Today is the 210th day of 2020. There are 156 days left in the year.TODAY HIGHLIGHT1976: An earthquake kills more than 240,000 people and almost completely destroys the city of T'ang-shan in north-eastern China.�OTHER EVENTS1540: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex and King Henry VIII's chief minister, is executed in England for treason on the same day Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
