all 60 people on board.

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