July 18

Today's Weddings & Divorces in History

Famous Weddings

1922 British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple's daughter Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret's in Westminster, London

1933 Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (38) weds broadway singer Hannah Williams (22)

1938 Physicist and Nobel laureate John Bardeen (30) weds Jane Maxwell

1959 Actress Louise Fletcher (25) weds producer Jerry Bick (36)

1976 Country singer Tammy Wynette (34) weds real-estate mogul Michael Tomlin

1992 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith
1992 Helen Windsor, daughter of British Duke and Duchess of Kent weds art dealer Timothy Taylor at Windsor Castle

1992 Singers Whitney Houston (28) & Bobby Brown (23) marry

1994 "The Cranberries" lead singer Dolores O'Riordan (22) weds Don Burton (32) in Ireland

1998 Nelson Mandela marries 3rd wife Graça Machel on his 80th birthday

1999 Miami Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson (56) weds longtime girlfriend Rhonda Rookmaaker (45) in the Florida Keys

2012 WWE wrestler John Cena (35) divorces Elizabeth Huberdeau (33) due to irretrievably broken marriage after 3 years of getting married