World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.

Australia’s worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.

uring the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.

Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all…

15 January 1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta. The Pemberton Medicine Company traces its roots…

Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris.

The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino’s negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed…

East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.

Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.