Weddings & Divorces in History on August 8

Weddings in History

  • 1502 Jacobus IV of Scotland marries Margaretha Tudor

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

1778 Naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (34) weds Marie Anne Rosalie Delaporte

  • 1810 Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib marries Maaroof, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Baksh, and moves to Delhi.

George Westinghouse

1867 Engineer George Westinghouse (20) weds Marguerite Erskine Walker in Brooklyn, New York

Zhou Enlai

1925 China's Premier Zhou Enlai (27) weds Deng Yingchao (21) in Guangzhou

Ben Bradlee

1942 Journalist Ben Bradlee (20) weds Jean Saltonstall


Divorces in History

Bugsy Siegel

1946 Esta Krakower divorces mobster Bugsy Siegel (40) after 17 years of marriage