Timeline Sunday 1 January 1995

Events on Sunday 1 January 1995 9

• 1995 1995: Michael Schumacher Benetton Schumacher won his second consecutive title with Benetton before moving to Ferrari with a mission to restore the team to championship glory.
• 1995 Braveheart Played Smythe, a vicious English soldier, in Mel Gibson's Braveheart, in a performance remembered for its unsettling intensity.
• 1995 EU Accession Joining the Union Austria officially became a member of the European Union alongside Finland and Sweden.
• 1995 High Life Released High Life, which won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
• 1995 Imagination Library Founded Launched the Imagination Library through her Dollywood Foundation, initially providing free books to children in her home county of Sevier, Tennessee. The programme would eventually expand to five countries and distribute nearly 308 million books to children worldwide.
• 1995 New Partnership with Kazakova After Mishkutionok's retirement, formed a new partnership with Oksana Kazakova, again under Moskvina's coaching. They won the 1996 European Championship in their first season together.
• 1995 President of Toyota Named president of Toyota Motor Corporation, the first person from outside the founding Toyoda family to hold the position in 28 years. His management credo was 'not changing is evil' — a direct challenge to Toyota's sometimes conservative corporate culture.
• 1995 – 1997 Return to Japan and Underground Returned to Japan in 1995, prompted by two events: the devastating Kobe earthquake in January and the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in March. Feeling a moral obligation to engage with Japanese society, he interviewed survivors of the attack for Underground (1997), his first major work of non-fiction.
• 1995 World Trade Organization established New body succeeds GATT to govern global trade The World Trade Organization formally came into being, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as the main body overseeing international trade rules. Based in Geneva, it was given stronger powers to settle trade disputes between member states. It quickly became a central, and often contested, institution of globalization.