Editing 1995 (section)

===January===
* [[January 1]]
** The [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) is established to replace the [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] (GATT).
** [[Austria]], [[Finland]] and [[Sweden]] join the [[European Union]].
* [[January 9]] – [[Valeri Polyakov]] completes 366 days in space while aboard then ''[[Mir]]'' space station, breaking a duration record.<ref>{{cite book |author=A. W. Jones |title=Innovations in Astronomy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4xcbAQAAIAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-114-4 |page=70}}</ref>
* [[January 10]]–[[January 15|15]] – The [[World Youth Day 1995]] festival is held in [[Manila|Manila, Philippines]], culminating in 5 million people gathering for John Paul II's concluding mass in [[Quirino Grandstand]].
* [[January 17]] – The 6.9  [[Great Hanshin earthquake]] strikes the southern [[Hyōgo Prefecture]] of Japan with a maximum [[Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale|Shindo]] of 7, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
* [[January 25]] – [[Norwegian rocket incident]]: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at [[Andøya]], Norway, is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
* [[January 31]] – [[Mexican peso crisis]]: U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] invokes emergency powers to extend a $20&nbsp;billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.