Charles and Diana wed
July 29, 1981
At St. Paul's Cathedral, the thirty-two-year-old Prince of Wales married the twenty-year-old Lady Diana Spencer before a global television audience of seven hundred fifty million. The wedding gown had a twenty-five-foot train. It looked like a fairy tale, and it would end in divorce, tabloid siege, and a Paris tunnel crash sixteen years later.
In context
Also in 1981 (6 other events on record)
- AIDS first reported · North America · Disaster
- IBM PC launches · North America · Technology
- Sadat assassinated · Middle East · Politics
- Reagan shot · North America · Politics
- Pope shot in St. Peter's Square · Europe · Religion
- Iran hostages released · Middle East · Politics
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