Mood:
"Technology rises as violence shocks society."
Events: "Oklahoma City bombing occurs and the internet begins mainstream growth."
Events: "Oklahoma City bombing occurs and the internet begins mainstream growth."
- Apr 19: Oklahoma City Bombing – Anti-government extremists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols detonate a massive fertilizer truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
- Jul 11: Srebrenica Massacre – Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladić overrun the UN safe area of Srebrenica, systematically executing over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Europe's worst atrocity since WWII.
- Aug 24: Microsoft Releases Windows 95 – Microsoft officially releases the Windows 95 operating system, introducing the iconic "Start" button, taskbar, and driving mainstream personal computer adoption worldwide.
- Nov 4: Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is fatally shot by a radical right-wing extremist following a massive peace rally in Tel Aviv, severely derailing the Middle East peace process.
- Nov 21: Dayton Accords Initialed – Following intense US-led diplomatic negotiations in Dayton, Ohio, leaders from Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia initial a peace agreement that effectively ends the brutal Bosnian War.
- Dec 15: Treaty of Madrid Establishes Euro – European leaders formally agree on "Euro" as the official name for the new single European currency, paving the way for eventual monetary union.