What happened in 1995

“Fantasy”

Mariah Carey · 8 weeks at #1 in 1995

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1. Jan 7On Bended KneeBoyz II Men3 wks
2. Jan 28CreepTLC4 wks
3. Feb 25Take A BowMadonna7 wks
4. Apr 15This Is How We Do ItMontell Jordan7 wks
5. Jun 3Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?Bryan Adams5 wks
6. Jul 8WaterfallsTLC7 wks
7. Aug 26Kiss From A RoseSeal1 wk
8. Sep 2You Are Not AloneMichael Jackson1 wk
9. Sep 9Gangsta's Paradise (From "Dangerous Minds")Coolio Featuring L.V.3 wks
10. Sep 30FantasyMariah Carey8 wks
11. Nov 25Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (From "Waiting To Exhale")Whitney Houston1 wk
12. Dec 2One Sweet DayMariah Carey & Boyz II Men5 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 1995; weeks count only those in 1995.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 1Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.
2. Feb 15Kevin Mitnick, the most wanted computer hacker at the time in the U.S., was arrested and charged with computer fraud and wire fraud.
3. Mar 16Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
4. Mar 20The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 14 and wounding over 6,200 people.
5. Mar 31American singer-songwriter Selena, known as the "queen of Tejano music", was murdered by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar, in Corpus Christi, Texas, deeply affecting the Latino community.
6. May 27American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse, leaving him quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.
7. Jul 10Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
8. Jul 11Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins, lasting until 22 July.
9. Aug 10Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
10. Sep 19Industrial Society and Its Future, the manifesto of American domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, was published in The Washington Post almost three months after it was submitted.
11. Oct 3O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
12. Oct 23Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena.
13. Nov 14As a result of budget conflicts between President Bill Clinton and the United States Congress led by Newt Gingrich, the federal government was forced to shut down non-essential services.
14. Nov 22Toy Story, the first feature film created using only computer-generated imagery, was released in theaters in the United States.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Bill Clinton

• UK Prime Minister

  John Major

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Jean Chrétien

• President of France

  François Mitterrand

• German Chancellor

  Helmut Kohl

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Tomiichi Murayama

• President of Russia

  Boris Yeltsin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 1995, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• PoppyAmerican singer and YouTube personality · Jan 1
• Nicola PeltzAmerican actress · Jan 9
• Natalia DyerAmerican actress · Jan 13
• Megan Thee StallionAmerican rapper · Feb 15
• Madison KeysAmerican tennis player · Feb 17
• Haley Lu RichardsonAmerican actress · Mar 7
• Claressa ShieldsAmerican boxer and mixed martial artist · Mar 17
• Logan PaulAmerican YouTuber, actor and wrestler · Apr 1
• Gigi HadidAmerican fashion model and television personality · Apr 23
• KehlaniAmerican singer-songwriter · Apr 24

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.