Famous Weddings
Fidel Castro
Oct 11 Fellow students Fidel Castro and Mirta Diaz-Balart marry (divorced 1955)
Gerald Ford & Betty Ford
Oct 15 38th US President Gerald Ford (35) weds department store fashion consultant Betty Bloomer Warren (30) at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids
- Oct 21 Science fiction pioneering author "Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert A. Heinlein marries 3rd wife Virginia "Ginny" Gerstenfeld
Cesar Chavez
Oct 22 American farm labor leader Cesar Chavez (21) weds American labor activist Helen Fabela (20) in Reno, Nevada in civil ceremony, followed later by a church service in California; marriage lasts until his death in 1993
Year of the Rabbit
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Year of the Snake
Year of the Horse
Year of the Goat/Sheep
Year of the Monkey