Todays History

The Eiffel Tower is opened.

The Treaty of Paris is signed putting an end to the Crimean War.

The Royal Albert Hall is officially opened by Queen Victoria.

France and Britain declare war on Russia starting the Crimean War.

In Melbourne, Australia, a car bomb explodes at the Russell Street Police HQ killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.

The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.

Sir Walter Raleigh is awarded a patent to colonize Virginia.

A fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel in the western Alps of Europe kills 39 people.

The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers in Dunedin, New Zealand carrying the first Scottish settlers.

Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach in California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges were…