Famous Weddings & Divorces on June 24

Famous Weddings

Woodrow Wilson

1885 College professor and future 28th US President Woodrow Wilson (28) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter and artist Ellen Louise Axson (25) in Savannah, Georgia

Arthur Meighen

1904 Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen (30) weds Jessie Isabel Cox

Walter Johnson

1914 MLB greatest pitcher Walter Johnson (26) weds Hazel Lee Roberts in Northwest, Washington, D.C.

Henry Miller

1924 American writer Henry Miller (31) marries 2nd wife June Smerth (21) in Hoboken, New Jersey.

John Wayne

1933 Actor John Wayne (26) weds Josephine Saenz (25) in Los Angeles

Byron Nelson

1934 Golfer Byron Nelson (22) weds Louise Shofner

O.J. Simpson

1967 NFL running back, broadcaster, actor and later criminal O.J. Simpson (19) marries Marguerite Whitley

1983 "NBC Sports" sportscaster Bob Costas (31) weds Carole Randall Krumenacher

Natalie Maines

2000 "Dixie Chicks" lead vocalist Natalie Maines (25) weds "Profit" actor Adrian Pasdar (35) at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

2005 "Real Madrid" football striker Michael Owen (25) weds Louise Bonsall at Carden Park Hotel in Chester, England
2006 "Numb3rs" actress Diane Farr (36) weds marketing executive Seung Yong Chung (35) at Rainbow Tarns, California
2006 "The Desperate Housewives" actress Marcia Cross (44) weds stockbroker Tom Mahoney (48) at Church of Our Saviour Episcopal Parish in Pasadena, California