1995
From Harpo's Juke Joint
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February
- 9th - Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. becomes the first black astronaut to walk in space
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March
- 3rd - The United Nations ends its peacekeeping mission in Somalia
- 18th - Michael Jordan returns to basketball (the first time)
- 20th - The sarin gas attack in Tokyo, Japan kills 12 people and injures over 3,000. It remains the deadliest attack on Japanese soil since World War II.
- 26th - Rapper Eazy-E dies of AIDS at age 31
- 31st - Tejano star Selena is murdered by her fan club president, Yolanda Saldivar
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April
- 19th - At 9:02 a.m. on the second anniversary of the Waco Siege, American terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols bomb the Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 people (including 19 children). It is domestic terrorist attack in the history of the United States.
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November
- 4th - Yitzhak Rabin, the 5th prime minister of Israel, is assassinated by Yigal Amir.
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Births
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Deaths
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Film releases
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December
- 22 - Waiting to Exhale

