Famous Weddings
- 1850 French writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska in Berdyczów, Ukraine
Wedding of Interest
1906 Film director D. W. Griffith (31) weds Linda Arvidson (21) at Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts
D. W. Griffith
Wedding of Interest
1943 Actress Lana Turner and actor Stephen Crane marry for the second time
Lana Turner
Wedding of Interest
1946 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries Mary Welsh
Ernest Hemingway
- 2006 OVW Heavyweight wrestling champion Matt Cappotelli (26) weds Lindsay Seeders at Makena Cove Beach in Maui
- 2006 Argentinean actress Andrea Frigerio (44) weds Lucas Boccino in an intimate civil ceremony
- 2006 Comedian and actor Jack Black (36) weds musician and animator Tanya Haden (34) in Big Sur, California
Wedding of Interest
2009 Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt (36) weds Brittney Cade at a private ceremony in Ojai, California
Mike Dirnt
Wedding of Interest
2014 Actress Jamie Lynn Spears (22) weds businessman Jamie Watson at the Audubon Tea Room in New Orleans, Louisiana
Jamie Lynn Spears
March in History
![Wave of Doubt over Britannia]()
Wave of Doubt over Britannia
The composer who put "Rule, Britannia!" to music was born on this day, but the original words are not quite what they bellow out at the Last Night of the Proms.
March 12, 1710![Sportsman Who Became Larger Than Life]()
Sportsman Who Became Larger Than Life
Nothing suggested that Daniel Lambert, born on this day, would evolve from an athletic youngster to the mountain of a man that he became.
March 13, 1770![Boy Wonder Conquers Theatreland]()
Boy Wonder Conquers Theatreland
Parliament was adjourned on this day so that MPs could grab their seats for a performance by Master Betty – the theatrical wonder of the age.
March 14, 1805![Nature Blows Gunboat Diplomacy Out of the Water]()
Nature Blows Gunboat Diplomacy Out of the Water
The world's superpowers were prepared to use the power of their warships to control the Samoan Islands in the 1880s. But nature had other ideas.
March 15, 1889
