What Happened In May 1995 - Historical Events 1995 May

Historical Events for May, 1995

1st » Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
2nd » During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces Zagreb rocket attack called fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
11th » More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
13th » Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
18th » Shawn Nelson, 35, steals a tank from a National Guard Armory in San Diego, destroying cars and other property and is shot to death by police after immobilizing the tank.
23rd » The first version of the Java (programming language) or Java programming language is released.
27th » In Culpeper, Virginia, the actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
28th » The Russian town of Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast or Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.

2nd » Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
4th » Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (b. 1922)
5th » Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
6th » Noel Brotherston, Irish footballer (b. 1956)
6th » Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Portuguese woman who claimed to be the daughter of Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1907)
7th » Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910)
8th » Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)
12th » Mia Martini, Italian singer (b. 1947)
14th » Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
15th » Eric Porter, English actor (b. 1928)
17th » Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1912)
18th » Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
18th » Alexander Godunov, Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
18th » Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist (b. 1911)
18th » Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
21st » Les Aspin, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1938)
24th » Harold Wilson, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
25th » Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
30th » Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (b. 1912)
30th » Lofty England, English-Austrian engineer (b. 1911)
30th » Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)