January 16: The village of Súðavík in Iceland is hit by an avalanche. January 10: In British football the transfer fee record is broken when Man United sign a £7 million deal, buying striker Andy Cole from Newcastle United. January 9 Russian cosmonaut, Valeri Polyakov sets the record for the longest amount of time a person has been in space completing 366 days. January 2: Using the Keck telescope in Hawaii, scientists discover the most distant galaxy known to man so far (estimated to be 15 billion light years away) He and his wife are due to go on trial for murdering up to 12 women and children (including two of Fred’s daughters),
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January 1: British serial killer, Fred West, is found hanged in his cell at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham. Simpson is found not guilty of murder on October 3rd 1995
You can read below the headline stories of the time, and even browse our 1995 newspaper gifts to order your own piece of history. The Bosnian war, which began earlier in the decade finally ended in December, Pixar produced their first ever film which was released by Disney in November, and Oklahoma was hit by the deadliest terrorist attack on America, before 9/11.Īll these events and more are chronicled below within our timeline of the most newsworthy events of 1995.
The year that brought us the ‘trial of the century’, iconic films, and scientific discoveries 1995 events made their mark on history.