Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Jan 1 68th Prime Minister of UK Harold Wilson (23) weds poet Mary Baldwin (23) in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford

Harold Wilson
- Jan 2 Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer, linguist and academic and outspoken critic of the South African National Party government's Bantu Education policy, marries Priscilla Phyllis Ntantla.
Wedding of Interest
Jan 26 Actor Ronald Raegan (28) weds Academy Award-winning actress Jane Wyman (23) at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Glendale, California

Jane Wyman
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Feb 13 Actress Lana Turner (19) marries bandleader Artie Shaw (29)

Lana Turner
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Feb 18 Molecular biologist Francis Crick (23) weds Ruth Doreen Dodd

Francis Crick
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Mar 7 Comedian Oliver Hardy (48) marries film assistant Virginia Lucille Jones (30)

Oliver Hardy
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Mar 30 Broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite weds Mary Elizabeth Maxwell at the Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church

Walter Cronkite
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Apr 7 Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (21) weds Natalya Reshetovskaya

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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May 5 Actress Mary Martin (26) weds producer Richard Halliday (35)

Mary Martin
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May 25 MLB outfielder Stan Musial (19) weds his high school sweetheart Lillian Labash in Daytona Beach

Stan Musial
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Jun 4 Radio broadcaster Paul Harvey (21) weds radio producer Lynne Cooper

Paul Harvey
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Jun 21 37th US President Richard Nixon (27) weds Pat Ryan (28) at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California

Richard Nixon
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Jul 4 Actress Gertrude Lawrence (42) weds theater owner Richard Aldrich

Gertrude Lawrence
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Jul 31 Actress Loretta Young (27) weds advertising executive Tom Lewis at the chapel of St. Paul's Church in Westwood

Loretta Young
- Aug 25 1st parachute wedding: Reverend Homer Tomlinson marries Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward while all are suspended in parachutes.
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Aug 30 CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace (22) weds Norma Kaphan in Brookline, Massachusetts

Mike Wallace
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Aug 31 "Wuthering Heights" actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds "Gone With The Wind" actress Vivien Leigh (26)

Vivien Leigh

Laurence Olivier
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Aug 31 Football player and coach Vince Lombardi (27) weds Marie Planitz at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Bronx, New York

Vince Lombardi
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Sep 1 Actor Harry Morgan (25) weds Eileen Detchon

Harry Morgan
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Sep 22 "Adventures of Superman" actor George Reeves (26) weds Ellanora Needles at the Church of Our Savior in San Gabriel, California

George Reeves
- Sep 25 "Sullivan's Travels" actress Veronica Lake (18) weds American motion picture art director and set designer John S. Detlie (31)
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Nov 1 Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer (36) weds biologist Katherine Harrison Puening

Robert Oppenheimer
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Nov 5 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn

Ernest Hemingway
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Nov 23 RAF pilot Guy Gibson (22) weds show dancer and actress Eve Moore in Penarth’s Anglican Church

Guy Gibson
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Nov 23 Film director David Lean (32) weds actress Kay Walsh (29)

David Lean
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Nov 30 "I Love Lucy" actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut

Lucille Ball

Desi Arnaz
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Dec 3 Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus (27) weds pianist and mathematician Francine Faure (25) in Lyon, France

Albert Camus
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Dec 7 Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo remarry in San Francisco (divorced 1939)

Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo
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Dec 31 Actress Bette Davis (32) weds New England innkeeper Arthur Farnsworth at 15,000-acre ranch in Lake Montezuma, Arizona

Bette Davis
Famous Divorces
Divorce of Interest
Jul 22 Jacqueline Kennedy's parents John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III and Janet (Norton Lee) divorce

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Divorce of Interest
Nov 4 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway divorces 2nd wife Pauline Pfeiffer

Ernest Hemingway