Portal:Current events/May 1995

May 1995 was the fifth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Monday, ended on a Wednesday after 31 days.

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May 1, 1995 (Monday)

Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.
Croatian forces launch Operation Flash against rebel Serb forces in western Slavonia.
Oriental Pearl Tower, a landmark spot in Shanghai, China, formally open.^{[citation needed]}
Biological father Otakar Kirchner wins a landmark custody case, the Baby Richard case in the Illinois Supreme Court against adoptive parents, Jay and Kim Warburton.
$5 million worth of gold bullion is stolen from Kerry Packer's company Publishing and Broadcasting.
Damon Hill wins the 1995 San Marino Grand Prix in Spain.
Five public housing buildings imploded in Philadelphia, United States.

May 2, 1995 (Tuesday)

Croatia goes to war against the Serbian enclave of Krajina.
A four-month ceasefire ends in Bosnia with Serbs and Muslims ready to continue their civil war.
Hundreds of friends attend a memorial service held in London for English comedian Peter Cook.
The Mafia Godfather Salvatore Riina, known as the "Beast of Sicily", goes on trial in Sicily under massive security, accused of the murder in 1992 of top prosecutor Giovanni Falcone.
21 executives resign two months after the new owners of Barings Bank take over. Former Barings merchant banker, Nick Leeson, remains in a German jail while Singapore seeks his extradition on fraud charges.

May 3, 1995 (Wednesday)

The Clinton administration considers allowing 20,000 Cuban refugees to settle in the United States.
A Serbian attack on the Croatian capital of Zagreb prompts fresh fears of a full scale war in former Yugoslavia.

May 7, 1995 (Sunday)

Finland wins the ice hockey world championship.

May 10, 1995 (Wednesday)

At Vaal Reefs gold mine in Orkney, a runaway locomotive falls into a lift shaft onto an ascending cage and causes it to plunge 1,500 feet (460 m) to the bottom of the 6,900 feet (2,100 m) deep shaft, killing 104.^[1]^[2]

May 11, 1995 (Thursday)

More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.

May 13, 1995 (Saturday)

The 6.6 M_w  Western Macedonia earthquake shakes northwestern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), injuring 25 and causing $450 million in damage.

May 14, 1995 (Sunday)

The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
Team New Zealand wins the America's Cup in San Diego, beating Stars and Stripes 5–0.

May 16, 1995 (Tuesday)

Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.

May 17, 1995 (Wednesday)

Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego.

May 20, 1995 (Saturday)

U.S. President Bill Clinton indefinitely closes part of the street in front of the White House, Pennsylvania Avenue, to vehicular traffic in response to the Oklahoma City bombing.

May 21, 1995 (Sunday)

Pope John Paul II canonizes John Sarkander during his visit to Olomouc, the Czech Republic.

May 24, 1995 (Wednesday)

AFC Ajax wins the UEFA Champions League at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna by defeating A.C. Milan 0–1 by a goal of Patrick Kluivert. This was the third consecutive win of Ajax over Milan that season, ranking Ajax in the fourth place on the list of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners.

May 27, 1995 (Saturday)

The 7.0 M_w  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.
In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.

References[edit]

^ "104 miners are crushed to death when an elevator carrying gold miners plunges to the bottom of a Vaal Reef mineshaft near Orkney". South African History Online. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
^ "Locomotive crushes 105 gold miners". The Independent. Retrieved 27 August 2014.

[1] "104 miners are crushed to death when an elevator carrying gold miners plunges to the bottom of a Vaal Reef mineshaft near Orkney". South African History Online. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.

[indep-2] "Locomotive crushes 105 gold miners". The Independent. Retrieved 27 August 2014.

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