The first WrestleMania is held in Madison Square Garden in New York.

Texas is readmitted to the Union following the Reconstruction Era.

The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run.

The Crimean War begins as France and Britain declare war on Russia.

Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon) is put in quarantine and remains there for the rest of her life.

The Schengen Agreement comes into effect.

The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.

German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome in what was known as the Ardeatine massacre.