Timeline November 1995

Events in November 1995 8

• 1925 – 1995 Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) Died 4 November 1995, aged 70 Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher whose work, including collaborations with Felix Guattari such as Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, became highly influential in continental philosophy and critical theory. He wrote extensively on subjects ranging from cinema to Spinoza. He took his own life after years of severe respiratory illness.
• 1932 – 1995 Louis Malle (1932-1995) Died 23 November 1995, aged 63 Louis Malle was a French film director known for a wide-ranging body of work including Au Revoir les Enfants, My Dinner with Andre, and Atlantic City. He worked across French and American cinema and was married to actress Candice Bergen. He received numerous international awards over a four-decade career.
• 1995 Pentium Pro — the architecture that powers servers Intel introduces the Pentium Pro in November 1995 — the first of Intel's P6 microarchitecture processors, optimised for 32-bit server workloads with out-of-order execution. The Pentium Pro is the foundation of the Pentium II, Pentium III and Pentium M architectures that will dominate the next decade. Intel also launches the USB standard in 1996 — a collaboration with Microsoft, Compaq and others that replaces the tangle of serial and parallel ports on PCs with a universal connector.
• 1995 Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Israeli prime minister shot by right-wing extremist Yitzhak Rabin was shot by Yigal Amir, a far-right extremist opposed to the Oslo peace process, after a peace rally in Tel Aviv. He died from his wounds shortly afterward. The killing shook the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and Israeli politics for years.
• 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa executed in Nigeria Environmental activist hanged after disputed trial Nigerian writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight other Ogoni activists, was hanged after a trial widely condemned as unfair by human rights groups. He had campaigned against environmental damage from oil extraction in the Niger Delta. The executions triggered Nigeria's suspension from the Commonwealth.
• 1995 GoldenEye — Pierce Brosnan After a six-year hiatus caused by legal disputes and studio changes, Bond returns with Pierce Brosnan — widely considered the most perfectly cast actor in the role. The Cold War is over; the franchise must reinvent itself. GoldenEye does so spectacularly, with a tense opening, a brilliant villain in Sean Bean, and Judi Dench making her debut as M. Budget: $60 million. Box office: $356.4 million.
• 1995 Dayton Peace Accords initialed Agreement ends the Bosnian War Leaders of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia initialed a peace agreement at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia. The accords were formally signed in Paris the following month. They established the political structure of postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina that remains largely in place today.
• 1995 Toy Story #1 film of 1995 — $373m worldwide Directed by John Lasseter at Pixar. The first fully computer-animated feature film. Woody and Buzz Lightyear compete for a child's affection.