Weddings & Divorces in History on August 18

1572 Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) marries his cousin Margaret of Valois in Paris

1782 Romantic Age poet and artist William Blake (24) marries Catherine Boucher, 5 years his junior, in St. Mary's Church, Battersea, London.

2000 Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (57) weds former congressional aide Calista Bisek (34) in Alexandria, Virginia