Weddings in History
William Shakespeare
1582 Playwright and poet William Shakespeare (18) marries Anne Hathaway (26) (date of the marriage license)
Raymond Dart
1936 Australian paleo-anthropologist Raymond Dart (43) weds South African librarian Marjorie Gordon Frew
Wedding of Interest
1938 Chinese politician Mao Zedong (44) weds Jiang Qing (24) in a small private ceremony
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