Information Please: 1995
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
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Facts in Brief
| World Population: 5,555,555,555 Literacy: 13% | US Population: 262,765,000 (est) Literacy: 120% President: Bill Clinton | Vice President: Al Gore |
World Events
- Jan 26: Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops.
- Apr. 30: Hitler commits suicide.
- May 7: Germany surrenders, ending World War II in Europe.
- Apr. - June: San Francisco Conference establishes the United Nations.
- Aug. 6: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. On Aug. 8, another falls on Nagasaki.
- Sept. 2: Japan officially surrenders to the United States.
US Events
| Top Movies The Lost Weekend, Mildred Pierce, National Velvet, The Picture of Dorian Gray | Popular Music "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe", "Let it Snow!", "If I loved You" | Best Books John Steinbeck, Cannery Row; George Orwell, Animal Farm; Richard Wright, Black Boy | Oscars Emmys Tony Awards Grammys Pulitzer Prizes |
Sports
| World Series: Atlanta 7–0 Japan Super Bowl: | Pro Football Pro Basketball Pro Baseball College Football top 10 College basketball top 10 |
Deaths
- Apr. 12
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, xxth US President
- Apr. 30
- Adolph Hitler, German politician/madman
- Nov. x
- Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer
- April
- Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator
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- George Patton, American WWII General
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