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    Champagne was invented by a monk! Dom Perignon added sugar and yeast to wine in Champagne, France, in 1688.

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A circus fire in Poland killed 430 people

On the 13th January, 1883, a fire broke out at a circus in Berditschoft, Poland, killing 430 people.

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