For my thirtieth birthday in April I shared 30 Things that happened in 1985. A lot of us who are close to or just over 30 felt a little old but enjoyed a look back. So I thought it would be fun to see what was going on 20 years ago as well, let's hop in the time machine and head back to 1995.
- Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980) on January 1, 1995
- Truck bomb devastates Oklahoma City Federal Building killing 168 people
- Clueless came out summer of 1995, making all of us use terms like "whatever" and "as if" until it drove our parents nuts.
- OJ Simpson is found innocent in the double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
- United Nations intervenes in Bosnian Civil War and cease fire after peace agreement War ends
- Toy Story first ever wholly computer generated film
- Windows 95 released by Microsoft
- American dance phenom Ginger Rogers passes away at the age of 84
- In addition to saying good bye to the Far Side we also said goodbye to our good friends "Calvin & Hobbes"
- The Soup Nazi and his catch phrase "No Soup For You!" came into our living rooms and hearts.
- Heather Whitestone, Miss Alabama, becomes the first deaf Miss America.
- The Rock and Roll Hall of fame opened in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Pocahontas is released and changes my childhood.
- In southern France a network of caves are discovered that contain paintings and engravings that are 17,000 to 20,000 years old.
- Mississippi votes to ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned slavery in 1865. Unfortunately because of a paperwork oversight was never sent to the Office of the Federal Register and therefore never made official until 2013.
- On May 27 Superman actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Virginia.
- The internet officially becomes totally open for commercial traffic after the National Science Foundation Network is decommissioned.
- Hello DVDs ... goodbye VHS.
- Happy birthday to Kendall Jenner.
- The last episode of Full House aired on May 23, 1995
- Pop star Selena is murdered by friend and manager, Yolanda Saldívar.
- 90's cartoons are changed forever (at least in my opinion!) with the debut of the ever hilarious, never successful "Pinky & The Brain"
- E-Bay was born.
- Alanis Morisette took home a Grammy for album of the year for her smash hit album Jagged Little Pill.
- Tommy Lee, Mötley Crüe drummer, marries Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson on a beach in Cancún, Mexico.
- The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto on September 19.
- Sony Playstation is released in North America.
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