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1995
Summary
1995 was designated as:
United Nations Year for Tolerance
World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the Information Age. America Online and Prodigy offered access to the World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.
January 1
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union.
January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
January 17 – The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake strikes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
January 25 – Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya, Norway, is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
January 31 – Mexican peso crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a 1.4 billion by speculating on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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