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
Jimmy Doolittle
1917 Famous pilot James Doolittle (21) weds high school sweetheart Josephine E. Daniels
Percy Lavon Julian
1935 Chemist Percy Lavon Julian weds sociologist Anna Roselle Johnson
Wedding of Interest
1936 Paleoanthropologist Mary Nicol (23) weds archaeologist Louis Leakey (33) in England
Noam Chomsky
1949 Linguist Noam Chomsky (21) weds Carol Doris Schatz (19)
- 1981 Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa & Lisa Evers marry
Joko Widodo
1986 President of Indonesia Joko Widodo (25) weds Iriana (23) in Solo, Central Java
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