Weddings in History
- 1914 Agatha Miller (later best selling detective author) marries aviator Archibald Christie
Wedding of Interest
1917 Famous pilot Jimmy Doolittle (21) weds high school sweetheart Josephine E. Daniels
Jimmy Doolittle
Wedding of Interest
1935 Chemist Percy Lavon Julian weds sociologist Anna Roselle Johnson
Percy Lavon Julian
Wedding of Interest
1936 Paleoanthropologist Mary Nicol (23) weds archaeologist Louis Leakey (33) in England
Mary Leakey
Louis Leakey
Wedding of Interest
1949 Linguist Noam Chomsky (21) weds Carol Doris Schatz (19)
Noam Chomsky
- 1981 Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa & Lisa Evers marry
Wedding of Interest
1986 President of Indonesia Joko Widodo (25) weds Iriana (23) in Solo, Central Java
Joko Widodo
December in History
'Good Sport' in The Trenches
Prime Minister's son, Raymond Asquith tells his wife of life and death on the battlefront in World War I on this day in 1915.
December 21, 1915
Business a Rocky Road for Hansom Cab Pioneer
Architect and inventor Joseph Hansom was a man of vision who somehow found it impossible to turn his great ideas into money-making ventures.
December 23, 1834
The Day Murdoch Spoilt the Queen's Christmas
Queen Elizabeth II made the first live Christmas Day broadcast of her reign on December 25, 1952. Forty years later a pre-recorded message would be leaked.
December 25, 1952
'Hitler Will Have to Break Us or Lose the War'
The German Luftwaffe were hammering the British RAF until a furious and frustrated Hitler changed the plan and possibly the outcome of the war.
December 29, 1940