HISTORY At A Glance

TODAY is Wednesday, July 29, the 211th day of 2020. There are 155 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1948 Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the

1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.

1967 During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.

1980 Iran adopts a new “holy” flag after the Islamic Revolution.

1981 A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.

1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).

2005 Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris. 2010 An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.

2013 Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-prèsMarnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.

2015 Microsoft launches Windows 10 operating system.