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A worldwide television audience of around 750 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans using arson, bayonets, sabers, tanks, tear gas, and vomit gas.
The Cape Cod Canal opened.
Born: Isabel, Brazilian princess (died 1921).
French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
Died: Offa of Mercia (born 730).
The Praetorian guard revolts against emperors Balbinus and Pupienus and arrests them.
The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.