1995 in California

Incumbents

• Governor: Pete Wilson
• Lieutenant Governor:
• * Leo T. McCarthy
• * Gray Davis
• Chief Justice: Malcolm Lucas
• Senate president pro tempore: Bill Lockyer
• Speaker of the Assembly:
• * Willie Brown
• * Doris Allen
• * Brian Setencich

  Events

• January 2 – Pete Wilson is inaugurated for a 2nd term as Governor after winning reelection in the 1994 Gubernatorial election.
• January 24 – Murder trial of O. J. Simpson: The criminal trial of O. J. Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman begins.
• March 2 – Yahoo! is incorporated in Sunnyvale.
• March 27 – 67th Academy Awards: Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump leads the nominations with thirteen, winning six, including Best Picture, Best Director for Zemeckis, and Best Actor for Tom Hanks.
• April 13 – The National Football League approves the Los Angeles Rams's move to St. Louis, Missouri, playing as the St. Louis Rams until relocating back in 2016.
• April 24 – Timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray is killed by Ted Kaczynski in Sacramento, in the final bombing Kaczynski carried out before turning himself in September.
• May 17 – 1995 San Diego tank rampage: Shawn Nelson, a 35-year-old U.S. Army veteran and unemployed plumber, stole an M60A3 Patton tank from a National Guard armory and went on a destructive rampage through the streets of San Diego.
• June 28 – Ted Kaczynski sends a letter to San Francisco Chronicle threatening to detonate an airplane departing from Los Angeles International Airport before sending a letter to The New York Times claiming the scheme was a prank.
• July 11 – The National Football League approves the Las Vegas Raiders's move to Oakland, playing as the Oakland Raiders until relocating back in 2020.
• July 20 – The Regents of the University of California vote to abolish affirmative action.
• October 3 – O.J. Simpson is acquitted in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, causing polarized reactions.
• November 20 – U.S. district judge Mariana Pfaelzer strikes down Proposition 187, an anti-immigration law.
• December 15 – AltaVista is founded in Palo Alto.

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