Portal:Current events/January 1995

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January 1995 was the first month of that common year. The month, which began on a Sunday, ended on a Tuesday after 31 days.

Portal:Current events[edit]

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from January 1995.

January 1, 1995 (1995-01-01) (Sunday)
January 2, 1995 (1995-01-02) (Monday)
January 3, 1995 (1995-01-03) (Tuesday)
  • Former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry is re-elected to office after an absence of four years.
  • Lawyers for British mass murderer Fred West ask for her release based on her inability to get a fair trial due to the publicity of her husband's suicide.
  • Two Australian journalists, working for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Chechnya, are held hostage by Russian troops for 24 hours before being released.
  • English bowler, Darren Gough, picks up six wickets against Australia in the Third Test of the Ashes series in Sydney, Australia.
January 4, 1995 (1995-01-04) (Wednesday)
  • A seven-week old baby elephant recovers in a Kenyan animal hospital after being injured in a stampede which separated it from its mother.
  • Prince Charles and the Duchess of York holiday in the Swiss Alps with their children.
January 5, 1995 (1995-01-05) (Thursday)
  • Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders a halt to the bombing raids on the capital of Chechnya.
  • Prince Charles is photographed kissing his children's nanny on the Swiss ski slopes.
January 6, 1995 (1995-01-06) (Friday)
  • A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines. Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators find a bomb factory, a laptop computer, and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, is arrested one month later.
January 9, 1995 (1995-01-09) (Monday)
  • Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
January 16, 1995 (1995-01-16) (Monday)
January 17, 1995 (1995-01-17) (Tuesday)
January 24, 1995 (1995-01-24) (Tuesday)
January 25, 1995 (1995-01-25) (Wednesday)
January 30, 1995 (1995-01-30) (Monday)
January 31, 1995 (1995-01-31) (Tuesday)
  • U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Stormont Fire (Doyle Report)".
  2. ^ "Prodigy Sees Quick Growth From Internet Web Service". The New York Times. January 31, 1995.
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