Famous Weddings
- 1418 Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut marries her cousin John IV Duke of Brabant in The Hague
Wedding of Interest
1820 5th US President James Monroe's daughter Maria 1st child of a President to marry in the White House
James Monroe
Wedding of Interest
1848 Confederate General James Longstreet (27) weds Maria Louisa Garland in Lynchburg, Virginia
James Longstreet
Wedding of Interest
1952 Future US President Ronald Reagan (41) marries Nancy Davis (30) at the Little Brown Church in San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles
Ronald Reagan
Nancy Reagan
- 1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
- 1975 5th Earl of Lichfield Patrick Anson (35) weds Lady Leonora Grosvenor (26), daughter of the 5th Duke of Westminster at Chester Cathedral in England
- 2012 Former "Raising Sextuplets" star Jenny Masche weds longtime beau Levi McClendon in San Diego
- 2014 Supermarket Superstar hostess Stacy Keibler (34) weds Future Ads CEO Jared Pobre on an intimate beachside ceremony in Mexico
March in History
Birdseye – the Father of Frozen Food
Native Americans showed Clarence Birdseye how they preserved fish they had caught. Intrigued, he saw the possibilities and the frozen food industry was born.
March 6, 1930
Sinatra Snaps the Fight of the Century
Sinatra does it his way and secures a ringside seat as a photographer for the "Fight of the Century" between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
March 8, 1971
One-Man War Finally Ends
Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally surrendered on this day – nearly 30 years after the Second World War had ended.
March 9, 1974
Mr. Watson come here, I want you
Alexander Graham Bell spoke only briefly by phone to his assistant on this day in 1876, but it proved to be a pioneering moment in telecoms history.
March 10, 1876