Britain and the World 1995

	1995
Jan1	Frederick West, accused of murdering 12 women and girls in Britain's notorious "House of Horrors" case, was found hanged in Winston Green Prison Birmingham
Jan2	The most distant galaxy yet discovered was found by scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii. It was estimated to be 15 billion light years away.
Jan17	More than 6,400 people were killed after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake jolted Kobe, Japan.
Jan24	The criminal trial of O.J. Simpson began
Feb26	Barings PLC, Britain's oldest investment banking firm, collapsed after Nick Leeson, a 28-year-old securities dealer, lost over $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices.
Mar20	In Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,000 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leaked on five separate subway trains. A secretive religious group, Aum Shinri Kyo was found to be the instigator of the attack.
Mar24	For the first time in twenty years, no British soldiers were patrolling the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Apr19	The worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil occurred when a Ryder truck packed with an explosive-fertilizer compound blew up, gutting the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City and killing 168 people inc 19 children . On 2 June 1997 Timothy McVeigh was found guilty on all counts and was sentenced to death
May7	Jacques Chirac won the French presidential election, beating Socialist opponent Lionel Jospin by a clear margin and ending a 14-year Socialist grip on the French Presidency. He was to remain President until May 2007 when he was replaced by Nicolas Sarkozy.
May13	Alison Hargreaves, a mother of two, becomes only the second person ever to reach the peak of the Mount Everest without oxygen. Tragically, she dies three months later during an attempt on the second-highest peak, K2.
May16	Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinkiriyo cult near Fuji Mountain in Japan. Cult leader Shoko Asahara is found hidden in a ceiling and arrested.
July11	Bosnian Serbs march into Srebrenica, forcing UN Dutch peacekeepers to leave. Thousands of Muslims are forced out of Srebrenica by Bosnian Serbs in an act later described as biggest 'ethnic cleansing' operation since World War II. A massacre follows that beggars belief
July22	Harold Larwood, English fast bowler, died. He spearheaded the attack on Australia's batsmen in the notorious "Bodyline" Ashes Tour in the early 1930s.
Aug17	The first reports emerged that Alison Hargreaves, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen, had been killed by an avalanche on K-2 four days earlier
Sep6	NATO air strikes continue after repeated attempts at a solution with the Serbs fail
Sep26	Trial against former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreaotti begins. He is accused of Mafia connections
Oct3	The jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial found the former football star innocent of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
Oct 17	The bridge to the Isle of Skye opened. The bridge attracted attention due to its controversial road toll scheme (one of the most expensive in the world), which was finally scrapped on 22 December 2004
Nov2	Argentine Supreme Court ordered the extradition to Italy of former SS captain Erich Priebke to face trial for a World War II massacre of prisoners in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome
Nov4	Yigal Amir, who said he was acting on God's orders, assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
Nov16	U.N. tribunal charged Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic with genocide.
Nov18	The Vatican said the Roman Catholic ban on the ordination of women as priests was a definitive, infallible and unquestionable part of the church's doctrine.
Nov22	British housewife Rosemary West was found guilty of killing 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter. She was sentenced to life in prison for each of them.
Dec14	The Dayton Peace Agreement signed in Paris. War in Bosnia formally ends but local conflicts continue.
Dec30	At Altnaharra in the Highland region of Scotland the temperature reaches -27.2C which equals the lowest temperature ever recorded in Great Britain - see 10th January 1982