Weddings in History
- 1469 Crown prince Fernando of Aragon (17) marries heir Princess Isabella of Castile (18), will unite the two Spanish crowns (not officially one country till 1707-16)
Samuel Adams
1749 US revolutionary Samuel Adams (27) weds Elizabeth Checkley
Thomas Carlyle
1826 Historian Thomas Carlyle (30) weds Jane Welsh (25)
Rube Goldberg
1916 Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (33) weds Irma Seeman