Famous Weddings
Edmund Hillary
Sep 3 New Zealand Explorer Edmund Hillary (34) weds Louise Mary Rose
Lana Turner
Sep 8 American movie actress Lana Turner (32) weds 4th husband, "Tarzan of the Apes" actor Lex Barker (34); divorce in 1957
John F. Kennedy & Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Sep 12 American Senator John F. Kennedy (36) weds Jacqueline Bouvier (24) in Newport, Rhode Island
Rita Hayworth
Sep 24 American "Gilda" actress Rita Hayworth (34) weds Argentine singer Dick Haymes (35) at The Sands Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas; divorce in 1955
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sep 25 Russian student and future statesman Mikhail Gorbachev (22) weds fellow student Raisa Maximovna (21) at a Komsomol wedding ceremony, until her death
Joseph McCarthy
Sep 29 US Senator Joseph McCarthy (43) weds researcher Jean Kerr at St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
