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1995

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1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1995th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 995th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1990s decade.

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.

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World population
1995 1990 2000
  World 5,674,380,000 5,263,593,000 410,787,000 6,070,581,000 396,201,000
  Africa 707,462,000 622,443,000 85,019,000 795,671,000 88,209,000
  Asia 3,430,052,000 3,167,807,000 262,245,000 3,679,737,000 249,685,000
  Europe 725,405,000 721,582,000 5,823,000 730,986,000 5,581,000
  Latin America
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481,099,000 441,525,000 39,574,000 520,229,000 39,130,000
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299,438,000 283,549,000 15,889,000 315,915,000 16,477,000
  Oceania 28,924,000 26,687,000 2,237,000 31,043,000 2,119,000
April 19: A car bomb explodes outside a Federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168
April 19: A car bomb explodes outside a Federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168
Exhumed grave of victims of the July Srebrenica massacre.
Exhumed grave of victims of the July Srebrenica massacre.
The Taiwan Strait
The Taiwan Strait

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Poppy
Poppy
Jisoo
Jisoo
Nicola Peltz
Nicola Peltz

03Nobel Prizes

Natalia Dyer
Natalia Dyer
Danielle Campbell
Danielle Campbell
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