Famous Wedding Anniversaries on December 30

Famous Weddings

1816 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft

1852 Future US President Rutherford B. Hayes (30) weds teetotaler and abolitionist Lucy Webb (21)

1857 Confederate army cavalry battalion commander John S. Mosby (24) weds Pauline Clarke in Nashville

1879 Composer John Philip Sousa (25) weds Jane van Middlesworth Bellis

1896 Filipino Nationalist Jose Rizal (35) weds girlfriend Josephine Bracken (20) before his execution in Fort Santiago, Manila

1916 MLB player Honus Wagner (42) weds Bessie Baine Smith (26) at St John's Church in Carnegie, Pennsylvania

1918 Gangster Al Capone (19) marries Mae Josephine Coughlin, mother of his child

1975 Director Martin Scorsese (33) weds teacher and author Julia Cameron (27) in Libertyville, Illinois

1984 Professional wrestling manager Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) & wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed

1993 Singer Deni Hines (22) weds INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly (35)
1996 "The Last Emperor" Chinese actress Vivian Wu (30) weds producer-director Oscar Costo (43) in Shanghai, China

1998 Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel (44) weds quantum chemist Joachim Sauer (49) in Bonn, Germany

1998 NBA player Clyde Drexler (36) weds attorney Gaynell Floyd; divorce in 2011

2004 Boston Red Sox centerfielder Johnny Damon (31) weds Michelle Mangan at Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes Hotel in Orlando, Florida
2006 Canadian pair figure skaters David Pelletier (31) weds partner Jamie Sale (28) at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel in Alberta, Canada