- September 23
- Argentine national Guillermo "Bill" Gaede is arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on charges of industrial espionage. His sales to Cuba, China, North Korea and Iran are believed to have involved Intel and Advanced Micro Devices trade secrets worth US$10-20 million. [29]
- September 26
- The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, accused of Mafia connections, begins. [29]
- September 27
- (to September 28) Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the Comoros; the local army does not resist. [29]
- October 1
- Ten people are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in 1993. [29]
- In Turkey, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurs. One hundred one people killed, 348 injured, 50,000 homeless and 4,500 houses and buildings damaged or destroyed in the Dinar area. About 600 buildings were destroyed at Evciler. [53]
- October 3
- O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. (He will be found liable in a civil trial in 1997.) [29]
- October 4
- France launches a counter-coup in the Comoros with 600 soldiers. They arrest Bob Denard and his mercenaries and take Denard to France. Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the new interim president. [29]
- October 6
- Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed Extrasolar planet. [29]
- In Southern Sumatera, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. Eighty-four people killed, 2,178 injured, nearly 65,000 homeless and over 18,900 homes and buildings damaged or destroyed in Jambi Province. [53]
- October 9
- Near the coast of Jalisco, Mexico, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs. At least 49 people killed, 100 injured, nearly 1,000 homeless and extensive damage in the states of Colima and Jalisco. Felt by people in high-rise buildings as far as Dallas and Houston, Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [53]
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- October 12
- Walt Disney World in Florida welcomes its 500-millionth guest. [6]
- October 16
- The Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. [29]
- October 24
- A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia. [29]
- October 26
- An avalanche hits the village Flateyri in Iceland, killing 20 people. [29]
- October 28
- Fire breaks out on a crowded metro train in Baku, Azerbaijan killing more than 300 passengers. This is the world's worst metro disaster. [29]
- October 30
- Quebec separatists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada. [29]
- November 1
- Participants in the Yugoslav War begin negotiations in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. [29]
- Intel formally announces and begins shipping the Pentium Pro processor, at speeds of 150 to 200 MHz. The processor incorporates 5.5 million transistors. Prices range from US$974 to $1989. [4]
- November 2
- The Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of Erich Priebke, ex-German SS captain. [29]
- November 3
- At Arlington National Cemetery, U.S. President Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial to the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. [29]
- November 4
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. [1] [29]
- November 7
- In New York City, USA, Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries sells at auction a Hawaii 1851 2-cent stamp and 5-cent stamp, and pair of USA 1851 3-cent Washington stamps on cover for US$2,090,000. [798.3] [1793.14]
- November 10
- With help from Israel and Jordan, United Nations inspector Ritter intercepts 240 Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia. [29]
- In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces. This leads to a global boycott of Shell for its oil exploration on Ogoni land. [29] [240.247] [287.384]
- November 14
- A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the Congress of the United States forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums, and run most government offices with skeleton staff. [29]
- IBM, Apple Computer, and Motorola release the PowerPC Platform specifications, called the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP). It encompasses support for Macintosh System 7, Windows NT, AIX, Solaris, NetWare, and OS/2. Windows 3.x and Windows 95 are excluded. [4]
- November 16
- A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžic and Ratko Mladic with genocide during the Bosnian War. [29]
- November 21
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 (5,023.55) for the first time. [29] [227]
- The Dayton Peace Agreement ends civil war in Bosnia. [29] [700.994]
- November 22
- Rosemary West is sentenced to life for killing ten women and girls, including her own daughter and stepdaughter, after the jury returns a guilty verdict at Winchester Crown Court. The trial judge recommends that she should never be released from prison, making her only the second woman in British legal history to be subjected to a whole life tariff. [29]
- In Egypt, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs. At least eight people killed and 30 injured in the epicentral region. Felt from Sudan to Lebanon. [29] [53]
- Buena Vista Pictures releases the Walt Disney Pictures - Pixar computer animated feature film Toy Story to theaters in the USA. This is the first feature film completely animated by computers. The film was created using 800,000 hours of computing time on 300 Sun Microsystems microprocessors. (Total world gross ticket sales: $362 million (2nd for 1995).) [5] [6] [940]
- November 28
- The Barcelona Treaty is signed by 27 attending nations. [29]
- November 30
- Javier Solana becomes the new NATO General Secretary. [29]
- Official end of Operation Desert Storm. [29]
- December 1
- First recorded educational Virtual field trip. The audioconference live from Antarctica involved interaction between two teachers and two schools in Canterbury, New Zealand (LEARNZ 1995). Schools from all over New Zealand listen in on the audioconference. [29]
- Strikes paralyze France's public sector. [29]
- December 4
- Itzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (1968-73), is assassinated. [1]
- December 7
- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and other executives give a seven-hour briefing speech and workshop in Seattle, Washington, on Microsoft's Internet strategy. Microsoft announces it has licensed Java from Sun Microsystems, and will add extensions to the technology for use with the Microsoft Network. Microsoft announces it has licensed browser technology from Spyglass for Windows 3.1 and the Macintosh, and will also offer Internet Explorer 2.0 on all platforms free of charge. The Microsoft Network will be redesigned as a Web site. [4]
- December 12
- CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31. [1]
- Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres address both houses of US congress. [1]
- December 14
- The Dayton Peace Agreement is signed in Paris, France. [29]
- December 15
- Playboy magazine goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland. [1]
- Because of the "quadruple-witching" option expiration, volume on the New York Stock Exchange hits 638 million shares, the highest single-day volume since October 20, 1987. [29]
- December 16
- Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of UNSCOM, dredge the Tigris River near Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components. [29]
- December 19
- Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles and Diana to divorce. [1]
- December 20
- American Flight 965 crashes in Colombia, 159 die, five survive. [1]
- December 30
- The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2 degrees C is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire in 1895 and 1982. [29]
- December 31
- Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip. [1]
- Year
- Legal gambling in the United States grosses over US$40 billion in revenues. [39]
- Worldwide sales for legal lotteries: US$95 billion. #1 is USA at US$28.7 million, #2 is Germany at US$9.2 billion. [39]
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