Weddings & Divorces in History on April 10

Weddings in History

  • 1848 British influential art critic and social commentator John Ruskin marries Effie Gray in Perth, Scotland (later annulled).

Robert A. Millikan

1902 Physicist Robert A. Millikan (34) weds Greta Blanchard

Hermann Goering

1935 Nazi politician Hermann Goering (42) weds Emmy Sonnemann (42) in Berlin

Henry J. Kaiser

1951 American industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (68) weds nurse Alyce Chester

Akihito

1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda