What happened onFebruary 20, 1995Monday Week 8

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The World in 1995 the year the world logged on

Only about 1 in every 350 people on Earth used the internet in 1995. In a packed 60,000-seat stadium, that would be fewer than 200 fans.

Life back then

Free AOL disks kept arriving in the mail, offering a few hours online if you were willing to tie up the phone line. CDs had taken over from cassettes, and video shops were packed on Friday nights. In Britain, Blur and Oasis put out singles on the same day in August and the chart race made the evening news. In America people queued at midnight to buy Windows 95, and a new site called Amazon started selling books out of a garage near Seattle.

The year in 8 events

• 🕯️Jan 17 A huge earthquake hits Kobe, Japan. More than 6,000 people die.
• 🏦Feb 26 Barings, Britain's oldest bank, collapses after one trader in Singapore loses more than £800 million.
• 🕯️Mar 20 A cult releases sarin gas on the Tokyo subway at rush hour. Thirteen people die and thousands need treatment.
• 🕯️Apr 19 A truck bomb destroys a federal building in Oklahoma City. 168 people die.
• 🕯️Jul 11 Bosnian Serb forces overrun the town of Srebrenica. About 8,000 men and boys are killed.
• 💻Aug 24 Windows 95 goes on sale. Stores open at midnight for the crowds.
• ⚖️Oct 3 A jury finds O. J. Simpson not guilty of murder. Much of America stops to watch the verdict.
• 🕊️Dec 14 The Dayton peace agreement is signed in Paris, ending the war in Bosnia.

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