Weddings & Divorces in History on January 1

1772 US founding father Thomas Jefferson (30) marries Martha Wayles Skelton (23)

1811 Writer James Fenimore Cooper (21) weds Susan Augusta de Lancey in Mamaroneck, New York

1824 US President James Knox Polk (28) weds Sarah Childress (20) in Murfreesboro

1888 55th UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George (25) weds first wife Margaret Owen

1896 1st Filipino President Emilio Aguinaldo (26) weds first wife Hilaria del Rosario

1940 68th Prime Minister of UK Harold Wilson (23) weds poet Mary Baldwin (23) in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford

1965 Novelist Michael Crichton (22) weds high school sweetheart Joan Radam

1972 Politician Aung San Suu Kyi (26) weds author Michael Aris (25)

1994 Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29)