Weddings & Divorces in History on September 25

Weddings in History

Nathan Bedford Forrest

1845 Confederate army Nathan Bedford Forrest (24) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Mary Ann Montgomery (18) in Hernando, Mississippi

Calamity Jane & Wild Bill Hickok

1873 Frontiersman and gunfighter Hickok">Wild Bill Hickok supposedly marries Calamity Jane according to the latter's daughter (disputed)

Robert Borden

1889 Prime Minister of Canada Robert Borden (34) weds Laura Bond

Bonnie Parker

1926 Outlaw Bonnie Parker (15) weds Roy Thornton

Mikhail Gorbachev

1953 Statesman Mikhail Gorbachev (22) weds Raisa Maximovna (21) at a Komsomol wedding ceremony

  • 1959 Cosmopolitan founder Helen Gurley Brown (37) weds theater producer David Brown (43)

Danielle Steel

1965 Novelist Danielle Steel (18) weds banker Claude-Eric Lazard

  • 2010 Charlie Sheen's daughter Cassandra Estévez (25) weds Casey Huffman (27) in Santa Barbara, California