Session 4.10 Notes Index Session 5.1
24TH SEPTEMBER 1995
Israel and the PLO agree to extend self-rule to most of the West Bank.
29TH SEPTEMBER 1995
The European Court of Human Rights condemns the killing of three IRA terrorists by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988.
1ST OCTOBER 1995
Metrication Day occurs. From now on all British pre-packed food must be sold in metric units.
2ND OCTOBER 1995
The French test a nuclear weapon in the Pacific, having first surveyed the area in great detail to ensure that, for example, no giant monsters will be released by the blast. Riots in Tahiti by protestors destroy the airport there.
3RD OCTOBER 1995
O.J. Simpson is released after a unanimous not guilty verdict.
4TH OCTOBER 1995
Pope John Paul II begins a whirlwind four-day tour of the USA.
7TH OCTOBER 1995
Tory MP Alan Howarth defects to Labour.
16TH OCTOBER 1995
The Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to Washington D.C.
18TH OCTOBER 1995
Racehorse Red Rum dies.
20TH OCTOBER 1995
The Secretary-General of NATO resigns.
30TH OCTOBER 1995
A referendum rejects independence for Quebec. The Premier of Quebec resigns.
4TH NOVEMBER 1995
Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated in Tel Aviv by Yigal Amir, a Jewish extremist.
10TH NOVEMBER 1995
Eleven human rights activists are executed in Nigeria. Nigeria is suspended from the Commonwealth.
19TH NOVEMBER 1995
Lech Walesa is defeated in the Polish Presidential elections.
20TH NOVEMBER 1995
Princess Diana gives a damning interview with the BBCs Panorama program.
24TH NOVEMBER 1995
Irish voters approve an end to the constitutional ban on divorce in Ireland.
28TH NOVEMBER 1995
In a breakthrough in the Northern Ireland peace process, all aides agree to all-party talks.
1ST DECEMBER 1995
Nick Leeson, the man largely responsible for the fall of Barings Bank, is sentenced to six years in prison in Singapore.
15TH DECEMBER 1995
EU leaders agree to call the new single currency the Euro.
17TH DECEMBER 1995
The Communists come first in Russian parliamentary elections.
20TH DECEMBER 1995
A house move stalls Congress-White House negotiations to avert the shutdown of the U.S. Government.
29TH DECEMBER 1995
Tory MP Emma Nicholson defects to the Liberal Democrats.
3RD JANUARY 1996
The U.S. budget crisis is in its fourth month.
Global warming climbs to record levels.
6TH JANUARY 1996
Three tickets share a National Lottery win of £42 million.
President Clinton approves the resumption of many government operations.
7TH JANUARY 1996
The worst blizzards in seventy years sweep across the north-eastern USA, killing over 100 people.
8TH JANUARY 1996
Francois Mitterrand dies of cancer aged 79.
9TH JANUARY 1996
Chechen rebels capture two thousand Russians.
17TH JANUARY 1996
Sheik sentenced to life for his part in a bomb plot in the U.S.
18TH JANUARY 1996
Costas Simitis is elected as the new Prime Minister of Greece.
19TH JANUARY 1996
Kevin and Ian Maxwell are cleared of fraud charges.
21ST JANUARY 1996
Yasser Arafat is elected President of Palestine.
23RD JANUARY 1996
The trial of Yigal Amir, the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin, begins.
26TH JANUARY 1996
The U.S. Senate ratifies a major arms reduction treaty.
29TH JANUARY 1996
France announces the end of its Pacific nuclear tests.
1ST FEBRUARY 1996
Today.