January 10 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
January 11 - Massive (200,000) demonstration in favor of Lithuanian independence.
January 13 - Douglas WilderLawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American politician. He is the first African-American to have been elected governor of a U. state 1, serving as Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He is currently Mayor- elect of Richmond, Virgini becomes the first elected African AmericanAfrican Americans also known as Afro- Americans or black Americans comprise an ethnic group in the United States of America whose dominant ancestry is from Sub-Saharan West Africa. Many African Americans also claim European, Native American, or Asian ance governor as he takes office in RichmondRichmond is the capital of Virginia, a state (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia of the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 197,790. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities it is an inde, VirginiaVirginia is one of the original 13 states of the United States that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution and is generally classified as part of the South. Its official name is the Commonwealth of Virginia it is one of four Commonwealth.
January 15January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 350 days remaining (351 in leap years). Events 1559 Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1582 Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland. 1759 The British Museu - Thousands storm the StasiThis article is about Stasi the secret police of East Germany. See Commission Stasi for other meaning''. The Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit ( German for Ministry for State Security), commonly known by the abbreviation Stasi was the main security ( secre HQ in Berlin in an attempt to view their records
January 18January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 347 days remaining (348 in leap years) Events 300-1899 350 General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor. 474 Leo II becomes briefly Byzantine emper:
Former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother Peggy McMartin Buckey are acquitted in a Los Angeles, California court of 52 child molestation charges.
March 15 - Gulf War: Iraqis hang British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. Daphne Parish , a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice
March 18 - 12 paintings, collectively worth $100 million, are stolen by two thieves posing as police officers from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. This is the largest art theft in US history and the paintings (as of 2003) have not been recovered
April 7 - Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal but the convictions were later reversed after an appeal
May 19 - British agriculture Minister John Gummer feeds a hamburger to his 5-year-old daughter to counter rumours about the spread of Mad cow disease and its transmission to humans
May 20 - The first post- Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania
October 5 - After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days ( Friday, January 3, 1840 - Friday, October 5, 1990), The Heraldbroadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. Founded in 1840 as The Port Phillip Herald, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper The Sun News-Pictorial and the first issue of the new Herald Sun, described by owner Rupert Murdoch as "The world's first 24-hour newspaper", with morning and afternoon editions, is published on the 8th.