Weddings & Divorces in History on April 27

1597 Astronomer Johannes Kepler marries widow Barbara Müller

1862 Chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (28) weds Feozva Nikitichna Leshcheva at Nikolaev Engineering Institute's church in Saint Petersburg, Russia

1985 Police violence victim Rodney King (20) weds Dennetta Lyles

1927 Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi (53) divorces Beatrice O'Brien after 22 years of marriage