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1995 - Mexico bankruptcy and bailout, Japanese banking crisis, Owning the Weather Air Force paper
- Pellegrino Commission in Italy to investigate Gladio
- Documents from Federico Umberto D'Amato (former Mussolini chief of police) discovered, outlining secret state
- For the first time, though not the last, the government of Sudan offers the US all of their files about bin Laden and al-Qaeda. The US turns down the offer.
- Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995 in US
- 1/1995 Philippine police investigating a possible attack on the Pope uncover plans for Operation Bojinka, an al-Qaeda operation connected to 1993 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef. Parts of the plan call for crashing up to 12 hijacked airliners simultaneously into civilian targets. The WTC, CIA headquarters, Pentagon and the Sears Tower are mentioned as specific targets
- 1/4/1995 Newt Gingrich becomes Speaker of the House
- 1/25/1995 Russian military radar misinterpreted a weather rocket launched from Norway as a possible attack on Russia.
- 1/31/1995 a member of Reagan's National Security Council and co-author of his National Security Directives, Howard Teicher, signed a sworn affidavit describing Reagan's secret arming of Iraq.
- 2/9/1995 Mexico: the federal government suddenly announces arrest warrants for those it accuses of being the "top Zapatista leadership", unilaterally breaking the cease-fire, and launches a vast military offensive against the EZLN
- 3/15/1995 In unpublicized sessions before the President's Committee on Radiation, New Orleans therapist Valerie Wolf introduces two of her patients who have uncovered memories of being part of extensive CIA brainwashing programs as young children
- 4/17/1995 Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara reveals his early doubts about Vietnam War in upcoming memoirs
- 4/17/1995 Clinton signs an executive order today overhauling government secrecy rules and requiring
- 4/19/1995 Oklahoma City bombing at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
- 4/21/1995 Timothy McVeigh arrested
- 5/18/1995 GOP House approved a budget resolution that would balance the budget by 2002; the vote was 238-193.
- 5/22/1955 Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that term-limit laws passed by the states, affecting federal representatives, were unconstitutional.
- 5/23/1995 remains of Murrah Federal Building are demolished
- 6/7/1995 The Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) makes its first decision today regarding JFK assassination documents cited for postponed release.
- 6/23/1995 Wall St Journal reported that Republican Congressional leaders were targeting the Assassination Records Review Board for elimination to save money.
- 6/28/1995 Webster Hubbell sentenced to 21 months for fraud and evasion charges.
- 6/29/1995 New Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick tells a federal board that most of the files compiled by Jim Garrison in his JFK investigation have been "pilfered."
- 7/1995 Monica Lewinsky began her White House internship
- 7/1995 Francois Reyskens, on his way to present evidence against Marc Dutroux, fell under a train.
- 7/11/1995 Clinton announced his decision to restore relations with Vietnam
- 8/4/1995 Under the supervision of Rep. Thomas Bliley, House passes major overhaul of telecommunications laws, relaxing ownership rules and deregulating cable rates.
- 8/1995 Guy Goebels, police inspector investigating Dutroux matter, supposedly shot himself.
- 8/10/1995 The House Banking Committee, chaired by Republican Jim Leach of Iowa, finishes its Whitewater examination, finding no illegalities.
- 8/16/1995 Perry Raymond Russo, star witness in former New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's failed effort to prosecute Clay Shaw for conspiring to assassinate JFK, is found dead at his home in New Orleans.
- 8/18/1995 A grand jury charges James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker with bank fraud in conjunction with questionable loans.
- 8/21/1995 Kenneth Trentadue tortured and murdered in jail in connection with Oklahoma City bombing
- 9/15/1995 NYT reported that Frederic Whitehurst, a special agent assigned to the FBI crime lab, charged that the FBI altered, tampered with or falsified evidence in a number of important cases.
- 9/20/1995 The ARRB discloses the possible existence of a long-sought CIA tape recording made of a caller who identified himself as LHO to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City on October 1, 1963.
- 9/24/1995 OKC first responder Dr. Don Chumley killed in small plane crash
- 9/28/1995 Israel and PLO sign agreement at the White House extending Palestinian rule to most of West Bank.
- 10/1/1995 Rep. Mel Reynolds (D-Ill.) resigns after he's convicted for having sex with a 16-year-old girl.
- 10/3/1995 O.J. Simpson acquitted
- 10/19/1995 House votes to overhaul Medicare, encouraging seniors to enroll in private health plans. Plan stalls in Senate.
- late 1995: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia suffers a severe stroke.
- 10/21/1995 Unocal signs a contract with Turkmenistan to export $8 billion worth of natural gas through a $3 billion pipeline which would go from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan.
- 10/31/1995 ARRB mailed Richard Case Nagell a letter seeking access to documents he claimed to have about a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. The ARRB had also decided to get a sworn deposition from Nagell.
- 11/1/1995 The day after the ARRB's letter was mailed from Washington, D.C., Richard Case Nagell was found dead in the bathroom of his Los Angeles house. The autopsy's conclusion was that he died from a heart attack.
- 11/2/1995 Israel begins handing over police stations to Palestinians in West Bank. Shortly before the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton was arguing with Congress about moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which the Republican leadership favored and the President opposed.
- 11/4/1995 Yitzhak Rabin assassination
- 11/9/1995 In Vietnam, Robert McNamara met with Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. Giap, who was chief strategist for the communist forces, said there was no Tonkin Gulf attack on 8/4/1964; he admitted his navy attacked a US vessel on 8/2/1964.
- 11/13/1995 Clinton vetoes two funding bills he calls "extreme proposals," forcing a six-day shutdown of the federal government. Newt later says he placed a number of troublesome measures in one of the vetoed bills because he felt snubbed by Clinton on the flight back from Rabin's funeral.
- 11/19/1995 Poland: Lech Walesa is narrowly defeated for reelection.
- 11/29/1995 Following reporting by Mother Jones and others, the FEC charges GOPAC, Newt Gingrich's fundraising machine, with campaign finance violations.
- 11/1995 Bruno Tagliaferro found dead after claiming he had a list of people connected to Marc Dutroux
- 12/14/1995 Clinton-brokered peace agreement to end the war in Bosnia signed in Paris.
- 12/22/1995 Oliver Stone's film Nixon premieres, starring Anthony Hopkins.