Weddings in History
- 1161 Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos marries Princess Maria of Antioch in the Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, with chariot races to celebrate in the Hippodrome
- 1914 Agatha Miller (later best selling detective author) marries aviator Archibald Christie
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1917 Famous pilot James Doolittle (21) weds high school sweetheart Josephine E. Daniels
Jimmy Doolittle
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1935 Chemist Percy Lavon Julian weds sociologist Anna Roselle Johnson
Percy Lavon Julian
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1936 Paleoanthropologist Mary Nicol (23) weds archaeologist Louis Leakey (33) in England
Mary Leakey
Louis Leakey
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1949 Linguist Noam Chomsky (21) weds Carol Doris Schatz (19)
Noam Chomsky
- 1981 Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa & Lisa Evers marry
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1986 President of Indonesia Joko Widodo (25) weds Iriana (23) in Solo, Central Java
Joko Widodo