Half a pickled cow won artist Damien Hirst the coveted Turner Prize
and Cindy Crawford became the world's highest earning model, raking
in a huge 6.5 million dollars.
In May written tests for learner drivers were announced by the UK government, to come into force in July 1996.
Bill Gates' company Microsoft launched Windows 95 ready to take
over the world, meanwhile another business man, financial dealer
Nick Leeson whose trading led to the collapse of Barings Bank, was
jailed for six and a half years.
In showbiz Robbie Williams disappointed thousands of fans by leaving Take That, Chris Evans took over the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and star of Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin, took his parent to court.
The controversial youth programme The Word was axed by Channel 4 and Sony launched their famous Playstation.
Britain's most notorious female serial killer, Rosemary West, was
sentenced to life imprisonment 10 times over.