Eiffel Tower Opens & Johnstown Flood | The Day the World Looked Up and One Town
On May 31, 1889, Paris opened the Eiffel Tower — the tallest structure ever built, a monument to human ambition and the age of steel. On the same date, in the same year, a dam owned by a wealthy hunting club burst above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing 2,209 people in one of the deadliest disasters