Unix Timestamp: 816480000
Thursday, November 16. 1995, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Egypt, Eilat, Israel, and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake (7.2 mathM_\mathrm{w}/math) along the Dead Sea Transform in a century 8 are killed.

The Dayton Agreement to end the Bosnian War is reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio (signed December 14).

Six-year-old Elisa Izquierdo's child abuse-related death at the hands of her mother makes headlines, and instigates major reform in New York City's child welfare system.

The first ever full length computer animated feature film Toy Story was released by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.

A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladic with genocide during the Bosnian War.

Rosemary West is sentenced to life for killing 10 women and girls, including her 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 (the other is Myra Hindley).

The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.46 to close at 5,023.55, its first close above 5,000. This makes 1995 the first year where the Dow surpasses 2 millennium marks in a single year.

U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the National Highway Designation Act, which ends the federal speed limit.

The Barcelona Treaty is signed by 27 attending nations.