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Welcome to 1995


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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.


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