Weddings in History
Samuel Gompers
1867 Labor union leader Samuel Gompers (17) weds co-worker Sophia Julian (16) in Brooklyn, New York
Konrad Adenauer
1904 German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (28) weds Emma Weyer at St. Stephan Catholic Church in Lindenthal, Germany
Bugsy Siegel
1929 Mobster Bugsy Siegel (23) weds childhood sweetheart Esta Krakower
Neil Armstrong
1956 Science student later astronaut Neil Armstrong marries fellow student Janet Elizabeth Shearon in Wilmette, Illinois