This Day In Romance
by Lilli McHale
Friday, November 19th
1954: American actress and dancer Vera-Ellen marries millionaire Victor Rothschild in a ceremony at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Los Angeles. The pair had one child who died in infancy from sudden death syndrome.
1962: American actress, Jodie Foster is born in Los Angeles, California. She has starred in films such as Taxi Driver, Freaky Friday, and The Silence of the Lambs.
Thursday, November 18th
1948: KFC founder, Colonel Harland David Sanders marries long-time employee Claudia Price. Price was working as the manager of Sander’s restaurant and motel, while doubling as his mistress.
1968: American actor Owen Wilson is born in Dallas, Texas. He is known for comedic family films such as Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Wedding Crashers, Little Fockers, and Marley and Me.
Wednesday, November 17th
2015: Ireland’s first same-sex wedding occurs in Clonmel, County Tipperary. A referendum on May 22nd, 2015 amended the Irish Constitution to recognize the marriage of same sex partners.
2008: Twilight premieres in Los Angeles with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as stars. The movie is based off of Stephenie Meyer’s novel Twilight.
Tuesday, November 16th
1997: American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is born in New York City to filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs. Gyllenhaal has starred in films such as Donnie Darko with her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, but her role as Lee Holloway in the film Secretary launched her career.
2015: Lesedi La Rona, the largest diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1.111-carat stone was found in the Karowe mine, Botswana
Monday, November 15th
1887: Georgia O’Keeffe is born in Wisconsin. O’Keefe is known for her romanticized sculpture and paintings of flowers, skyscrapers, and landscapes of the American West.
2005: American Idol winner Carrie Underwood releases her debut album Some Hearts. The album wins 2006 Billboard Album of the Year and earns Underwood a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2007.
Sunday, November 14th
1532: King Henry VII of England marries Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony. The pair officially marry on the 25th of January the following year.
1948: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, is born in London to parents Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth II. He is the eldest son of The Queen and is the heir apparent to the British throne.
Saturday, November 13th
1850: Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stevenson is known for works such as Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verse.
1934: Dancer and actress Ginger Rogers marries fellow actor Lew Ayres. This is Rogers’ second marriage at 23, which lasted only seven years, before Ayres and Rogers divorced.
Friday, November 12th
1929: Grace Kelly is born in Philadelphia. Initially known for her Hollywood film work during the early golden age of TV, Kelly gave up her career to become the Princess of Monaco at 26 after marrying Prince Rainier III in 1956.
1969: Mary Poppins’ actress Julie Andrews marries director Blake Edwards in Beverly Hills. The pair adopted two children and lived with Edwards’ children from a previous relationship, until his death in 2010.
Thursday, November 11th
1962: American actress Demi Moore is born in New Mexico. Aside from her roles in films such as G.I.Jane and Ghost, she is also well known for her marriage to Bruce Willis before her publicized marriage and divorce to Ashton Kutcher, 15-years her junior.
1974: American actor Leonardo DiCaprio is born in Los Angeles, California. DiCaprio’s roles is known for his iconic romance films such as Romeo + Juliet, Titanic, and The Great Gatsby.
Wednesday, November 10th
1926: Crowned prince of Belgium, Leopold, weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden. Astrid spent only two years as the Queen of Belgium before dying in a car crash.
1942: Philip Barry’s Without Love opens in NYC. The play is about the practicalities of a love-less marriage during the trying times of World War II.
Tuesday, November 9th
1931: Actress Gloria Swanson divorces aristocrat and English nobil Henri de la Falaise. The pair were married for six years. Swanson later admitted that she had been pregnant during her marriage but chose to have an abortion, which she later said she regretted.
1931: Actress Gloria Swanson marries Michael Farmer. Unsure if her divorcee was finalized when they married the first time, they had to remarry later, when she was four months pregnant with their daughter, Michelle.
Monday, November 8th
1970: Actor and director Dennis Hooper divorces singer Michelle Phillips. The pair were only married a total of eight days.
1979: Bernard Slade’s Romantic Comedy opens in NYC’s Ethel Barrymore Theater. The play revolves around a man’s impending marriage and his working-relationship with his female co-playwright.
Sunday, November 7th
1951: Frank Sinatra marries his second wife, actress Ava Gardner. The public relationship was filled with fights and altercations before a divorce in 1957.
1996: New Zealand singer Lorde (born Ella Yelich-O’Connor) is born in Auckland, New Zealand. She is known for singing hits such as “Tennis Court” and “Royals.”
Saturday, November 6th
1988: American actress Emma Stone is born in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is known for hits such as Cruella, La La Land, Zombieland, Easy A and Crazy Stupid Love.
1997: Proposals opens at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater for its first of 76 performances. Neil Simon’s play features a divorced dad and daughter who find unexpected romance at their Pocono’s country house.
Friday, November 5th
1913: English actress, Vivien Leigh was born in India. She is known for her roles in such iconic movies such as Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire.
1940 American author Ernest Hemingway marries Martha Gelhorn, journalist. The day previous his divorcee with his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer had just gone through.
Thursday, November 4th
1969: American Actor Matthew McConaughey is born in Uvalde, Texas. He is known for staring in romantic comedies such as: The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Failure to Launch, Fool’s Gold, and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
2006: Croatian princess Paola Doimi de Frankopan marries the son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Lord Nicholas Windsor. The pair married at St. Stephen of Abyssina in Vatican City.
Wednesday, November 3rd
1949: Anna Wintour is born in London, England. As the editor of US Vogue since 1988, Wintour has overseen more than 300 of Vogue’s covers and has shaped fashion for decades.
1992: Whitney Houston releases a cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.” The song wins Billboard’s Song of Year for Houston’s range and skill.
Tuesday, November 2nd
1755: Marie Antoinette, Queen of France from 1774-1792, was born in Vienna, Austria. Known for the phrase “let them eat cake” when told that the people had no bread, the queen’s precarious reputation was built on rumors of promiscuous spending before the revolt of the people in the French Revolution.
1960: Penguin Books is cleared of obscenity and publishes DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Prior to 1960, the book, first published in 1928, was banned in the United States and other countries for its depiction of the physical relationship between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.
Monday, November 1st
1954: Actor John Wayne divorcees actress Esperanza Baur after seven years of marriage due to violence. Baur was convinced Wayne was cheating on her with Gail Russel. One night when he came home late from a wrap party she attempted to shoot him in a drunken rage.
1954: Actor John Wayne marries actress Pilar Palette in Hawaii. The two had met shortly the year before and despite their 21-year age difference the pair remained married for 10 years and had three children together.
Sunday, October 31st
1976: NBA star Larry Bird, at 19, divorces his high school sweetheart, Janet Condra. The pair were only married 11 months and have one child together.
2011: American socialite Kim Kardashian divorces NBA player Kris Humphries after 72 days of marriage. The pair couldn’t come to terms with each other’s lifestyles and Humphries even attempted to file for an annulment.
Saturday, October 30th
1885: Ezra Pound, American poet, is born in Idaho. His epic work, Cantos, pushed the poetic envelope during the modernism period through the use of economy, symbolism, and images.
2011: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is premiered at the Rome Film Festival. The fourth of five total movie installments, based on Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books, it starred former couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
Friday, October 29th
1971: American actress Winona Ryder is born in Minnesota. She has starred in films such as Edward Scissorhands, Little Women, and Heathers.
1982: Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson co-release “The Girl is Mine.” Despite being the first released single from the Thriller album, the song was considered the worst song on the entire album.
Friday, October 29th
1971: American actress Winona Ryder is born in Minnesota. She has starred in films such as Edward Scissorhands, Little Women, and Heathers.
1982: Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson co-release “The Girl is Mine.” Despite being the first released single from the Thriller album, the song was considered the worst song on the entire album.
Thursday, October 28th
1811: Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is purchased for the first time by the Prince Regent, later known as King George IV. The first of her series of successful novels, Austen’s writing is marked with unprecedented female determinism and social commentaries on women’s standings in society.
1967: Julia Roberts, actress, is born in Georgia. She has starred in movies such as Pretty Woman, Eat, Pray, Love, and Valentine’s Day.
Wednesday, October 27th
1932: American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath is born in Boston. Despite living only 30 years, Plath’s contributions to confessional works, specifically The Bell Jar and her collection of poems The Collected Poems, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, have made a lasting impact on American literature.
1964: Singers Sonny and Cher get married. Cher wears bell-bottoms to the ceremony.
Tuesday, October 26th
1916: Women’s health pioneer Margaret Sanger is arrested for advocating birth control, considered an obscenity at the time. Her activism, opening the first birth control clinic in the United States, helped lead to the eventual creation of Planned Parenthood.
2002: American personality Jessica Simpson marries singer Nick Lachey in Austin, Texas. Simpson had waited until marriage in order to have sex and recorded "Sweetest Sin" to document losing her virginity to Lachey.
Monday, October 18th
1960: Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is born in Brussels. He has had five different marriages with different women (he married Gladys Portugues twice).
2000: Actress Demi Moore gets a divorce from actor Bruce Willis after 13 years of marriage. The two have three daughters together.
Sunday, October 17th
1945: Actress Ava Gardner marries bandleader Artie Sha in Hollywood. The marriage was the second of Gardner’s three total.
1987: In term, US First Lady, Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified mastectomy. Considered radical at the time, the move prompted other women to consider breast removal as compared with lumpectomy when dealing with breast cancer.
Saturday, October 16th
1854: Oscar Wilde, one of Ireland’s most famous authors, is born in Dublin. Wilde is known for being tried and convicted of homosexuality, for which he received the most harsh penalty.
2013: Actress Kristen Bell marries actor Dax Shepard at the Beverly Hills Country Clerk’s Office in Beverly Hills, California. The couple waited to get married until California, their home state, legalized same-sex marriage.
Friday, October 15th
2002: Actress Drew Barrymore and comedian Tom Green divorce after two years of marriage. The two starred in Charlie’s Angels together and worked together on Freddy Got Fingered.
2017: Actress Alyssa Milano tweets, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too.”’ Thousands of people respond to the post and have been using the hashtag to come forward with their own sexual harassment stories.
Thursday, October 14th
1939: Ralph Lauren, fashion designer, is born in The Bronx, New York. At only 30 years old, Bloomingdale’s sold Lauren’s Polo, line exclusively in stores, the first time the store had let a designer have their own in-store space.
1957: Marlon Brando marries fellow actress Anna Kashfi. The pair’s son was only one of his 11 total children from his many partnerships, relationships, and marriages.
Wednesday, October 13th
1950: All About Eve premiers with Better Davis and Anne Baxter as its stars. The movie juxtaposes the two women’s ages through their physical appeal.
2017: Rose McGowan, actress, states that Harvey Weinstein raped her in 1997 at a hotel near the Sundance Film Festival. McGowan later settled the suit for $100,000, but not before accusing Hollywood’s elite men of knowing about the act.
Tuesday, October 12th
1216: England’s King John loses his crown jewels. A flash flood overpowers his wagon and the jewels are lost near Fosdyke.
1968: Actor Hugh Jackman is born in Sydney, Australia. His work in films earned him a Golden Globe for his efforts in Les Misérables alongside an Academy Award nomination
Monday, October 11th
1884: Eleanor Roosevelt, longest serving First Lady (1933-1945) is born in New York, New York. She is renowned for her involvement in politics through social activism and humanitarian efforts.
1975: Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham in their living room in Arkansas. The pair is known for their national politics after climbing the governmental ropes together.
Sunday, October 10th
1975: Actress Elizabeth Taylor remarries actor Richard Burton in her sixth marriage. The two divorced for the second time a year later.
1987: Bruce Springsteen’s eighth studio album Tunnel of Love is released. In the album, the singer ponders past loves gone wrong with actress Julianne Phillips with whim he was divorcing.
Saturday, October 9th
1915: Unchastened Woman premiers in New York City. The comedy was written in three parts by Louis Kaufman.
1973: Elvis and Priscilla Presley file for divorce after six years of marriage. The two dated for seven years before embarking on their rocky marriage.
Friday, October 15th
2002: Actress Drew Barrymore and comedian Tom Green divorce after two years of marriage. The two starred in Charlie’s Angels together and worked together on Freddy Got Fingered.
2017: Actress Alyssa Milano tweets, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too.”’ Thousands of people response to the post and have been using the hashtag to come forward with their own sexual harassment stories.
Thursday, October 14th
1939: Ralph Lauren, fashion designer, is born in The Bronx, New York. At only 30 years old, Bloomingdale’s sold Lauren’s Polo, line exclusively in stores, the first time the store had let a designer have their own in-store space.
1957: Marlon Brando marries fellow actress Anna Kashfi. The pair’s son was only one of his 11 total children from his many partnerships, relationships, and marriages.
Wednesday, October 13th
1950: All About Eve premiers with Better Davis and Anne
Baxter as its stars. The movie juxtaposes the two women’s ages through their physical appeal.
2017: Rose McGowan, actress, states that Harvey Weinstein raped her in 1997 at a hotel near the Sundance Film Festival. McGowan later settled the suit for $100,000, but not before accusing Hollywood’s elite men of knowing about the act.
Tuesday, October 12th
1216: England’s King John loses his crown jewels. A flash flood overpowers his wagon and the jewels are lost near Fosdyke.
1968: Actor Hugh Jackman is born in Sydney, Australia. His work in films earned him a Golden Globe for his efforts in Les Misérables alongside an Academy Award nomination.
Monday, October 11th
1884: Eleanor Roosevelt, longest serving First Lady (1933-1945) is born in New York, New York. She is renowned for her involvement in politics through social activism and humanitarian efforts.
1975: Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham in their living room in Arkansas. The pair is known for their national politics after climbing the governmental ropes together.
Sunday, October 10th
1975: Actress Elizabeth Taylor remarries actor Richard Burton in her sixth marriage. The two divorced for the second time a year later.
1987: Bruce Springsteen’s eighth studio album Tunnel of Love is released. In the album, the singer ponders past loves gone wrong with actress Julianne Phillips with whim he was divorcing.
Saturday, October 9th
1915: Unchastened Woman premiers in New York City. The comedy was written in three parts by Louis Kaufman.
1973: Elvis and Priscilla Presley file for divorce after six years of marriage. The two dated for seven years before embarking on their rocky marriage.
Friday, October 8th
1979: Sugar Babies opens at Mark Hellinger Theater for the first of over 1200 performances. The play roles on skits, patriotism, and nostalgia.
1985: Bruno Mars is born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is known for hits like “Just the Way You Are” and “Nothin’ on You.”
Thursday, October 7th
1959: Pillow Talk, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson is released. The movie features a womanizer who attempts to woo the woman who he shares a telephone party line with, the main way he woos women.
1976: Rachel McAdams is born in Ontario, Canada. She has starred in Mean Girls, The Notebook, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and The Vow.
Wednesday, October 6th
1991: Renowned actress and socialite Elizabeth Taylor marries for her eighth and final time. Paparazzi were so desperate to get pictures of her wedding to Larry Fortensky that one photographer parachuted to the wedding ranch.
1996: American country singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw marry in Rayville, Louisiana. The two have taken over the country music world with over 90 million songs sold combine.
Tuesday, October 5th
1975: British actress star Kate Winslet is born in England. She earned global stardom with her leading role in the epic romance Titanic, before reprising roles in films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Revolutionary Road, and The Reader.
2013: Soccer star Abby Wambach marries Sarah Huffman in Hawaii. She said it was not a statement as she was never in the closet and because those days are over.
Monday, October 4th
1989: American Actress, Dakota Johnson, daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, is born in Austin, Texas. She starred in the novel-turned movie cult- series Fifty Shades of Grey.
1990: Fox TV premieres Beverly Hills, 90210. The show ran for 10 seasons and gained a pop culture following based on its constant cast changes.
Sunday, October 3rd
1963: Here’s Love opens at the Shubert Theater for its first of 338 performances. The play is based on Miracle on 34th Street in which a man convinces a cynical little girl that he really is Santa.
1992: Madonna’s “Erotica” video premiers on MTV. The video was controversial and dubbed a "virtual advertisement" for Sex," thus it was banned after playing three times.
Saturday, October 2nd
1869: Mahatma Ghandi was born on this day. He played a crucial role in India’s Independence.
1947: Music in My Heart opens for the first of 124 performances at Adelphi Theater. The play highlights the biographic romance of Peter Tchaikovsky, composer of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, while he is trying to write a play for the Russian Czar.
Friday, October 1st
1910: Bonnie Parker, of Bonnie and Clyde fame, is born in Rowena, Texas. The couple was known for hundreds of robberies and their death by police ambush in Louisiana.
1935: British actress and singer, Julie Andrews is born in Surrey, England. The actress starred as a live Cinderella, won an Academy Award for The Sound of Music, and won a Golden Globe for Mary Poppins.
Sunday, September 30th
1791: Vienna’s premiere opera debuts Mozart’s two act opera Magic Flute. The opera features a Prince who must save his daughter, from her lover and his culture, before realizing she doesn’t need to be saved; he, in-turn, finds his own lover within the culture he feared.
1968: Diana Ross and The Supremes release “Love Child” from their album Love Child. The song sparked controversy over the idea of illegitimate children and was revolutionary for an all-female group.
Wednesday, September 29th
1969: Jackie DeShannon’s “Put Little Love in Your Heart” gets its Gold Record status. The song came after her hit song “What the World Needs Now is Love.”
2012: Anne Hathaway marries Adam Shulman, a jeweler, in California. The couple sold their wedding photos and gave those proceeds to Freedom to Marry, a same-sex marriage advocacy group. The couple have two children.
Tuesday, September 28th
1960: Connie Francis’ "My Heart has a Mind of Its Own" hits number one. The song took three sessions to record and was Francis’ second consecutive Billboard Hot 100.
2010: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison files for divorce from Melanie Craft after a six-year marriage. Craft is a well-known romance novelist with titles such as: A Hard-Hearted Man, Trust Me, and Man Trouble.
Monday, September 27th
1973: Barbra Streisand releases Billboard Song of the Year (1974) “The Way We Were.” The song was produced for the movie, under the same name The Way We Were, along with All in Love is Fair.
2014: Long-time eligible bachelor George Clooney marries activist-lawyer Amal Alamuddin in Venice. The couple have a set of twins together, Ella and Alexander.
Sunday, September 26th
1904: George Bernard Shaw’s How He Lied to Her Husband premieres in NYC. The play works off of Shaw’s Candida and features a foolishly cuckolded husband.
1957: West Side Story, written by Bernstein & Sondheim, premieres at NYC’S Winter Garden Theater. The story line highlights similarities within relationships despite cultural and street differences between the two gangs.
Saturday, September 25th
1954: Actress Audrey Hepburn marries fellow actor Mel Ferrer in Switzerland. The pair met at a dinner party, which lead them to star in War and Peace together.
1952: Christopher Reeve is born in New York City. He was known for playing Superman before becoming paralyzed in 1996.
Friday, September 24th
1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is known for the novels The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and the Damned.
2005: Actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore get married. Demi is more than 14 years older than Aston which caused significant controversy, before their divorce in 2013.
Thursday, September 23rd
2009: Modern Family premieres on ABC. The show stars Ed O’Neil and Sofia Vergara as a new kind of family.
1964: Fiddler on the Roof premieres in NYC. The play circulates around a Jewish man whose daughters are all marrying for love, which moves them away from their faith.
Wednesday, September 22nd
1989: Baywatch premieres on NBC for the first time. The show introduces stars like David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson to the world.
1976: Charlie’s Angels debuts. Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith work to fight crimes at the whim of their boss, the unseen, Charlie.
Tuesday, September 21st
1996: International supermodel Christie Brinkey gets married for the fourth time to architect Peter Cook. After over 20 years of marriage, the pair split in a nasty-public divorce.
2016: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerburg and pediatrician wife Priscilla Chan pledge over three billion dollars to medical research. The pair wanted to create a disease free world for their children by the end of the century.
Monday, September 20th
1904: George Ade’s College Widow opens at NYC’s Garden Theatre. The play is loosely based on widow’s who would live near college towns to date college students.
1934: Italian actress Sophia Loren is born in Rome, Italy. She starred in movies as Pride and Passion, Houseboat and It Started in Naples.
Sunday, September 19th
1945: Child actress Shirley Temple, 17, marries fellow actor John Agar, 24, in Wilshire Methodist Church. Agar debuted as Temple’s lover in Fort Apache, before signing on with her boss after their wedding.
2016: After dating for seven years, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s marriage fails after two years due to irreconcilable differences. The two have each gone through multiple high-profile divorces, but this one dragged their six children into the mix.
Saturday, September 18th
1897: Gustave Kecker and Hugh Martin’s musical Belle of New York City premieres at the Casino Theatre before transferring to London’s West End. The story circulates around a Salvation Army girl who is willing to do anything to find true love.
1971: Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress, is born in Baltimore, Maryland. She is well known for staring in over 20 movies while being married to Will Smith and mother to their well-known children, Jaden and Willow.
Friday, September 17th
1964: The Supremes release their hit song “Baby Love” on their second album entitled Where Did Our Love Go.
1977: Fleetwood Mac’s 11th album remains #1 on the charts for the 19th straight week. The bandmates struggled with relationship problems during the recording of hit singles “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams” and “You Make Loving Fun.”
Thursday, September 16th
1924: Lauren Bacall is born in Staten Island. She is known for her sultry looks and distinctive voice within her movie credits of Dark Passage, Key Largo, The Big Sleep, and How to Marry a Millionaire.
1966: The Metropolitan Opera House opens its doors in its new building at Lincoln Center. The Met opened with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Anthony and Cleopatra.
Wednesday, September 15th
1951: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes closes at the Ziegfeld Theatre in NYC after a total of 740 performances. The show ran for two years with stars Carol Channing as Lorelei Lee.Yvonne Adair as Dorothy Shaw.
1984: British Heartthrob Henry Charles Albert David Windson, Prince Harry of Wales, is born in London to Princess Diana and Prince Charles. The Prince was known as a playboy and eligible bachelor, until his recent wedding to American actress Meghan Markle.
Tuesday, September 14th
1983: British singer Amy Winehouse is born in London. Her deep vocals and album Back to Black lead her to become, at the time, UK’s best-selling album of the 21st century.
1984: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory star Gene Wilder marries Saturday Night Live comedian Gilda Radner in France. The two met on the set of Hanky Panky and became fast friends. After the filming, their relationship grew becoming serious and the two tried to have children before Radner died of ovarian cancer, the apparent reason she could not have kids.
Monday, September 13th
1989: Les Miserables opens at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit. It went on to play there another 10 different times, due to its critical success.
1997: Elton John rereleases “Candle in the Wind” as a tribute to the passing of Diana, Princess of Wales. He performed it live at the funeral service and the single’s global proceeds went to Diana’s charities.
Sunday, September 12th
1846: Poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett marry in London. It was Barrett’s prolific writing success that drew Browning towards her. She is known for poems such as “How Do I Love Thee?” and “Lady Geraldine's Courtship”
1953: Future POTUS, John F. Kennedy, marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island. The two wed only a year after meeting at a dinner party held by journalists.
Saturday, September 11th
1962: The Beatles drop “Love Me Do” and “PS I Love You” featuring Andy White on the drums. The group premiered the songs three different times with three different drummers.
2005: Jane Austen’s book Pride and Prejudice is adapted into a movie starring Kiera Knightley as the lead, Elizabeth Bennet. There are over 15 adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, include versions set in contemporary times, or with zombies, and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier as Darcy! And a mini-series with Peter Cushing as Darcy!
Friday, September 10th
1991: Nirvana releases “Smells like Teen Spirit” to little reception. The song quickly grew in popularity and became a teenage anthem.
1999: At the Venice Film Festival, Brad Pitt stars in Fight Club, an adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel. The movie depicts a complex relationship with masculinity, love, life, and risk.
Thursday, September 9th
1951: Love of Life premieres on CBS. It ran for almost 30 years and changed how soap operas ran.
2012: Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively marries Green Lantern co-star Ryan Reynolds in South Carolina. It is speculated that he cheated on his first wife, Scarlett Johansson, with Lively as their divorce was not finalized when the two started filming Green Lantern.
Wednesday September 8th
1994: The MTV Video Music Awards opens with newlyweds Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. The two had a long-complicated relationship which lasted only four years.
1999: American Beauty premieres in Los Angeles. Kevin Spacey acts as a 42-year-old who falls in love with his teenage daughter’s best friend.
Tuesday September 7th
1943: Gilda actress Rita Hayworth marries director Orson Welles, during their run of The Mercury Wonder Show, in a civil ceremony. The two returned to work hours later, after only announcing the marriage to their co-workers the day before. The marriage floundered, as Hayworth believed Welles did not want to be tied down with a family. They had one daughter.
1987: Keith Sweat releases his first song “I Want Her.” The song was the number one single of 1988 on the Billboard Hot R&B chart.
Monday, September 6th
1997: The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, is held at Westminster Abbey, London. Her two sons and ex-husband walked behind the coffin during the funeral procession.
2001: At the 18th MTV Video Music Awards “Lady Marmalade” produces a win for the cover done by Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya, and Pink. The music video features all four in lingerie alongside a cameo by Missy Elliot.
Sunday, September 5th
1989: The Joan Rivers Show premieres as a daytime talk show, for which she won an Emmy. It was the second show she starred in.
1991: John Travolta marries Kelly Preston. The couple had three children, but Preston died of breast cancer in 2020.
Saturday, September 4th
1991: Most Happy Fella reopens at the NY State Theater in NYC. The play demonstrates the complexity of the mail-order bride system and male’s desperation for marriage.
1998: Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall marries Mark Levinson, an audio designer. The two co-authored the book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm in 2002, before a divorce in 2004.
Friday, September 3rd
1977: I Dream of Jennie star Barbara Eden marries Charles Donald Fegert. The two divorced in 1982.
1977: The Mary Tyler Moore Show broadcasts its last episode on CBS. The show featured a single working woman and highlights female and romantic topics that were typically taboo in that time period.
Thursday, September 2nd
1931: Bing Crosby’s first song, Just One More Chance, is played on the radio. The same year he became a leader in record sales and radio ratings.
1995: Actor Charlie Sheen marries model Donna Peele in Malibu, California. Later that year he is named a client by Heidi Fleiss’ escort agency; the couple files for divorce in 1996.
Wednesday, September 1st
1954: Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Grace Kelly, premieres. The movie shines a new light on voyeurism and idealizes the “peeping Tom.”
2002: Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress Sarah Michelle Gellar marries I Know What you Did Last Summer co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. in Mexico. The couple has two child and have co-starred in multiple movies together such as: Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Happily N'Ever After, and Star Wars Rebels.
Thursday, August 26th
1946: Barbara Bach is born in Queens, New York. An American actress, known for playing the Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me, she married Ringo Starr in 1981.
1953: Roman Holiday premiers staring Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess seeing Rome on her own. Her performance won her an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Wednesday, August 25th
1967: Belle de Jour, a French romantic drama, wins a Golden Lion at The 28th Venice Film Festival. The story revolves around a young woman who works as a high-class prostitute, while her husband works.
1992: Anna Karenina premieres in New York for 46 performances, based on the Leo Tolstoy classic. The play focuses on an unhappy married woman and her spoiled relationship with a Count.
Tuesday, August 24th
1981: Rachel Bilson, is born in Los Angeles. She made her prime time TV debut on The O.C. and then moved on to star in The Hart of Dixie.
1998: Lauryn Hill drops her debut single album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The album was recorded in and inspired by Jamaica, by featuring reggae sounds, alongside blends of r& b, hip-hop and doo-wop. Its themes focused on women’s lives and the complexity of relationships, winning five Grammy awards.
Monday, August 23rd
1981: Romantic heartthrob, Chad Michael Murray, is born, in Buffalo New York. He is known for roles in One Three Hill and A Cinderella Story, prior to stardom he supported himself as a model for Gucci and Tommy Hilfiger.
1987: “McDreamy” actor Patrick Dempsey, aged 21, marries his manager and acting coach, Rocky Parker, aged 47. The couple divorced in 1994, after seven years of marriage.
Sunday, August 22nd
1963: The Beatles release “She Loves You” as a single in the United Kingdom. The song was The Beatles best-selling single of all time in the UK.
2014: American actress and philanthropist, Angelina Jolie, marries producer and actor, Brad Pitt, in France. After getting engaged in 2012, the couple finally tied the knot with all of their children taking part in the wedding, but Jolie filed for divorce in 2016.
Saturday, August 21st
1862: Claude Debussy, composer of romantic classics “Clair de Lune” and “La Mer” is born in France.
1954: Classic play Romeo and Juliet is reworked into a movie directed by Renato Castellani. The movie version of the play wins a Golden Lion at the 15th Venice Film Festival.
Friday, August 20st
1978: The first gay themed television-based film, Matlovich vs US Air Force, premiers. The movie is based on the true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant, who was dismissed from the service for being gay.
1983: La Cage aux Folles, a musical based on a gay couple’s struggle to fit in with their son’s fiancée’s ultraconservative family, opens at Palace Theater in New York City. The story captivated audiences for over 1750 performances.
Thursday. August 19th
2011: Pop culture icon Kim Kardashian marries NBA basketball player Kris Humphries in a dreamy television wedding, in Montecito, California. After only 72 days of marriage, Kim filed for divorce and began dating longtime friend and rapper Kayne West.
2012: Phyllis Diller, groundbreaking female comedian, dies of natural causes at 95, in her home, in California. She was the first female comedian to be open about plastic surgery, female struggles, and the status quo of gender and sexuality.
Wednesday, August 18th
1883: French fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel is born in Saumur, France. She was the founder of Chanel and is known for helping to liberate women’s style from the pre-World War 1 corseted silhouettes and ushered in sporty-chic looks for women.
1979: The Knack’s debut single, “My Sharonna” hits #1 and remains there for 42 days. The song took 15 minutes to write and was inspired by Fieger’s 17-year-old girlfriend, Sharonna, as he wanted to profess his love to her.
Tuesday, August 17th
1572: Henry IV of France marries his second cousin Margaret of Valois. He annulled the marriage, due to her inability to produce children. He remarried a year later and produced six kids with his new wife.
1958: Lolita is published by Vladimir Nabokov. Despite the horrors of the book, the question of rape and consensual sex between a stepfather and his preteen stepdaughter, it is continually ranked as one of the most beloved books of all times.
Monday, August 16th
1891: NYC open’s its first public bathhouse, with showers. It is called People’s Bath and changes the levels of intimacy between New Yorkers in the summer heat.
1893: Sex icon, actress, singer and comedian Mae West is born in Brooklyn. She is known for her breezy, bawdy, sexual independence after penning, directing and starring in her own Broadway musical entitled Sex.
Sunday, August 15th
1954: Director of untraditional romance films Titanic and Avatar, James Cameron, is born in Ontario. Cameron’s success with Titanic, which was the highest grossing film of all time coming in at $1.84 billion worldwide, was only surpassed in 2009 by his most recent blockbuster, Avatar.
1985: “The Queen of Pop” Madonna marries actor Sean Penn on her 27th birthday. The two had only known each other six months. In 1986, she dedicated her third album, True Blue, to him before his violent tendencies drove a wedge in-between them and divorce proceedings began.
Saturday, August 14th
1769: Napoleon Bonaparte, leader of the French military and Emperor is born in France. He later weds a 32-year-old widow at 26, who he renames Josephine because he did not like her birth name, Rose.
1990: American super-actress Jennifer Lawrence is born in Louisville, Kentucky. She has consistently been one of the highest paid actress in the world and often opts to play the quirky and strong women, in complicated romances, due to her belief in female equality.
Friday, August 13th
1959: Earvin “Magic” Johnson is born in Michigan. He is known for being a three-time NBA MVP alongside being HIV positive, for which he has raised massive funds and awareness, within both the straight and LGBTQ+ communities.
1965: Model and fitness superstar Jane Fonda marries producer and director Roger Vadim, in Las Vegas. After filing for divorce in 1973, Fonda married activist Tom Hayden.
Thursday, August 12th
1860: Annie Oakley, American sharp shooter, is born in Ohio. Her talent was noticed when she won a shooting match against the traveling-show marksman Frank Butler, at the ripe age of 15. The two later married after she outshot him for $100.
1994: Actor Alan Thicke marries former Miss World Gina Marie Tolleson. The two were married for nine years and Gina Marie acted as a stepmother to future “Blurred Lines” singer Robin Thick and his brother, Brennan.
Wednesday, August 11th
1992: English model Cara Delevingne is born in London. She has appeared in many romance films such as Paper Towns and Suicide Squad, while using her platform to preach LGBTQ+ rights.
2011: Rock star John Mellencamp’s third marriage fails. He files for an amicable divorce from his model wife, Elaine Irwin, after 18 years of marriage and two sons.
Tuesday, August 1oth
1950: Jackson Pollock, renowned expressionist artist, is killed at the age of 44. He was drunk driving and totaled his car with his mistress, Ruth Kligman, at his side.
1983: Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor known for his role of Thor in The Avengers is born.
Monday, August 9th
1942: Betsy Johnson, fashion designer, is born in Wethersfield, Connecticut. She is known for her feminine and whimsical style of clothing.
1986: Me & My Girl opens on Broadway’s Marquis Theater and runs for 1420 performances. The show features a couple that has to overcome economic and social difficulties to be welcomed into society.
Sunday, August 8th
1963: Singer Whitney Houston is born in Newark, New Jersey. She is one of the best-selling artists of all time despite her career being cut short due to her death at 48.
1997: Tim McGraw releases “Just to See You Smile” about his wife Faith Hill. The song becomes the Billboard Song of the Year in 1998.
Saturday, August 7th
1606: Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth is possibly performed in the Great Hall’s Hampton Court Palace. King James the first looked on while Macbeth’s wife used her cunning to craft the downfall of her family.
1954: Musical genius Johnny Cash marries his first wife, Vivian Liberto, at 22. Vivian filed for divorce in 1966 due to his alcoholic ways and his cheating tendencies. She raised their four kids on her own following the divorce.
Friday, August 6th
1637: Ben Jonson dies at 65. He was a famous English playwright and poet who popularized plays of comedy, which feature romance. He was known to be only second best in England for plays and literature behind Shakespeare.
1911: Lucille Ball is born in Jamestown, New York. She stared, and self-produced a series of Lucy Shows such as I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and Life with Lucy. Her television studio produced hits such as Star Trek and Mission Impossible.
Thursday, August 5th
1962: Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jean Mortenson, is found dead at 36. She was an American movie star, sex symbol, and blonde bombshell who was found dead due to an apparent self-inflicted drug overdose on her bed by her psychiatrist.
1964: Director Mel Brooks marries actress Anne Bancroft. The two wed at Manhattan Marriage Bureau and stayed together until Bancroft’s death in 2005.
Wednesday, August 4th
2001: Pierce Brosnan, James Bond actor, marries TV journalist and hostess Keely Shaye Smith. The two wed in the 785-year-old Ballintubber Abbey in Ireland.
2015: Muppet’s stars Miss Piggy and longtime boyfriend Kermit the Frog announced their split on Twitter. Miss Piggy claims to be dating co-star Topher Grace while Kermit is dating a sow named Grace.
Tuesday, August 3rd
1926: Tony Bennet, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, is born in Queens, New York. He is known for having released almost 70 albums which feature songs such as “I Left my Heart in San Francisco” and “Because of You.”
2015: Singer and designer Gwen Stefani divorcees Gavin Rossdale, fellow artist, after 13 years of marriage. The two were married in two different ceremonies and have three kids together.
Monday, August 2nd
1865: Lewis Carroll publishes his Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The book was originally written as a gift to a little girl named Alice.
1997: Kelsey Grammer, Frazier actor, marries Playboy model Camille Donatacci in Malibu. The two divorced in 2011 under the scrutiny of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hill’s audience, during which the episode about the divorce was the highest rated episode of the season.
Sunday, August 1st
1942: Actress Janet Leigh marries her childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle in Reno, Nevada. The pair were 14 and 18, respectively, and got divorced the same year.
1976: Elizabeth Taylor finalizes her sixth divorce, out of her total eight. This was her second divorce from fellow actor Richard Burton. Their first divorce took place two years before.
Saturday, July 31st
1976: Renowned singer Natalie Cole marries Marvin Yancy, songwriter. Cole is the daughter of Nat King Cole.
1988: The last Playboy club closes. It was located in Lansing, Michigan. In 2014, a Playboy-themed lounge was put into a hotel in Los Angeles and a club briefly opening in NYC in 2018, but closed soon after.
Friday, July 30th
1997: Andy Gibb’s “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” hits number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song stayed there from mid-July to September.
2007: Pop superstar Britney Spears files for divorce from Kevin Federline after only two years of marriage. The two had a reality TV show together called Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, which was comprised of home videos.
Thursday, July 29th
1981: Prince Charles of Wales weds Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. The wedding results in a messy marriage, and divorce, with affairs on both sides.
2000: Jennifer Aniston marries fellow actor Brad Pitt in a private ceremony in Malibu, California. The wedding ends with Brad Pitt’s speculated cheating and subsequent marriage to Angelina Jolie.
Wednesday July 28th
1950: Actress Bette Davis weds Gary Merrill in Mexico. He was eight years her junior.
1992: Mary J. Blige drops her debut album What’s the 411. Puff Daddy helped produced the album which led Blige to become one of the most popular R&B singers of this generation.
Tuesday, July 27th
1890: The art community is on the edge of its seat whether revolutionary Dutch Artist Vincent van Gogh will survive a self-inflicted gunshot. Van Gogh dies, in Auvers-sur-Oise, two days later.
1997: The Marquis Theater wraps up Victor/Victoria after 738 performances. The play highlights the LGBTQ community while Julie Andrews received Tony nominees for her performance as the lead.
Monday, July 26th
1755: Giacomo Casanova, a man whose name is synonymous with “womanizer,” is arrested for indecency and imprisoned at the Doge’s Palace.
1991: Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, is arrested. Herman was found exposing himself at an adult movies theater in Florida.
Sunday, July 25th
1933: Duke Ellington plays in the first live Dutch radio concert which ushers in a new era of radio’s importance.
1966: The Supremes release “You Can’t Hurry Love.” The song tops the Billboard charts and is later re-released by Phil Collins in 1982
Saturday, July 24th
1917: The trial of Dutch seductress and exotic dancer Mata Hari starts in Paris. She was allegedly spying for Germany and caused the death of over 50,000 soldiers.
1969: Jennifer Lopez, JLo, is born in The Bronx. She is known for her Latin flair in singing, dancing, and acting.
Friday, July 23rd
1973: Monica Lewinsky is born. She is known for her affair as an intern with President Bill Clinton.
1986: Britain’s Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson in Westminster Abbey.
Thursday, July 22nd
1932: Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer, is born.
1992: Selena Gomez, international pop sensation, is born.
Wednesday, July 21st
1976: Guys & Dolls premiers on Broadway for the first of its 239 performances. The show is one of the first of its kind to be able to successfully highlight the complexities of mob romance.
2010: Victoria’s Secret supermodel Miranda Kerr secretly marries actor Orlando Bloom
Tuesday, July 20th
1968: Jane Asher breaks off her engagement with Paul McCartney of the Beatles, on BBC. The two had been together for five years before Asher found him in bed with an American.
2015: the seemingly perfect couple of country singers Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert divorce after only four years of marriage.
Monday, July 19th
1553: Lady Jane Grey is replaced as the Queen of England by Mary I. She spent only nine days on the throne before being considered illegitimate, due to the nature of her parents’ relationship, and was usurped.
2014: Adam Levine, Maroon 5 lead vocalist, married Behati Prinsloo, Victoria’s Secret Model, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The two have two daughters together.
Sunday, July 18th
1970: The Boyfriend closes at The Ambassador Theater on Broadway. The romantic play was the American stage debut of Julie Andrews.
1992: “I Will Always Love You” singer Whitney Houston marries Bobby Brown which leads to a tumultuous relationship.
Saturday, July 17th
1947: Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall and wife of Prince Charles of Wales, is born in London. Camilla’s complex relationship with Prince Charles set the stage for his divorce from Princess Diana. Prince Charles and Camilla dated in the 60’s and then got officially married in 2005.
1952: Eighties heartthrob David Hasselhoff is born in Baltimore.
Friday, July 16th
1911: Ginger Rogers is born in Missouri. She becomes one half of the 30’s hit dance couple Astaire and Rogers and later pursues acting when the couple split.
1994: Anna Nicole Smith, a 26-year-old Playmate of the Year, married an 89-year-old J. Howard Marshall II. It was said she never kissed him, had sex with him or lived with him, yet she claimed she loved him despite the age.
Thursday, July 15
1996: Prince Charles of Wales and Princess Diana of Wales sign divorce papers after the Queen sends letters encouraging them to divorce. The Prime Minister and senior Privy Counsellors agreed after two weeks of discussion.
2005: The romantic comedy Wedding Crashers, which stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, hits theaters.
Wednesday, July 14th
1790: Louis XVI and wife Marie Antionette hold the first Fête de la Fédération to romanticize the progress of the French Révolution
1870: Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of American president Abraham Lincoln, is awarded a lifetime pension of $3,000 due to her husband’s assassination while president
Tuesday, July 13th
1939: Heartthrob Frank Sinatra’s first record debuts. He was paid $125 a week for over 40 recordings produced in Chicago.
2009: Shakira’s “She Wolf” drops revealing Shakira’s dissatisfaction with her partner. It receives international acclaim and helped promote her eighth international album.
Monday, July 12th
1904: Pablo Neruda is born in Chile. He is known for his passionate love poems such as Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
1918: Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khokhola, a dancer who introduced Picasso to high society. The two have a son, who became his father’s chauffeur. Due to an affair their marriage was annulled, but they separated, rather than divorced, as Picasso could then avoid the French law that required an even division of wealth. The two remained married until Olga died in 1955.
Sunday, July 11th
2000: a new vaccine to help fight the HIV crisis is released, giving the heterosexual and homosexual community hope for the first time.
2009: Step It Up co-actors Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan marry in Malibu California. The two met on the set of the movie and both are dancers. They have a daughter and announced their divorce in April of 2018.
Saturday, July 10th
1985: Playboy and Penthouse print nude pictures of Madonna.
2012: The American Episcopal Church is the first church to approve the rites of gay marriage.
Friday, July 9th
1540: English King Henry VIII annuls his marriage of six months with his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, due to not yet having consummated the marriage.
1842: Nathaniel Hawthorn, author of The Scarlet Letter, marries Sophia Peabody, in her family’s Boston home. Hawthorn was often speculated as being gay, due to the nature of his relationship with renowned author Herman Melville.
Thursday, July 8th
1994: Preliminary trial directs there is ample evidence to try football superstar O.J. Simpson for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown, and her boyfriend, Ron Goldman.
1999: J.K. Rowling publishes Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in the U.K., a story she created as a love letter to her children’s childhood bedtime stories.
Wednesday, July 7th
1967: The Beatles’ release “All You Need is Love” with a simple message to be heard across the world.
2007: Actress Eva Longoria marries NBA player Tony Parker in a civil service in Paris. The two divorced in 2010, after Longoria found hundreds of texts from Erin Barry, who was married to Brent Barry, Parker’s former teammate.
Tuesday, July 6th
1907: Frida Kahlo, a surrealist painter known for her striking self-portraits and complicated relationship with muralist Diego Rivera, was born in Mexico.
2016: NFL quarterback Russel Wilson marries popstar Ciara in England’s Peckforton Castle.
Monday, July 5th
1946: The newest thing in beachwear is debuted by Louis Reard when his bikini swimsuit design takes the runway in Paris.
1957: Frank Sinatra divorces actress Ava Gardner after being married for six years.
Sunday, July 4th
1999: International soccer star David Beckham marries singer/designer Victoria (Adams) Beckham at Luttrellstown’s Castle, which sports a whopping 560-acres outside of Dublin. The two have four children together.
2015: Former co-actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis marry. Both starred on That 70’s Show and rekindled their friendship after their own divorces. He was her first kiss ever during the filming of the show. The two have two children together.
Saturday, July 3rd
1951: Poet Maya Angelou marries Greek electrician and former sailor Tosh J. Angelos and studies dance in New York City with Alvin Ailey. Both families disapproved of the interracial relationship which lasted until 1954.
2005: Spain’s national law legalizes same-sex marriage.
Friday, July 2nd
1953: Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned queen. She had previously stood in for her father, King George VI, during the years leading up to his death. Sixteen months later a formal coronation was held in Westminster Abbey.
1956: Elvis records two of his hits “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Hound Dog.” “Hound Dog” and Elvis’ dance moves were supposed to arouse the sexuality of the youth according to the F.B.I.
Thursday, July 1st
1961: Diana Frances Spencer was born to noble parents in England. She became the Princess of Wales on July 29th, 1981 when she married Prince Charles and would forever be known as Princess Diana, The People’s Princess.
1972: England holds its first Gay pride march in London.
Wednesday June 30th
1975: Cher gets married to Gregg Allman. This occurs only four days after her divorce from Sonny Bono.
2012: Alec Baldwin marries Hilaria Thomas at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Hilaria is pretended to be from Spain and worked as a yoga instructor in NYC before having four children together.
Tuesday, June 29th
1854: English writer Charlotte Bronte weds Arthur Bell Nicholls. She had initially turned down the proposal before finally accepting it due to overwhelming feelings developing towards him.
2012: Katie Holmes, American actress, files to divorce producer Tom Cruise over religious beliefs and their daughter. Cruise is a known scientologist, which caused riffs in the relationship.
Monday, June 28th
2008: Golf star Greg Norman married former tennis legend Chris Evert in the Bahamas. Evert had an affair, which lead to their divorce in 2009.
2010: Sandra Bullock files to divorce Jesse James after only five years of marriage. She has since adopted two children on her own, although the first was supposed to be with James.
Sunday, June 27th
1992: Andrea Bocelli marries Enrica Cenzatti. The two met in a piano bar and had two children together.
2007: Baywatch actress and former Playmate Donna D’Errico files to divorce Motley Crue bass player Nikki Sixx. The two were married for nine years before their split.
Saturday, June 26th
1915: T. S. Eliot marries Vivienne Haigh-Wood in London. He later claimed the marriage was only for his own ability to stay in London.
1975: After a successful music career together, Cher divorces Sonny Bono. The two had been fighting since 1972 but kept their public appearance together until 1974.
Friday, June 25th
1999: Jean-Claude Van Damme marries Gladys Portugues in Belgium. The pair had a son in the marriage before Van Damme started an affair.
2006: Nicole Kidman marries Keith Urban in Australia. The pair wed at the Cardinal Ceretti Memorial Chapel.
Thursday, June 24th
1971: McCabe and Mrs. Miller stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. The movie features song by Leonard Cohen.
2010: Megan Fox marries 90210 actor Brian Austin Green in Hawaii. The two began dating when Fox was 18 and were engaged once before calling it off in 2009.
Wednesday, June 23rd
1954: Ruth Bader Ginsburg marries Martin Ginsburg. They actually only worked on one case together as seen in the movie On the Basis of Sex.
1955: “Lady & the Tramp” is released to theaters by Walt Disney. The movie showcases the romance of an upper-class female cocker spaniel and a stray mutt male who fall in love despite their differences.
Tuesday, June 22nd
2011: Daniel Craig marries Rachel Weisz in a New York private ceremony. The two had been close friends for many years before dating in 2010.
2013: NeNe Leakes, known for her appearances on The Real Housewives of Atlanta marries ex-husband Gregg Leakes. The pair had only divorced two years earlier before rekindling their relationship.
Monday, June 21st
1930: Future Titanic actress Gloria Stuart marries a sculptor, Blair Gordon Newell.
1998: Maculay Culkin is 17 when he marries Broadway performer Rachel Miner. The bride was also 17 during their Connecticut wedding.
Sunday, June 20th
1837: Queen Victoria becomes queen of the British Throne at the age of 18. She held the throne for 63 years until 1901.
1987: Johnny Carson marries for the fourth time. His marriage to Alexis Mass lasted until his death in 2005.
Saturday June 19th
1942: Marilyn Monroe is 16 when she marries her first husband, a 21-year-old policeman named James Dougherty. The pair divorced in 1946.
1999: Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, marries Sophie Rhys-Jones at Windsor Castle’s St. George’s Chapel. All his brothers had been married at West Minster Abbey, but had ended in divorce, thus the use of St. George’s Chapel.
Friday, June 18th
1953: Martin Luther King marries fellow civil rights activist Coretta Scott. The pair had two children before King’s assignation in 1968.
1994: The Gay Games make their opening in New York City. The games started in 1982 in San Francisco before commemorating the Stone Wall Riots’ 25th anniversary in NYC.
Wednesday, June 16th
1956: British Poet Ted Hughes weds Sylvia Plath in London. The pair were both successful poets before meeting and quickly getting married.
1991: Gershwin Theater’s closes Fiddler on the Roof after over 240 performances.
Tuesday, June 15th
1777: Betsy Ross, American seamstress, marries Joseph Ashburn. This was her second marriage by 25.
2002: Charlie Sheen marries Denise Richards in California. The wedding had a rose arch with over 1000 flowers.
Monday, June 14th
1977: Twiggy Lawson, iconic English model marries actor Michael Witney. The two remained married until his death in 1983.
1999: Eminem marries Kimberly Anne Scott. This is the first of their weddings.
Sunday, June 13th
1625: Charles the first, the English King, gets married to the French princess Henriette. The marriage was not well received due to it being held within a Roman Catholic setting.
2012: The Amazing Spider-Man with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone makes its premiere at the Tokyo Film Festival. The two went on to date until 2015 after meeting on set.
Saturday, June 12th
1970: Fleetwood Mac’s drummer Mick Fleetwood marries Jenny Boyd. Weston, another band member, later had an affair with Jenny.
1999: David Arquette, director of Friends marries Courtney Cox of Friends. The two have a daughter together with Jennifer Aniston as a godmother.
Friday, June 11th
1988: Cher’s “We All Sleep Alone” hits #14 on the charts. The song was performed on many of her tours and had a music video that went along with it.
2002: Paul McCartney marries Heather Mills in Ireland’s Castle Leslie. The pair had one child together before a divorce in 2006.
Thursday, June 10th
1967: Margrethe II marries Prince Henrik of Denmark. The pair got married at the Naval Church of Copenhagen.
1993: She Loves Me makes it opening premiere at NYC’s Criterion Theater. The show ran for 61 shows.
Wednesday, June 9th
1991: Bruce Springsteen marries one of his backup singers, Patty Scialfa. The two had initially met through a mutual friend.
1993: What’s Love Got to Do with It makes its way to theaters. The story is about Tina and Ike Turner’s lives.
Tuesday, June 8th
1984: Australia’s New South Wales proclaims it is legal to be a homosexual. It has always been legal for women to be homosexuals in the state.
2013: Princess of Sweden, Madeleine, marries Christopher O’Neill in Stockholm’s Royal Palace Church. The pair have three children together.
Monday, June 7th
1996: All My Children’s Julia and Noah get married. The pair represented a dynamic couple going through a lot to end up together.
2003: Edward Burns and Christy Turlington marry in San Francisco’s St. Peter and Paul’s Catholic Church.
Sunday, June 6th
1971: Yoko Ono and John Lennon make an unannounced appearance in NYC. The pair showed up to the Fillmore East, and continued to pop up around the city.
2007: Spice Girl Mel B married Stephen Belafonte in Las Vegas. The pair divorced in 2017.
Saturday, June 5th
1981: The United States AIDS epidemic kicks off as the CDC announces there are pneumonia cases within five different homosexual men. The pandemic started in L.A. before spreading elsewhere.
1993: Mariah Carey marries for the first time. She wed Tommy Mottola, the CEO of Sony Music, before they split in 1997.
Friday, June 4th
1942: Mrs. Miniver is first released to theaters in the United States before winning Best Picture in 1943. The movie is based on Jan Struther’s novel on a middle class family struggling through the war while a husband is sent to war.
1992: Steve Irwin marries scientist and naturalist Terri Ranies in Oregon. The two remained married until his death in 2006.
Thursday, June 3rd
2001: Tina Fey marries her Saturday Night Live composer Jeff Richmond. The two wed in a Greek Orthodox ceremony in Philadelphia.
2013: “Royals” is released by Lorde as her debut single. The song came off of her EP The Love Club.
Wednesday, June 2nd
1979: The first bill that gives homosexuals rights is signed by L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley. The bill prohibited discrimination against homosexuals in businesses.
2012: Drew Barrymore marries writer Will Kopelman in California. The two have two children.
Tuesday, June 1st
1533: Anne Boleyn is crowned the Queen of England. She won the crown as the second wife to King Henry the VIII before she was later beheaded.
1949: Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz for the second time. Their first and second marriages ended in divorce.
Monday, May 31st
1992: Crazy for You wins Best Musical at the 46th Tony Awards. The show follows a group of lovestruck boys in the 1930’s.
2014: Melissa Etheridge marries Linda Wallem in California. The pair were dating for a year and a half before tying the knot.
Sunday, May 30th
1966: Dolly Parton marries Carl Dean in Georgia. The pair have been married over 50 years and renewed their vows in 2016.
2000: Couple Faith Hill and Tim McGraw win big at the 35th Academy of Country Music Awards. The two even get nominated together for Vocal Event of the Year, “Let’s Make Love.”
Saturday, May 29th
1976: Johnny Cash’s song “One Piece at a Time,” hits #29 on the Billboard 100. The song was the very last of Cash’s to hit the Billboard Hot 100.
2010: Shania Twain files to divorce Robert John Lange. He first heard her music and then offered to help her produce it when she was just taking off.
Thursday, May 27th
2003: Angelina Jolie files to divorce Billy Bob Thornton. The two had an eccentric relationship including wearing each other’s blood in jewelry around their necks.
2012: Amour wins the Palme d’Or at the 65th Cannes Film Fest. The film follows an older couple whose life is falling apart
Wednesday, May 26th
1994: Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley. The daughter of Elvis had known Jackson since 1975 and later reconnected through mutual friends.
1998: The date is set for Paula Jones’ sexual harassment trial against President Bill Clinton. The case gained traction after his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Tuesday. May 25th
1898: Milton Hershey, chocolatier, marries Catherine Sweeney in NYC’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral. They had no children.
1991: LaTour’s “People Are Still Having Sex,” reaches #35 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song tries to talk about safe sex and how to do it.
Monday, May 24th
2014: Rapper Kayne West marries socialite Kim Kardashian in Florence, Italy. The pair have three children together and were friends for years before their marriage, but are now divorcing.
2016: Bill Cosby must stand trial for a sexual assault case in Norristown PA. He was found guilty in 2018 and will be in prison for 3-10 years.
Sunday, May 23rd
2004: Singer Michelle Branch marries Teddy Landau in Mexico. He is her bass player and the pair have a child together.
2016: Amber Heard divorces Johnny Depp. The pair met on set of The Rum Diary in 2011.
Saturday, May 22nd
1907: Laurence Olivier is born in Surrey, England. He goes on to act in Rebecca, Hamlet and The Jazz Singer.
2001: Jane Fonda files to divorce third husband and CNN founder Ted Turner. The pair believed their 10 year marriage was broken.
Friday, May 21st
1990: Wild at Heart is awarded the Palm d’Or at the 43rd Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern as a couple who are running away from a possessive mother.
1998: Supermodel Cindy Crawford marries Rande Gerber in the Bahamas. The two have two children together and the entire family has done professional modeling work.
Thursday, May 20th
1979: Barrymore Theater NYC closes I Love My Wife after a whopping 864 performances. The show follows two couples who have known each other and are considering a ménage-a-quatre.
2017: Pippa Middleton, sister of the future queen of England, marries James Matthews in Englefield, Berkshire. The two have a child.
Wednesday, May 19th
1536: Anne Boleyn is beheaded at the Tower of London. As the second wife of King Henry VIII. She was beheaded due to charges of incest, treason and adultery.
2018: American actress Meaghan Markle weds Prince Harry in Windsor Castle. She is now formally a member of the British royal family.
Tuesday, May 18th
2007: Singer Amy Winehouse marries Blake Fielder-Civil in Miami. The pair had a complicated and abusive relationship until 2009.
2018: Love Yourself: Tear by Korean pop boy band BTS sells over 135,000 albums in its first week.
Monday, May 17th
1536: Four of Anne Boleyn’s lovers are executed for adultery. She died two days later.
1923: Marlene Dietrich marries assistant director Rudolf Sieber in Berlin. The two had one child and remained together until his death.
Sunday, May 16th
1836: A 26-year-old Edgar Allan Poe weds his 13-year-old cousin, who died of tuberculosis nine years later and was said to be the inspiration for Annabel Lee.
2001: Mulholland Drive premieres at the Cannes Film Festival. The film revolves around the complicated life and relationship of a dark-haired woman.
Friday, May 14th
1965: Director Martin Scorsese marries Laraine Brennan in NYC. The pair has a daughter together.
2004: Shrek 2 makes its premiere at France’s Cannes Film Festival. Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon only to have to charm her parents.
Friday, May 14th
1942: The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) was established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1996: Antonio Banderas marries Melanie Griffith in Westminister’s register office, London. The two met while filming Two Much.
Thursday, May 13th
1978: “Angel” has its final of five shows at Minskoff Theater in NYC. The show was about a relationship between a mother and son and how they can keep their life in check.
1991: “Like a Virgin,” is sang to Jose Canseco at Yankee Stadium. He was rumored to be dating Madonna at the time.
Wednesday, May 12th
1641: Fourteen year-old Prince Willem II marries nine-year-old English Princess Mary Henrietta Stuart. The two combine the Stuart families and the Oranges.
2004: Actress Ali Landry files to divorce actor Mario Lopez due to infidelity. The pair met at a pageant where she was a contestant and he was the host before the two-week marriage folded.
Tuesday, May, 11th
1986: Tommy Lee of Motley Crue marries actress Heather Locklear. The two divorced in 1993 and pursued new romances shortly after.
Monday, May, 10th
1986: Tommy Lee of Motley Crue marries actress Heather Locklear. The two divorced in 1993 and pursued new romances shortly after.
2011: “Lovestrong” is released by Christina Perri. Her debut it’s single “Jar of Hearts,” Perri was signed to Atlantic Records for the album.
Sunday May 9th
1987: Actor Tom Cruise marries his first wife, actress Mimi Rogers. She introduced him to The Church of Scientology and divorced him in 1990.
2012: US President Barack Obama announces he supports same-sex marriage. Legislation to make same-sex marriage legal is passed in 2015.
Saturday, May 8th
1882: La Belle Russe makes its premiere in NYC. The play was later adapted to be a silent film.
1970: The Beatles album Let It Be is released in the UK. It is their 12th and final studio album due to their break-up.
Friday, May 7th
1429: English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army.
2018: Met Gala opens their 2018 with theme “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Anna Wintour hosts party-goers such as Donatella Versace, Madonna, Blake Lively and Rihanna.
Thursday, May 6th
1950: An 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor marries her first husband, Conrad Hilton Jr., heir to the Hilton Hotel fortune, but his "gambling, drinking, and abusive behavior" horrified her and her parents. The marriage ended in divorce after eight months.
1987: Presidential candidate Gary Hart claims he didn’t have an affair with model Donna Rice. The rumored affair was enough to end Hart’s presidential nomination run.
Wednesday, May 5th
1941: Coco Chanel released Chanel No. 5. Chanel wanted to create a scent that was more complicated than classical perfumes.
2000: Angelina Jolie marries 20 years her senior Billy Bob Thornton in The Little Church of the West Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. Thornton courted Jolie after ending his engagement to Laura Dern.
Tuesday, May 4th
1977: First official Star Wars Day, an informal commemorative day observed annually on May 4 to celebrate the Star Wars media franchise amongst fans.
2013: English actress, Keira Knightley, marries English musician James Righton in France. The pair have a child together after meeting in 2011.
Monday, May 3rd
1937: Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for Gone With the Wind
2018: As a result of the #MeToo movement, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences members vote to expel Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski.
Sunday, May 2nd
1997: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is released. The movie spoofed the James Bond films of the 60s and 70 with Mike Myers’ role as an awkward spy alongside his romance with Elizabeth Hurley.
2015: American actress Amy Adams marries longtime partner Darren Le Gallo in California. The two had met in acting class in 2001 before becoming engaged in 2008.
Saturday, May 1st
1967: Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu, an actress, in Las Vegas’ Aladdin Hotel. The marriage failed within five years but left Elvis devastated. They had one daughter, Lisa Marie.
1978: Model Bianca Jagger files to divorce Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger. They were married for eight years and had a daughter, Jade, but Bianca filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery as he was with model Jerry Hall.
Friday, April 30th
1695: William Congreve’s comedy Love for Love opens in London. Main character Ben attempts to marry the women of his choice through a series of errors.
2008: Mariah Carey, singer, marries rapper Nick Cannon on Bahamian Island Windermere. The two have twins and divorced in 2016.
Thursday April 29th
1967: Aretha Franklin drops single Respect. The song wins Billboard Song of the Year that year.
2011: Crowned Prince William weds Catherine Middleton at Westminister Abbey. The royal wedding united the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who have three children.
Wednesday, April 28th
1994: Lisa Marie Presley separates from Danny Keough. He was the guitarist in her band and she called him her music mentor. She has been married four times.
1966: The Sound of Music wins at the 38th Academy Awards. The film wins five awards.
Tuesday, April 27th
1867: Romeo et Juliette opens in Paris as an opera. The opera had four duets and opened at the Theatre Lyrique.
1996: Actors Robin Wright and Sean Penn marry in Santa Monica. The two divorced in 2010.
Monday, April 26th
1923: English Prince Albert marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. The two have two children together and reigned until 1952, when Queen Elizabeth took the throne.
1994: Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey files to divorce his manager Rocky Parker who was 26 years older than him. Dempsey became friends with Parker’s son during their marriage.
Sunday, April 25th
1917: Ella Fitzgerald is born in Virginia. The jazz singer is known as the Queen of Jazz.
2008: Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, TV personalities, marry in California. The two met on the TV show The Hills, and viewers watched their budding romance.
Saturday, April 24th
1558: Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland weds French crown prince Francois. She was the Queen of France for two years before his death.
2007: Whitney Houston, most awarded female performer of all time, files to divorce Bobby Brown. The two had an awful 14-year marriage where Brown was abusive to Houston.
Friday, April 23rd
1564: William Shakespeare is born in Stratford upon Avon, England. The English poet and playwright is among the most famous writers of all time.
1992: British Princess Anne files to divorce first husband Mark Phillips after 19 years of marriage. Within months of the divorce, Anne was remarried to her mother’s former equerry, Sir Timothy Laurence.
Thursday, April 22nd
1876: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikosky finishes composing Swan Lake, the ballet. An initial failure, the show is now known as one of the most famous shows of all time.
1923: Bettie Page is born in Nashville. She was an American pin-up model and called the “Queen of Pin-ups” along with the “Dark Angel.”
Wednesday, April 21st
1536: Thomas Cromwell starts to surmise Anne Boleyn’s downfall. It is projected that his influence with King Henry allowed him to convince him that Anne was unfaithful.
1956: Elvis Presley has his first hit. Heartbreak Hotel, hits number one and remains there for seven weeks.
Tuesday, April 20th
1611: The first known performance of Macbeth occurs at the Globe Theatre. Simon Forman documents Shakespeare’s tragedy.
1914: Erza Pound, poet, marries Dorothy Shakespear. Her parents did not like the marriage but allowed it as she had no other options.
Monday, April 19th
1934: Child actress Shirley Temple makes her first movie appearance in Stand Up & Cheer. Her charm won her role after role, brightening up the dark times post-depression.
1997: Andre Agassi, renowned tennis player, marries Brooke Shields in California. The pair were only married for two years before splitting.
Sunday, April 18th
1956: Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco marry in a civil ceremony, their church wedding took place the following day. The two had two children together before Kelly’s death in 1982 due to injuries from a car accident.
2013: Iron Man 3 premieres in London. This movie explores the complex relationship between Iron Man and his girlfriend, Pepper Potts.
Saturday, April 17th
1941: Doris Day marries first husband trombone player Albert Jorden. She married four times total.
1977: I Love My Wife has its opening day at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in NYC. The show ran for 864 performances.
Friday, April 16th
1913: Lester “Les” Tremayne is born in London. The Dream Wife and The Racket were among his most popular romances.
2005: One Tree Hill co-stars Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray marry in Santa Monica, California. The two divorced a year later, making things at work very awkward, as they were an on-again off-again TV couple.
Thursday, April 15th
1987: Driving Miss Daisy premieres in NYC. The film explores the importance of friendship as a substitute to lovers long gone.
2011: Christina Aguilera files to divorce music executive Jordan Bratman. The two have a son together and were together for five years before their split.
Wednesday, April 14th
1970: Boy Friend makes it opening at Ambassador Theater. The show was Julie Andrews American debut and ran for 119 performances.
1994: Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley publicly announce they will be divorcing. The two were married for nine years and had a daughter.
Tuesday, April 13th
1957: At the 11th Tony Awards My Fair Lady wins for outstanding musical. Judy Holiday wins leading actress for Bells are Ringing.
1980: Grease has its last performance at the Broadhurst Theater in NYC after 3,388 performances. The show was revived many times and won countless awards.
Monday, April 12th
1992: Revival of Tennessee Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire starring Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in NYC. The show runs for 137 performances.
2014: Actress Ginnifer Goodwin marries Josh Dallas in L.A. The two have two children together.
Sunday, April 11th
1689: William III and Mary II are declared the joint rulers of Ireland, Scotland and England. He married his cousin to ensure they maintained the crown.
1992: Superman actor Christopher Reeves marries actress Dana Morosini in Massachusetts. The two remained together until his death in 2004.
Saturday, April 10th
1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby is published. The novel is widely regarded as one of the best books of the 20th century.
1995: Gentleman Prefer Blondes makes its opening at the Lyceum Theater in NYC. The show ran for 24 performances before closing.
Friday, April 9th
2005: Charles, Princes of Wales, finally marries Camilla Parker Bowles. The two had been an item for decades, and during their own previous marriages, before their eventual marriage.
2012: Marc Anthony files to divorce pop superstar Jennifer Lopez after their seven-year marriage. The two were long-time friends and had twins together.
Thursday, April 8th
1766: First fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley and chain
1984: The movie adaptation of Harold Robbins’ Lonely Lady starring Pia Isadora wins at the fourth annual Golden Raspberry Awards. The movie chronicles a woman’s struggle to find a non-abusive relationship.
Wednesday, April 7th
1805: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Eroica premieres. The concert is one of Beethoven’s best received and begins his creative expression.
2003: Russell Crowe marries singer Danielle Spencer at his 560-acre farm in New South Wales, Australia. The two have two children together.
Tuesday, April 6th
1327: Italian superpoet Petrarch first sees beloved Laura. She became the center of his works and poetry chronically his obsession with her.
2012: German model Heidi Klum files to divorce Seal, singer-songwriter. The two have three children together.
Monday, April 5th
1614: Pocahontas, the daughter of chief Powhatan tribe, marries English colonist John Rolfe. Their relationship is romanticized in the movie Pocahontas.
1895: Oscar Wilde loses his libel suit. The Marquess of Queensberry said he was engaging in homosexual practices with his son.
Sunday, April 4th
1958: Cheryl Crane stabs mother, Lana Turner’s boyfriend Johnny Stompanato to death. Turmer was continually abused by Stompanto, who due to mob ties initially lied about his identity to date her before escalating to violence.
2008: Beyoncé Knowles marries Jay-Z in a NYC penthouse. Despite cheating rumors against Jay-Z, the pair have stuck together and went on tour together this year, three children in tow.
Saturday, April 3rd
1920: F. Scott Fitzgerald marries Zelda Sayre in NYC’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Both were writers and Scott frequently stole her works to publish as his own.
1953: TV Guide publishes a picture of a baby on the front cover for their first issue. The baby is the new born of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Friday, April 2nd
1977: Fleetwood Mac’s album Rumours hits the number one spot and remains there for 31 weeks. They wanted to emulate past success with the 11th studio album but relationship break up made the process extremely difficult.
1992: Hamlet opens for 45 performances at the Criterion Theater in NYC. Stephen Lang’s performance as Hamlet was not well received and the show received criticism for lack of direction.
Thursday, April 1st
527: Emperor Justin I dictates his nephew will be the co-ruler with him and then succeed him on the throne. The Byzantine Emperor Justin was married to Anastasius who died without children, so he passed the throne on to her family.
1984: Movie director Joel Coen, of the Coen Brothers, marries Frances McDormand. The two have worked on countless films together, many with McDormand as the star.
Wednesday, March 31st
1999: Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger star in 10 Things I Hate About You. The movie is a modern reworking of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare.
2010: James Van Der Beek divorces Heather McComb. The pair was married for seven years before the split.
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Tuesday, March 30th
1983: Run for your Wives premieres in London. A London cabbie with two wives must juggle his complex life with the help from neighbors to smooth things out with the wives.
2004: Jennifer Garner divorces Scott Foley. Both have remarried, although Garner is currently divorced from second husband Ben Affleck.
Monday, March 29th
1929: Ginger Rogers marries her dancing partner, Jack Pepper. She remarried four other times.
2014: Same sex couples are free to marry in the UK. The Marriage Act of 2013 allows marriage for all same sex couples.
Sunday, March 28th
1794: The Louvre opens to the public for viewing.
1996: Angelina Jolie marries Jonny Lee Miller. It is her second marriage, after Billy Bob Thorton.
Saturday, March 27th
1613: Nicholas Guy and wife have a child in Canada. It is the first English child to be born in Canada.
1971: Mariah Carey is born in New York City. Her first five singles all top charts including, “Visions of Love” and “Emotions.”
Friday, March 26th
1973: The Young and the Restless makes it’s TV soap premiere on CBS. The show has had over 11,000 episodes
2011: Reese Witherspoon marries Jim Toth in California. It is Witherspoon’s second marriage and she had one son from it.
Thursday, March 25th
1969: Yoko Ono and John Lennon hold their first “bed-in” for peace. The pair used their 1969 marriage press to highlight the possibility of world peace.
2005: Jennifer Aniston files to divorce Brad Pitt. He was rumored to be cheating on her with co-star and future wife Angelina Jolie.
Wednesday March 24th
1603: James VI, the son of Mary Queen of Scots, is now King James I of England. The English and Scottish crowns are merged.
1984: David Hasselhof marries One Life to Live star Catherine Hickland. Their marriage scene was recreated on Knight Rider season four.
Tuesday, March 23rd
1985: Singer/songwriter Billy Joel marries model Christie Brinkley. The two had a daughter before their divorce in 1994.
2015: Kris and Bruce Jenner file to divorce after 13 years of marriage and two children. Their relationship was well documented on Keeping up with the Kardashians.
Monday, March 22nd
1991: Pamela Smart is found guilty of brainwashing her student-lover to murder her husband. She was having sex with her student and told him that she would stop unless he killed her husband and used his friends to do it.
1994: Tim McGraw’s second album is released, Not a Moment Too Soon. The album wins Billboard Album of the Year in 1994.
Sunday, March 21st
1940: Rebecca premieres in Miami. Hitchcock’s reworking of Daphne du Maurier’s book was his first American film and features a thrilling romance.
1945: Humphrey Bogart marries Lauren Bacall at Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield’s country home in Ohio. The marriage lasted 11 years, until Bogart’s death. Bacall remarried actor Jason Robards after Bogart’s death.
Saturday March 20th
1970: David Bowie marries model Angie Bowie in London. The pair later divorced, after having a son, Zowie Bowie, who changed his name to Duncan Jones as an adult, and has become a successful film director of such movies as Source Code and Warcraft.
1995: The Beatles release “Baby It’s You.” It is the first single featuring all four Beatles in over 30 years.
Friday, March 19th
1924: E.E. Cummings, American poet, marries Elaine Orr, a woman who was married to one of his Harvard classmates. The pair was only married nine months before the break-up despite Orr leaving her husband for Cummings and having a child out of wedlock with him.
1964: The first day of shooting Goldfinger. Sean Connery and Shirley Eaton become the first iconic James Bond and Bond Girl duo.
Thursday, March 18th
1992: Donna Summer finally gets her star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The Queen of Disco’s hits include, “Last Dance, “MacArthur Park,” I Feel Love,” “Hot Stuff” and “Love to Love you Baby.”
2012: Jennie Garth files to divorce Twilight star Peter Facinelli. They were married for 11 years.
Wednesday, March 17th
1905: Eleanor Roosevelt marries cousin Franklin Roosevelt. President Teddy Roosevelt gives away Eleanor.
2017: Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast premieres. The live-action remake of the animated film was done by Bill Condon.
Tuesday, March 16th
1946: Booth Theater’s Would-Be Gentleman closes. The play features a demonstration on how to be the perfect gentleman in the 1600’s.
1991: Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization holds a march in NYC parade.
Monday, March 15th
1933: Birthdate of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish female Supreme Court justice and the second female justice.
2019: Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg
Sunday March 14th
1988: The first organized Pi Day at the San Francisco Exploratorium was held by physicist Larry Shaw who had the idea to celebrate the day by marching around a circle and then eating some pies
2017: World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for first time in 273 years
Saturday, March 13th
1905: Dancer and spy Mata Hari first performs her dance act at the Guimet Museum, Paris
2020: Breonna Taylor, African American medical technician, shot and killed by police officers in her home at 26
Friday, March 12th
1894: Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi
1994: The Church of England ordains its first ever 33 female priests
Thursday, March 11th
1302: Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1918: US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented case of Spanish flu; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million
Wednesday, March 10th
1914: Suffragettes in London damage Rokeby's painting Venus of Velasquez
1975: "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" live musical opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
Tuesday, March 9th
1796: French Leader Napoléon Bonaparte (26) marries 1st wife Joséphine de Beauharnais (32), changing her name from Rose
1959: Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.
Monday, March 8th
1910: Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris becomes the 1st ever licensed female pilot
1952: Future US President Ronald Reagan (41) marries Nancy Davis (30) at the Little Brown Church in San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles
Sunday, March 7th
1946: At the 18th Academy Awards The Lost Weekend wins four awards. Jane Wyman and Ray Milland star as a couple struggling through the trials of alcoholism.
1955: Peter Pan starring Mary Martin is first televised. The Broadway play is adapted for a TV movie special with the entire Broadway cast.
Saturday, March 6th
1964: Elizabeth Taylor finalizes her fourth divorce. This time from singer and actor Eddie Fisher.
1985: Yul Brynner makes his 4,500th performances as The King in The King & I. He eventually married his The King & I co-star Kathy Lee.
Friday, March 5th
1974: Actress Eva Mendes is born in Miami. She has been married to Ryan Gosling since 2011, with whom she has two children.
1978: Hello, Dolly! Starring Carol Channing makes it opening at Lunt-Fontanne Theater in NYC. The show runs for 152 performances and was the second revival of the show.
Thursday, March 4th
1522: Anne Boleyn enters English Court for the first time during the Green Castle pageant. This established her as a coveted woman and began her courting by King Henry VIII
1960: Lucille Ball files to divorces husband Desi Arnaz. The two were co-stars on I Love Lucy until Arnaz’s cheating got the best of their relationship.
Wednesday, March 3rd
1985: Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepard star in Moonlighting. ABC’s show features a budding romance and manages to mix romance, comedy and drama in a TV show for one of the first times.
1995: Future Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles gets a divorce from husband Andrew. She started dating Prince Charles publicly in 1999, but the two have admitted they were together during both of their marriages.
Tuesday, March 2nd
1882: Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor.
1944: Casablanca wins big at the 16th Academy Awards. It collects awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Monday, March 1 st
1950: After 12 years of marriage, Ingrid Bergman and dentist Petter Aron Lindstrom get divorced. The two had one daughter together (Pia) before Bergman had an affair with movie director Roberto Rossellini during their shooting of Stromboli.
1973: Pink Floyd release their album Dark Side of the Moon, which has since sold over 45 million copies.
Sunday, February 28th
1909: First National Woman's Day is observed in the United States. Organized by the Socialist Party of America in honor of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protested against working conditions.
1933: Frances Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor, first female in US Cabinet
Saturday, February 27th
2004: Solange Knowles marries Daniel Smith in Grand Bahama Island. The two have a son before their divorce due to their youthful marriage.
2011: At the Academy Awards The King’s Speech wins. Colin Furth also wins for his role as Henry, depicting his relationship with his therapist.
Friday February 26th
1932: Country star Johnny Cash was born in Arkansas. He has many duets with his future wife, June Carter.
2009: Supermodel Gisele Bundchen and NFL player Tom Brady get married in Santa Monica. The two were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend. They have two children.
Thursday. February 25th
1570: Pope Pius V makes Queen Elizabeth I absolved from her subjects. She is responsible for the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots.
1988: Bruce Springsteen’s “Tunnel of Love” tour starts in Massachusetts. It was one of Springsteen’s shortest tours as he was having marriage problems with his first wife, actress Julianne Phillips.
Wednesday, February 24th
1992: Courtney Love marries Kurt Cobain in Honolulu. Cobain wore plaid pajamas to the event while Love wore a lace and satin dress.
1999: “My Heart Will Go On” by Céline Dion wins at the 41st Grammy Awards. The song was the theme song from Titanic.
Tuesday February 23rd
1999: Queer as Folk makes its premiere on British TV. The show is set around a group of homosexual friends and their lives.
2013: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn- Part 2 wins at the Golden Raspberry Awards. The awards name the worst film in media.
Monday, February 22nd
1934: Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert’s film It Happened One Night opens at Radio City Music Hall. The director, actor, actress, and screenplay all win awards at the Academy Awards.
2008: Pamela Anderson files to divorce Rick Salomon. They were only married for two months before their divorce due to irreconcilable differences. She married and diovirced him again in 2014.
Sunday. February 21st
1927: Hubert de Givenchy is born in France. The designer created Audrey Hepburn’s little black dress in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and then founded the design house Givenchy in 1952.
1952: Elizabeth Taylor marries her second husband, actor Michael Wilding. This was a low-key marriage ceremony reflecting what she wanted from a relationship.
Saturday, February 20th
1974: Cher and Sonny Bono file for divorce after 10 years, two kids and a successful TV show. Cher puts forth the initial paperwork.
1988: Robyn Rihanna Fenty is born in Barbados. Rihanna’s third album Good Girl Gone Bad, marked her entrance into American icon status.
Friday, February 19th
1963: The English singer Seal is born as Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel in London. His most celebrated song is called Kiss from a Rose.
1995: Baywatch star Pamela Anderson marries rock star Tommy Lee in Cancun. They had met only four days before the wedding and made what many consider to be the first celebrity sex tape.
Thursday, February 18th
1933: Fluxus Artist Yoko Ono is born in Tokyo. She becomes John Lennon’s second wife and then mother to their son. Sean.
1998: Andrea Bocelli has his first opera performance in Cagliari. He performs as Rodolfo in La Boheme at the Teatro Comunale.
Wednesday, February 17th
1981: Paris Hilton is born in New York City. Heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, she ultimately made a name for her self with a sex tape as well as singing, acting and the branding of her name.
2016: A 50,000 year-old Neanderthal woman’s remains are found with Homo Sapiens DNA. This proves humans and Neanderthals had sex.
Tuesday, February 16th
1938: Bringing Up Baby featuring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant premieres. The film is known for being a romantic comedy but did not help Hepburn’s status as an actress.
1982: Hollywood couple Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors get a divorce. Their busy schedules are cited as one of the main reasons behind their divorce.
Monday, February 15th
1812: Charles Lewis Tiffany is born in Connecticut. He becomes the jeweler Tiffany, king of engagement rings.
1996: Sense and Sensibility wins the Golden Bear award at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. The movie is a take on Jane Austen’s book and stars Elinor Dashwood and Kate Winslet.
Sunday, February 14th
1919: Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (39) divorces his first wifr, Slovenian mathematician Mileva Maric, with whom he had three children, after 16 years of marriage.
1984: Elton John gets married to sound engineer Renate Bauel in Sydney. They were married for four years, but he later stated it was a cover-up for his homosexuality.
Saturday, February 13th
1917: Mata Hari, an exotic Dutch spy, is imprisoned in Paris. It is suspected that she is a German spy and was then executed via firing squad.
1972: Liza Minnelli and Michael York’s musical based film Cabaret opens. The film about Germany between the World Wars was very controversial due to the sexualized content.
Friday, February 12th
1947: Christian Dior showcases his first collection. Harper’s Bazaar dubs the pieces “New Look”.
2017: At the 59th Grammy Awards Adele wins Best Song for "Hello" and Best Album for 25.
Thursday, February 11th
1962: American singer Sheryl Crow is born in Missouri. She has written songs for others such as Celine Dion and Tina Turner.
1969: American actress Jennifer Aniston is born in Los Angeles. She played Rachel on Friends and became an American icon through her on-again off-again relationship with Ross Geller and her marriage to Brad Pitt.
Wednesday, February 10th
1974: Actress Elizabeth Banks is born in Massachusetts. She is known for her roles in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
2011: Camille Grammer, a retired Playboy model, files to divorce “Frazier” star Kelsey Grammer. The two were married for 14 years and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills recorded some of the drama.
Tuesday, February 9th
1985: Madonna’s number one album Like a Virgin remains at number one for the third straight week. The album is considered the defining moment in Madonna’s career, cementing her status as a pop icon.
2011: Nicki Minaj’s album Pink Friday hits Billboard’s number one after being on the charts 11 weeks. The album was Minaj’s debut album including singles “Your Love” and “Moment for Life.”
Monday, February 8th
1921: Actress Lana Turner is born in Idaho. She had much controversy surrounding her life when her daughter stabbed her lover in the stomach after an alleged domestic struggle.
1980: After nine years of marriage, David and Angie Bowie divorce. She claims he had a relationship with Mick Jagger once he came out as bisexual.
Sunday, February 7th
1812: British poet Lord Byron gives the House of Lords his maiden speech. He is known as one of the best poets of the romantic period.
1995: Alison Krauss’ bluegrass/country album Now that I’ve Found You is released. The compilation album covers many of Krauss’ hits including “Baby, Now that I’ve Found You,” and “When You Say Nothing at All.”
Saturday, February 6th
1952: King George VI’s crown is given to Queen Elizabeth II. She still holds the crown at age 94, the longest reigning British monarch, exceeding previous record-holder Queen Victoria.
1981: Brady Bunch spin-off Brady Brides makes it premier on NBC TV. The show highlights Marcia and Jan’s married lives before sharing a residence.
Friday, February 5th
1942: Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star in Woman of the Year, directed by George Stevens. The movie opens at Radio City and highlights the struggles of a working women in a relationship.
1985: Portuguese heartthrob Cristiano Ronaldo is born. The soccer player is known for his incredible looks and skills on the field.
Thursday, February 4th
1921: Betty Friedan was born in Illinois. Her book The Feminine Mystique is credited with helping create second wave feminism in the U.S.
1939: Frank Sinatra weds his first wife, Nancy Barbato. Sinatra only married her after an “incident” leading to his arrest and proposal.
Wednesday, February 3rd
1976: Australian actress Isla Fisher is born in Scotland. She stars in Wedding Crashers, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Definitely, Maybe and Bachelorette and is married to Sasha Baron Cohen.
2015: Actor Johnny Depp marries actress Amber Heard in their Los Angeles home. The two have since had a rocky relationship, leading to their 2017 divorce and a number of abuse trials.
Tuesday, February 2nd
1985: O.J. Simpson marries his second wife, Nicole Brown. He later was acquitted of murdering her and her boyfriend.
2009: RuPaul’s Drag Race makes it premiere with RuPaul as the host. The show has had over 13 seasons and has won a number of Primetime Emmies.
Monday, February 1st
1327: A teenaged Edward III is named King of England. Mother Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, her lover, get the ruling overturned so she retains the crown.
1986: Diana Ross marries second husband Arne Naess. Ross considers Naess the love of her life, even after a divorce related to his illegitimate Nordic child during their marriage.
Sunday, January 31st
1957: Elizabeth Taylor finalizes her second divorce. She and Michael Wilding were married for five years.
1981: Justin Timberlake, former member of the boy band N’Sync, singer/songwriter, (“Bring Sexy Back” “My Love”) is born in Memphis, Tennessee.
Saturday, January 30th
1934: Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali marries the ex wife of French poet Paul Éluard, Gala, in a Parisian civil ceremony. They remarried in 1958.
1961: Patsy Cline releases “I Fall to Pieces. ” The song wins Billboard song of the Year in 1961.
Friday, January 29th
1951: Elizabeth Taylor has her first divorce. She files to divorce hotel heir Conrad Hilton Jr.
1958: Paul Newman marries Joanne Woodward in Las Vegas. The two were married until Newman’s death in 2008.
Thursday, January 28th
1925: Actress Gloria Swanson marries Henri de le Falaise in Paris. Swanson married six times in her lifetime.
2011: Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria files for a divorce from NBA player Tony Parker. The two had a fairytale wedding three years previously.
Wednesday, January 27th
1997: Actor Charlie Sheen gets a divorce from Donna Peele. The two were only married for five months before ending it.
2004: Usher drops the single “Yeah!” The song wins a Grammy for Best Rap in 2005 and is the Billboard song of the year
Tuesday, January 26th
1940: American actor Ronald Raegan marries Brother Rat co-star Jane Wyman in California. The pair had two children, one who died in infancy, and one adopted child before their divorce in 1949.
1998: President Bill Clinton announces, “I want to say one thing to the American people: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” The acts allegedly happened from 1995-1997. He was later brought up on impeachment charges for lying before a grand jury.
Monday, January 25th
1533: King of England Henry VIII gets married for the second time to Anne Boleyn. She was an important ally for his fear of the Catholic Church.
2009: Precious, the movie based on the novel Push by Sapphire, wins the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival. The movie is based on Precious’ abusive relationship with her mother and her father.
Sunday, January 24th
1935: First canned beer, "Krueger's Cream Ale," is sold by American company Krueger Brewing Co.
2004: Actress Selma Blair marries producer Ahmet Zappa, son of Frank Zappa, in Carrie Fisher’s Beverly Hills mansion. The pair divorced two years later.
Saturday, January 23rd
1832: Artist Edouard Manet is born in Paris, France. He is known from his beautiful impressionist paintings.
1986: The first induction of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame takes place. Elvis and Buddy Holly are among the inductees.
Friday, January 22nd
1968: Aretha Franklin drops her 14th album. Lady Soul wins Billboard Album of the Year for 1968.
2005: Donald Trump marries Melania Knauss in Palm Beach, Florida. It was Melania’s first marriage and Donald’s third.
Thursday, January 21st
1966: Beatles member George Harrison gets married to Patti Boyd, English model. The pair got a divorced in 1977 before she married his friend, Eric Clapton.
1994: Lorena Bobbitt is found temporarily insane after she sliced off her husband’s penis in bed. It was then later surgically reattached at the base. The pair divorced the following year.
Wednesday, January 20th
1968: Sharon Tate, actress, marries director Roman Polanski in London. Tate was murdered by the Manson clan while eight and a half months pregnant with their first child.
1971: John Lennon gets to meet Yoko Ono’s parents. This is the first time he meets them in Japan after a period of strain due to Lennon’s drug use.
Tuesday, January 19th
1946: American country star Dolly Parton is born in Tennessee. She has written over 3,000 songs, including the double-singer hit “I Will Always Love You,” also sung by Whitney Houston.
1977: Hollywood icon Martin Scorsese files to divorce Julia Cameron. The pair were only married for one year.
Monday, January 18th
1974: Poet Maya Angelou marries Paul Bernard Du Feu, who had previously been wed to the feminist writer Germaine Greer, ended in divorce.
1996: Lisa Marie Presley applies for a divorce from Michael Jackson. The day before Jackson had told Presley he had planned to file for divorce, but she begged him not to, only to do the same the next day.
Sunday, January 17th
1955: Charles Manson marries Rosalie Jean Willis, who gave birth to their first child while he was serving time in prison for raping a boy at knifepoint, before getting a divorce.
1976: Barry Manilow’s “I Write the Songs” hits number one. The song also gave Manilow a Grammy award for Song of the Year.
Saturday, January 16th
1954: Alexina Sattler marries French-American painter Marcel Duchamp in New York City. The pair remained together until Marcel’s death in 1968.
2005: Adriana lliescu is the oldest woman in the world to give birth. At 66 years-old Iliescu gave birth to a daughter.
Friday, January 15th
2018: Renounced photographers Bruce Weber and Mario Testino are suspended from their positions across magazines. The New York Times released information alleging the two partaking in sexual harassment of male models.
2018: Simone Biles, U.S. four-time Olympics gold medalist comes forward and says Dr. Larry Nassar sexually assaulted her. Nassar was accused of more than 130 cases of sexual assault.
Thursday, January 14th
1954: Yankees legend Joe DiMaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe. This was Monroe’s second marriage at the San Francisco City Hall after marrying James Dougherty.
1967: Sonny and Cher’s single “The Beat Goes On” is released. The song was a part of their 1967 album In Case You’re in Love.
Wednesday, January 13th
1895: Oscar Wilde’s play Ideal Husband makes its premier in London. His name was removed from the playbill due to his arrest for sodomy.
2006: Actress Shelley Winters marries Gerry Deford on her deathbed. The pair had been partners for 19 years before their marriage.
Tuesday, January 12th
1684: French King Louis XIV marries the widow Madame Maintenon, Although she was never considered queen of France, she was one of the King's closest advisers and the royal children's governess.
1995: O.J. Simpson begins his murder trial in Los Angeles. Simpson was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend.
Monday, January 11th
1971: The United Kingdom allows the first “quickie” divorce. This now made it possible to state “breakdown” as the reason behind a marriage’s failure.
2018: China has their first big #MeToo event. Beijing’s Beihang’s University fires a professor for alleged sexual misconduct against a student.
Sunday, January 10th
1810: The French church annuls the marriage between Napoleon I and the Empress Josephine. He had adopted her son from her previous marriage before their inevitable separation.
2009: Singer Fergie marries actor Josh Duhamel in Malibu, California. The pair had a son before their separation in 2017.
Saturday, January 9th
1431: The trial of Joan of Arc begins. Judges investigate the English occupational government for her involvement.
1908: Simone de Beauvoir is born in Paris, known for her books The Mandarins and The Second Sex, as well as her unconventional relationship with John-Paul Sartre
Friday, January 8th
1499: Louis XII of France gets a papal divorce in order to marry Anne, the Duchess of Brittany. He was determined to keep the crown and was willing to do anything to do so.
1930: Belgian Princess Marie-Jose weds Italy’s crown prince Umberto. The pair had four children together.
Thursday, January 7th
1971: American best-selling author Stephen King marries fellow author Tabitha Spruce. The pair have three children.
1985: Eighteen year-old Janet Jackson files to divorce James DeBarge, another singer. The pair were only married four months.
Wednesday, January 6th
1759: George Washington weds Martha Dandridge Custis at what becomes the White House Plantation. This was Martha’s second marriage.
1994: US ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is hit in the leg by Tonya Harding’s bodyguards. Harding’s boyfriend supposedly hired the hit on Kerrigan so Harding would have a better chance at winning.
Tuesday, January 5th
1939: Famous female aviator Amelia Areheart formally declared dead at 41 after disappearing over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in a presumed plane crash
1959: Buddy Holly’s last record, It Doesn’t Matter, is released. He died in a plane crash 29 days later.
Monday, January 4th
2001: Rapper Vanilla Ice goes to jail for ripping out the hair of his wife, when fighting in the car. The two later were sentenced to family therapy sessions, due to the feud.
2007: The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House
Sunday, January 3rd
1431: Joan of Arc is given to Bishop Pierre Cauchon after escaping from her prison tower. The Burgundian and English made arrangements for her movement before her trial.
1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s first album, “2 Virgins,” is named pornographic in NJ, as the cover featured the two artists naked on the front cover. The album was also considered scandalous as Lennon was still married at the time.
Saturday, January 2nd
1983: Duke Ellington’s play Sophisticated Ladies closes in NYC after 767 performances.
1989: The Billboard song of the year, “Superwoman,” is released as a single by Karyn White. The song has since been covered by a number of artists, such as Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick.
Friday, January 1st
2019: In Austria, same-sex marriage is legal. It was voted upon in December of 2017, but took a long time before legal action was taken.
2019: Women, by the millions, formed a 300-mile long wall of women across India. The “Women’s Wall,” was formed to support women’s access to the temple of Sabarimala.
Thursday, December 31st
1989: After 1420 performances the Stephen Fry revival of Me & My Girl closes. The Marquis Theater in NYC held the show from 1985 until 1989.
1997: Actor Will Smith marries Jada Pinkett in Baltimore. The pair have two children, Jaden and Willow.
Wednesday, December 30th
1816: English poet Percy Shelley marries his second wife, Mary Godwin. Godwin goes on to write Frankenstein and was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft.
1918: Al Capone’s son, Sonny, gets married in Miami. Sonny weds Mae after she had their baby earlier that year.
Tuesday, December 29th
1965: The Supremes drop “My World is Empty Without You.” It was one of their first songs that did not reach number one.
2006: One Tree Hill co-stars Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray divorce. Bush cited fraud for the reason behind the marriage breaking.
Monday, December 28th
1942: A 14 year-old Janet Leigh files a divorce from 18 year-old John Carlisle. The two were married for four months.
2008: Actor Woody Harrelson marries Laura Louie. Louie had been Harrelson’s assistant before their relationship started.
Sunday, December 27th
1937: Mae West performs an Adam and Eve skit. The ski gets her banned from NBC radio.
2002: Chicago, the movie, premieres with Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, and Catherine Zeta Jones. The movie is based on the musical and won the Best Picture Oscar in 2003.
Saturday, December 26th
1940: George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story premieres. The movie stars Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
1993: American comedian Rodney Dangerfield marries Joan Child. The two got married in Las Vegas and remained married until Child’s death.
Friday, December 25th
1945: John Wayne gets a divorce from Josephine Saenz. The two had been married for 12 years.
1967: Paul McCartney of The Beatles gets engaged to Jane Asher. Asher broke off the engagement after McCartney was supposedly unfaithful.
Thursday, December 24th
1922: American actress Ava Gardner is born in North Carolina. She is known as one of the top 25 greatest film stars of the classic period.
1990: Actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman marry. The two have two adopted children together but divorced in 2001.
Wednesday, December 23rd
1815: Emma, Jane Austen’s romance novel, is released in London. The book was the fourth of her romances to be released.
1997: Woody Allen marries Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his ex-girlfriend, Mia Farrow. Allen has been married to Previn for 23 years and they have two children.
Tuesday, December 22nd
1932: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ first movie together premieres. Flying Down to Rio opens in NYC.
1965: Doctor Zhivago premieres in NYC. The movie is based on Boris Pasternak’s novel.
Monday, December 21st
1914: The first full-length film is released. The silent film Tillie’s Punctured Romance premieres starring Charlie Chapman.
1991: CNN founder Ted Turner marries Jane Fonda. The marriage takes place at Turner’s home in Northern Florida.
Sunday, December 20th
1949: Gone with the Wind star Clark Gable marries Sylvia Ashley. She was the fourth out of Gable’s eventual five wives.
2005: Scotland has its first same sex civil partnership. As of 2013, the LGBTQ+ community has the right to marriage in Scotland.
Saturday December 19th
1980: Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull opens in the USA. Robert DeNiro plays a boxer while Cathy Moirarty plays his wife.
1995: Queen Elizabeth formally asks her son, Prince Charles to divorce Princess Diana. The two completed the divorce in 1996.
Friday, December 18th
1926: The day after his ballet Casse-noisette premieres, Pyotr Tchikovski premieres another ballet. This time Tchikovsky showcases Nutcracker Suite.
1926: Actor George Murphy marries his ballroom dancing co-partner, Juliette Henkel. The two were married until Henkel’s death in 1973.
Thursday, December 17th
1892: Pyotr Tchikovski’s ballet Casse-noisette makes it premiere. He was known for writing intense opera music.
1994: Twenty-six year old Canadian pop legend Celine Dion marries her 52 year old manager Rene Angelil. The two were married until his death in 2016.
Wednesday, December 16th
1809: Napoleon Bonaparte gets a divorce from Empress Josephine via the French Senate. She had lovers and he adopted her children before the divorce.
1950: Shirley Temple weds her second husband, a naval officer, Charles Alden. The couple were married for 54 years and had two children.
Tuesday, December 15th
1939: Gone With the Wind premieres in Atlanta. It receives the Best Picture Oscar of 1940.
1985: Sylvester Stallone marries “Rocky IV” co-actor Bridgitte Nielsen in Beverly Hills. The two later starred together in Cobra.
Monday, December 14th
1978: Ballroom, a play about a widow who finds happiness in ballroom dancing with an apparently married man, opens at the Majestic Theater. It runs for 116 shows.
1984: Broadway star Bette Midler marries Martin Von Hasselberg in Las Vegas. The pair have been married since then.
Sunday, December 13th
1989: Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy star in Bruce Beresford’s Driving Miss Daisy. It wins Best Picture in 1990.
2017: Actress Salma Hayek claims that directing mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed her. She further accuses that he threatened to murder her.
Saturday, December 12th
1991: Actor Richard Gere, known as one of the 1980’s biggest male sex symbols, marries American supermodel Cindy Crawford. The two remained married for four years before a divorce in 1995.
2014: Nick Cannon files to divorce Mariah Carey. The pair were married for six years and have twins together.
Friday, December 11th
1936: British king Edward VII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating he throne to marry the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson.
2015: Hugh Heifner’s Playboy magazine’s last issue with naked women in it. Pamela Anderson dons the cover.
Thursday, December 10th
1947: Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald marries bassist Ray Brown. The pair adopted a child together, before splitting in 1953.
1978: Superman: The Movie premieres at Washington D.C.’s Uptown Theater. The movie stars Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder.
Wednesday, December 9th
1854: Alfred Tennyson’s poem Charge of the Light Brigade is first published in The Examiner. The poem’s real-life events had occurred only six weeks before its publication.
1964: John Coltrane’s Quartet Plays records A Love Supreme. The album was recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and is considered to be their greatest work.
Tuesday December 8th
1872: Religious leader Brigham Young marries his 55th wife, Hannah Tapfield. Young was 71 at the time. It is rumored that 25 years after his death he had over 1000 living relatives.
1952: First acknowledgement of pregnancy on television on I Love Lucy, as Lucille Ball and husband Ricky Ricardo prepare to welcome their son little Ricky to the world and TV audiences.
Monday, December 7th
1940: Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo remarry after their divorce in 1939. The pair married in San Francisco, but had many affairs.
2017: Same-sex marriage is legalized in Australia. The first same-sex marriage in Australia was held December 15th.
Sunday, December 6th
1930: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and author, marries Marie Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia. The pair had a child, but after their divorce in 1938, Neruda never saw his ex-wife or daughter again.
1933: The United States lifts the ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses. The novel featured masturbation which was considered obscene.
Saturday December 5th
1956: Thorton Wilder’s play Matchmaker makes its premiere in NYC. The play ran for over 400 performances and has been reproduced many times.
2003: Coldplay singer Chris Martin marries actress Gwyneth Paltrow at the San Ysidro Ranch, Montecito California. The pair split in 2014, before officially divorcing in 2016.
Friday, December 4th
1999: Crown Prince Phillippe of Belgium marries Countess Mathilde of Belgium in Brussels. The two have sat on the throne since 2013.
2015: Actors Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas divorce following 19 years of marriage. The two had met on the set of Two Much and started dating during filming.
Thursday, December 3rd
1960: Julianne Moore is born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Her work includes The End of the Affair, Boogie Nights, The Hours, and Crazy, Stupid, Love.
1984: The world’s oldest groom gets married. Harry Stevens is 103 when he marries his bride Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin.
Wednesday, December 2nd
1933: The 1st transatlantic telephone wedding occurs. Bertil Clason and Singrid Carlson are married via the phone.
1946: Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace is born in Calabria, Italy. His fashion influences changed international fashion before his murder in 1997.
Tuesday, December 1st
1994: Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere announce their separation. The pair finalized their divorce in 1995, before both remarrying.
2012: The Bachelorette star Ashley Hebert marries Bachelorette contestant J.P. Rosenbaum in Pasadena, California. The two met on the show and have 2 children together.
Monday, November 30th
1974: Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression
1940: "I Love Lucy" actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut
Sunday, November 29th
1832: Louisa May Alcott was born. Her novels remain as popular today as when they were first published in the 19th Century. Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys were semi-autobiographical, based on the life of Alcott and her own three sisters.
2001: George Harrison, English musician, singer and songwriter who became famous as the lead guitarist of the Beatles died of lung cancer at the age of 58. Most Beatles albums included at least one Harrison song, including "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something," which became the Beatles' second-most-covered song
Saturday, November 28th
1582 Playwright and poet William Shakespeare (18) marries Anne Hathaway (26) (date of the marriage license)
1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies win them stays of execution
Friday, November 27th
2006: Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson (39) divorces singer Kid Rock (36) due to irreconcilable differences only four months after getting married.
2013: Actor Ashton Kutcher (35) divorces actress Demi Moore (51) due to irreconcilable differences after eight years of marriage.
Thursday, November 26th
1865: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is published in the United States.
1962: Singer Tina Turner (23) weds Ike Turner (31) in Tijuana, Mexico.
Wednesday, November 25th
1971: Christina Applegate is born in Hollywood. The actress stared in Married with Children before transitioning to a movie career.
2002: Nicolas Cage files for divorcee from Lisa Marie Presley due to differences, after being married for three months. Their divorce proceedings finalized in May of 2004; the divorcee took exponentially longer than the marriage.
Tuesday, November 24th
1978: Actress Katherine Heigl is born in Washington D.C. Her rise to fame started with a Wilhelmina Model contract before transitioning into acting on TV’s Grey’s Anatomy and later film.
2001: Angel star David Boreanaz marries Playmate of the Month Jamie Bergman, at Ingleside Inn at Palm Springs, California. The pair have two children together.
Monday, November 23rd
1991: Queen lead-singer, Freddie Mercury confirms he has AIDS. He dies the following day from AID’s related complications.
1992: American singer and actress Miley Cyrus is born in Nashville, Tennessee to parents Trish and Billy-Ray Cyrus. After rising to fame from her hit Disney Channel TV show, based on her alter-ego Hannah Montana, Cyrus launched her music career with her album Can’t Be Tamed.
Sunday, November 22nd
1924: Geraldine Page is born in Kirksville, Missouri. The actress is known for her extensive work on Broadway.
2003: Actress Carmen Electra marries Red Hot Chili Pepper bandmate Dave Navarro at St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The couple documented their marriage on an MTV reality show called ‘Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave.
Saturday, November 21st
1993: The New York Opera Houses’ musical Cinderella closes at New York State Theater, after only 14 performances.
2015: Actress Sofia Vergara marries fellow actor Joe Manganiello in Palm Beach. The two got engaged on Christmas Day, after six months of dating.
Friday, November 20th
1947: Future Queen of England, Elizabeth II marries Lt. Phillip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey, London. The pair met in 1934 and are second cousins once removed, through King Christian IX of Denmark and third cousins through Queen Victoria.
1975: American country singer Dierks Bentley is born in Phoenix, Arizona. Four of his singles have reached the top 5 from his 25 singles.
Thursday, November 19th
1954: American actress and dancer Vera-Ellen marries millionaire Victor Rothschild in a ceremony at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Los Angeles. The pair had one child who died in infancy from sudden death syndrome.
1962: American actress, Jodie Foster is born in Los Angeles, California. She has starred in films such as Taxi Driver, Freaky Friday, and The Silence of the Lambs.
Wednesday November 18th
1948: KFC founder, Colonel Harland David Sanders marries long-time employee Claudia Price. Price was working as the manager of Sander’s restaurant and motel, while doubling as his mistress.
1968: American actor Owen Wilson is born in Dallas, Texas. He is known for comedic family films such as Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Wedding Crashers, Little Fockers, and Marley and Me.
Tuesday, November 17th
2015: Ireland’s first same-sex wedding occurs in Clonmel, County Tipperary. A referendum on May 22nd, 2015 amended the Irish Constitution to recognize the marriage of same sex partners.
2008: Twilight premieres in Los Angeles with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as stars. The movie is based off of Stephanie Meyer’s book Twilight.
Monday, November 16th
1997: American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is born in New York City to filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs. Gyllenhaal has starred in films such as Donnie Darko with her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, but her role as Lee Holloway in the film Secretary launched her career.
2015: Largest diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1.111-carat stone found in the Karowe mine, Botswana
Sunday, November 15th
1887: Georgia O’Keeffe is born in Wisconsin. O’Keefe is known for her romanticized sculpture and paintings of flowers, skyscrapers, and landscapes.
2005: American Idol winner Carrie Underwood releases her debut album Some Hearts. The album wins 2006 Billboard Album of the Year and earns Underwood a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2007.
Saturday, November 14th
1532: King Henry VII of England marries Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony. The pair officially marry on the 25th of January the following year.
1948: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, is born in London to parents Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth II. He is the eldest son of The Queen and is the heir apparent to the British throne.
Friday, November 13th
1850: Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stevenson is known for works such as Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verse.
1934: Dancer and actress Ginger Rogers marries fellow actor Lew Ayres. This is Rogers’ second marriage at 23, which lasted only seven years, before Ayres and Rogers divorced
Thursday, November 12th
1929: Grace Kelly is born in Philadelphia. Initially known for her Hollywood film work during the early golden age of TV, Kelly gave up her career to become the Princess of Monaco at 26 after marrying Prince Rainier III in 1956.
1969: Mary Poppins’ Julie Andrews marries director Blake Edwards in Beverly Hills. The pair adopted two children and lived with Edwards’ children from a previous relationship, until his death in 2010.
Wednesday, November 11th
1962: American Actress Demi Moore is born in New Mexico. Aside from her roles in films such as G.I.Jane and Ghost, she is also well known for her marriage to Bruce Willis before her publicized marriage and divorce to Ashton Kutcher, 15-years her junior.
1974: American Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is born in Los Angeles, California. DiCaprio’s roles in iconic romance films such as Romeo+ Juliet, Titanic, and The Great Gatsby.
Tuesday, November 10th
1926: Crowned prince of Belgium, Leopold, weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden. Astrid spent only two years as the Queen of Belgium before dying in a car crash.
1942: Philip Barry’s Without Love opens in NYC. The play is about the practicalities of a love-less marriage during the trying times of World War II.
Monday, November 9th
1931: Actress Gloria Swanson divorces aristocrat and English nobility Henri de la Falaise. The pair were married for six years. Swanson later admitted that she had been pregnant during her marriage but chose to have an abortion, which she later said she regretted.
1931: Actress Gloria Swanson marries Michael Farmer. Unsure if her divorcee was finalized when they married the first time, they had to remarry later, when she was four months pregnant with their daughter, Michelle.
Sunday, November 8th
1970: Actor and director Dennis Hooper divorces singer Michelle Phillips. The pair were only married a total of eight days.
1979: Bernard Slade’s Romantic Comedy opens in NYC’s Ethel Barrymore Theater. The play revolves around a man’s impending marriage and his working-relationship with his female co-playwright.
Saturday, November 7th
1951: Frank Sinatra marries his second wife, actress Ava Gardner. The public relationship was filled with fights and altercations before a divorce in 1957.
1996: New Zealand singer Lorde (born Ella Yelich-O’Connor) is born in Auckland, New Zealand. She is known for singing hits such as “Tennis Court” and “Royals.”
Friday, November 6th
1988: American actress Emma Stone is born in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is known for hits such as La La Land, Zombieland, Easy A and Crazy Stupid Love.
1997: Proposals opens at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater for its first of 76 performances. Neil Simon’s play features a divorced dad and daughter who find unexpected romance at their Pocono’s country house.
Thursday, November 5th
1913: English actress, Vivien Leigh was born in India. She is known for her roles in such iconic movies such as Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire.
1940 American author Ernest Hemingway marries Martha Gelhorn, journalist. The day previous his divorcee with his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer had just gone through.
Wednesday, November 4th
1969: American Actor Matthew McConaughey is born in Uvalde, Texas. He is known for staring in romantic comedies such as: The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Failure to Launch, Fool’s Gold, and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
2006: Croatian princess Paola Doimi de Frankopan marries the son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Lord Nicholas Windsor. The pair married at St. Stephen of Abyssina in Vatican City.
Tuesday, November 3rd
1949: Anna Wintour is born in London, England. As the editor of US Vogue since 1988, Wintour has overseen more than 300 of Vogue’s covers and has shaped fashion for decades.
1992: Whitney Houston releases a cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.” The song wins Billboard Song of year for Houston’s range and skill.
Monday, November 2nd
1755: Marie Antoniette, Queen of France from 1774-1792, is born in Vienna, Austria. Known for the phrase “let them eat cake,” the queen’s precarious reputation was built on rumors of promiscuous spending before the French Revolution.
1960: Penguin Books is cleared of obscenity and publishes’ DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Prior to 1960, the book, first published in 1928, was banned in the United States and other countries for its depiction of the physical relationship between an upper-class women and a working-class man.
Sunday, November 1st
1954: Actor John Wayne divorcees actress Esperanza Baur after seven years of marriage due to violence. Baur was convinced Wayne was cheating on him with Gail Russel and one night when he came home late from a wrap party she attempted to shoot him in a drunken rage.
1954: Actor John Wayne marries actress Pilar Palette in Hawaii. The two had met shortly the year before and despite their 21-year difference the pair remained married for 10 years and had three children together.
Saturday, October 31st
1976: NBA star Larry Bird, at 19, divorces his high school sweetheart, Janet Condra. The pair were only married 11 months and have one child together.
2011: American socialite Kim Kardashian divorces NBA player Kris Humphries after 72 days of marriage. The pair couldn’t come to terms with each other’s lifestyles and Humphries even considered an annulment.
Friday, October 30th
1885: Ezra Pound, American poet, is born in Idaho. His epic work, Cantos, pushed the poetic envelope during the modernism period through the use of economy, symbolism, and images.
2011: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is premiered at the Rome Film Festival. The fourth of five total movie installments, based on Stephanie Meyer’s books Twilight, starred former couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
Thursday, October 29th
1971: American actress Winona Ryder is born in Minnesota. She has starred in films such as Edward Scissorhands, Little Women and Heathers and the TV show Stranger Things.
1982: Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson co-release “Girl is Mine.” Despite being the first released single from the Thriller album, the song was considered the worst song on the entire album.
Wednesday, October 28th
1811: Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is purchased for the first time by the Prince Regent, later known as King George IV. The first of her series of successful novels, Austen’s writing is marked with unprecedented female determinism and social commentaries on women’s standings in society.
1967: Actress Julia Roberts is born in Georgia. She has starred in movies such as Pretty Woman, Eat, Pray, Love, and Valentine’s Day.
Tuesday, October 27th
1932: American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath is born in Boston. Despite living only 30 years, Plath’s contributions to confessional works, specifically The Bell Jar and her collection of poems The Collected Poems, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize.
1964: Singers Sonny and Cher get married. Cher wears bell-bottoms to the ceremony.
Monday, October 26th
1916: Margaret Sanger is arrested for advocating birth control, considered an obscenity at the time. Her activism, opening the first birth control clinic in the United States, helped lead to the eventual creation of Planned Parenthood.
2002: American personality Jessica Simpson marries singer Nick Lachey in Austin, Texas. Simpson had waited until marriage in order to have sex and recorded "Sweetest Sin" to document losing her virginity to Lachey.
Saturday, October 24th
1929: Belgium princess Marie-Jose got engaged to Italian crown prince Umberto. At the same time there was an assassination attempt on Umberto, which failed so tremendously that he did not even know it was happening.
1986: Canadian actor and rapper Drake is born in Toronto, Ontario. He is known for his part as Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: Next Generation before departing to start an extremely successful rap career.
Friday, October 23rd
2010: Katy Perry, singer marries comedian Russel Brand with a traditional Hindu ceremony in Northern India. The pair divorced 14 months later as Perry wasn’t ready for children and Brand wanted to partake in more activism.
1991: Princess Mako of Japan is born. Due to her marriage to a commoner, she lost her status as a royal and become a commoner like her husband.
Thursday, October 22nd
1917: Joan Fontaine, British-American actress, is born in Toyko, Japan. She stared in over 45 feature films that spanned over five decades, including Hitchcock’s Rebecca, for which she gathered the first of her three Academy Award nominations for best Actress.
2011: “The Bachelorette” contestant Deanna Pappas marries Stephen Stagliano in Georgia. After Pappas rejected one proposal, accepted a second, before calling it off, Pappas finally got the ring after meeting Stagliano.
Wednesday, October 21st
1956: American actress Carrie Fisher is born in Beverly Hills, California to parents Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Known for her role as Princess Leia in the Starwars Saga for which she received four Saturn Award nominations.
1980: American socialite Kim Kardashian is born in Los Angeles, California to parents Robert and Kris Kardashian. Kim’s rise to fame, thank to social media, has made her one of reality tv’s biggest stars.
Tuesday, October 20th
1854: French poet, Arthur Rimbaud is born in Charleville. His literary influences are the woodwork of surrealism and build on the idea of symbolism.
1968: Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis, Greek millionaire, in Greece. Onassis divorced his previous wife in order to wed Kennedy, despite his daughter’s distaste towards her.
Monday, October 19th
1948: “My Romance” opens in NYC’s Shubert Theater. The first of 95 performances featured themes of love, laughter and enjoyment of life.
2012: Musician Justin Timberlake marries actress Jessica Biel at Italy’s Borgo Egnazia Resort. The couple have two sons together.
Sunday, October 18th
1960: Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is born in Brussels. He has had four different marriages with five different women.
2000: Actress Demi Moore gets a divorce from actor Bruce Willis after 13 years of marriage. The two have three daughters together.
Saturday, October 17th
1945: Actress Ava Gardner marries Artie Shaw, band leader and jazz musician, in Hollywood. The marriage was the second of Gardner’s total three.
1987: During her term, US First Lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified mastectomy. Considered radical at the time, the move prompted other women to consider breast removal as compared with lumpectomy when dealing with breast cancer.
Friday, October 16th
1854: Oscar Wilde, one of Ireland’s most famous authors, is born in Dublin. Wilde is known for being tried and convicted of homosexuality, for which he received the harshest penalty.
2013: Actress Kristen Bell marries actor Dax Shepard at the Beverly Hills Country Clerk’s Office in Beverly Hills, California. The couple waited to get married until California, their home state, legalized same-sex marriage.
Thursday, October 15th
2002: Actress Drew Barrymore and comedian Tom Green divorce after two years of marriage. The two starred in Charlie’s Angels together and worked together on Freddy Got Fingered and just recently reunited for the first time in 202 on Drew’s new talk show.
2017: Actress Alyssa Milano tweets “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too.”’ Thousands of people respond to the post and have been using the hashtag to come forward with their own sexual harassment stories.
Wednesday, October 14th
1939: Ralph Lauren, fashion designer, is born in The Bronx, New York. At only 30 years old, Bloomingdale’s sold Lauren’s Polo line exclusively in stores, the first time the store had let a designer have their own in-store space.
1957: Marlon Brando marries fellow actress Anna Kashfi. The pair’s son was only one of his 11 total children from his many partnerships, relationships and marriages.
Tuesday, October 13th
1950: “All About Eve” premiers with Better Davis and Anne Baxter as its stars. The movie juxtaposes the two women’s ages through their physical appeal.
2017: Actress Rose McGowan states that producer Harvey Weinstein raped her in 1997 at a hotel near the Sundance Film Festival. McGowan later settled the suit for $100,000, but not before accusing Hollywood’s elite men of knowing about the act and triggering the #MeToo movement that shook the world.
Monday, October 12th
1216: England’s King John loses his crown jewels. A flash flood overpowers his wagon and the jewels are lost near Fosdyke.
1968: Actor Hugh Jackman is born in Sydney, Australia. His work in films earned him a Golden Globe for his efforts in Les Misérables alongside an Academy Award nomination.
Sunday, October 11th
1884: Eleanor Roosevelt, longest serving First Lady (1933-1945) is born in New York, New York. She is renowned for her involvement in politics through social activism and humanitarian efforts.
1975: Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham in their living room in Arkansas. The pair are known for their national politics after climbing the governmental ropes together.
Saturday, October 10th
1975: Actress Elizabeth Taylor remarries actor Richard Burton in her sixth marriage. The two divorced for the second time a year later.
1987: Bruce Springsteen’s eighth studio album Tunnel of Love is released. In the album, the singer ponders past loves gone wrong with the end of his marriage to his first wife, actress Julianne Phillips.
Friday, October 9th
1940: John Lennon, one of the iconic singer/song writers of the band The Beatles, was born in Liverpool, England.
1975: Sean Ono Lennon was born to John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York City, on his father’s 35th birthday.
Thursday, October 8th
1979: Sugar Babies opens at Mark Hellinger Theater for the first of over 1200 performances. The play roles on skits, patriotism, and nostalgia.
1985: Bruno Mars is born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is known for hits like “Just the Way You Are” and “Nothin’ on You.”
Wednesday, October 7th
1959: Pillow Talk, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson is released. The movie features a womanizer who attempts to woo the woman who he shares a telephone line with, the main way he woos women.
1976: Rachel McAdams is born in Ontario, Canada. She has starred in Mean Girls, The Notebook, The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Vow.
Tuesday, October 6th
1991: Socialite Elizabeth Taylor marries for her eighth and final time. Paparazzi were so desperate to get pictures of her wedding to Larry Fortensky that one photographer parachuted to the wedding ranch.
1996: American country singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw marry in Rayville, Louisiana. The two have taken over the country music world with over 90 million songs sold combine.
Monday, October 5th
1975: British actress Kate Winslet is born in England.
2013: Soccer star Abby Wambach marries Sarah Huffman in Hawaii. She said it was not a statement as she was never in the closet and because those days are over. She earned global stardom with her leading role in epic romance Titanic, before reprising roles in films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Revolutionary Road, and The Reader.
Sunday, October 4th
1989: American Actress, Dakota Johnson, daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, is born in Austin, Texas. She starred in novel-turned movie cult-series Fifty Shades of Grey.
1990: Fox TV premieres Beverly Hills, 90210. The show ran for 10 seasons and gained a pop culture following based on its constant cast changes.
Saturday, October 4th
1985: Hollywood heartthrob and leading man Rock Hudson died at his Beverly Hills mansion on this day – 11 weeks after the actor had shocked movie fans across the world by revealing that he was dying of AIDS.
1993: Filmmaker Spike Lee weds attorney Tonya Lewis and they have two children.
Friday, October 2nd
1947: Music in My Heart opens for the first of 124 performances at Adelphi Theater. The play highlights the biographic romance of Peter Tchaikovsky while he is trying to write a play for the Russian Czar.
1972: The Palace Theater opens From Israel with Love for only 8 performances. The play centers around an Israeli
Thursday, October 1st
1910: Bonnie Parker, of Bonnie and Clyde, is born in Rowena, Texas. The couple was known for hundreds of robberies and their violent death by police ambush in Louisiana.
1935: British actress and singer Julie Andrews is born in Surrey, England. The actress starred as a live Cinderella, won an Academy Award for The Sound of Music, and won a Golden Globe for Mary Poppins.
Wednesday, September 30t
1791: Vienna’s premiere opera debuts Mozart’s two act opera “Magic Flute.” The opera features a Prince who must save his daughter, from her lover and his culture, before realizing she doesn’t need to be saved; he, in-turn, finds his own lover within the culture he feared.
1968: Diana Ross and The Supremes release “Love Child” from their album Love Child. The song sparked controversy over the idea of illegitimate children and was revolutionary for an all-female group.
Tuesday, September 29th
1969: Jackie DeShannon’s "Put A Little Love in Your Heart” gets it’s Gold Record status. The song came after her hit song “What the World Needs Now is Love.”
2012: Anne Hathaway marries Adam Shulman, a jeweler, in California. The couple sold their wedding photos and gave those proceeds to Freedom to Marry, a same-sex marriage advocacy group. The couple have two children.
Monday, September 28th
1960: Connie Francis’ "My Heart has a Mind of Its Own" hits number one. The song took three sessions to record and was Francis’ second consecutive Billboard Hot 100.
2010: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison files for divorce from Melanie Craft after a six-year marriage. Craft is a well-known romance novelist with titles such as: A Hard-Hearted Man, Trust Me, and Man Trouble.
Sunday, September 27th
1973: Barbra Streisand releases Billboard Song of the Year (1974) “The Way We Were.” The song was produced for the movie, under the same name The Way We Were, along with All in Love is Fair.
2014: Long-time eligible bachelor George Clooney marries activist-lawyer Amal Alamuddin in Venice. The couple have a set of twins together, Ella and Alexander.
Saturday, September 26th
1957: West Side Story, written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, premieres at NYC’S Winter Garden Theater. The story line highlights similarities within relationships despite cultural and street differences between the two NYC street gangs and is also an homage to Shakespeare’s Romero & Juliet.
1969: The Beatles released Abbey Road, their last studio album.
Friday, September 25th
1954: Actress Audrey Hepburn marries fellow actor Mel Ferrer in Switzerland. The pair met at a dinner party, which led them to star in War and Peace together.
1952: Christopher Reeve is born in New York City. He is known for playing Superman before becoming paralyzed in 1996.
Thursday, September 25th
1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul Minnesota. He is known for incredible novels such as The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and the Damned.
2005: Actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore get married. Demi is more than 14 years older than Aston and caused significant controversy, before their divorce in 2013.
Wednesday, September 23rd
949: Rock icon Bruce Springsteen is born in New Jersey.
2009: Modern Family premieres on ABC. The show stars Ed O’Neil and Sofia Vergara as a new kind of family, running for nine seasons.
Tuesday, September 22nd
1989: Baywatch premieres on NBC for the first time. The show introduces stars like David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson to the world.
1976: Charlie's Angels debuts. Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith work to fight crimes at the whim of their boss, the unseen, Charlie.
Monday, September 21st
1947: Horror icon Stephen King is born in Portland, Maine. He has published 61 novels, at least half of which have been made into movies or TV series.
1996: International supermodel Christie Brinkey gets married for the fourth time to architect Peter Cook. After over 20 years of marriage, the pair split in a nasty-public divorce.
Sunday, September 20th
1904: George Ade’s College Widow opens at NYC’s Garden Theatre. The play is loosely based on widow’s who would live near college towns to date college students.
1934: Italian actress Sophia Loren is born in Rome, Italy. She starred in movies such as: The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples.
Saturday, September 19th
1945: Child actress Shirley Temple, 17, marries fellow actor John Agar, 24, in Wilshire Methodist Church. Agar debuted as Temple’s lover in Fort Apache, before getting signed with her boss after their wedding.
2016: After dating for seven years, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s marriage fails after two years due to differences. The two have each gone through multiple high-profile divorces.
Friday, September 18th
1897: Gustave Kecker and Hugh Martin’s musical “Belle of New York City” premieres at the Casino Theatre before transferring to London’s West End. The story circulates around a Salvation Army girl who is willing to do anything to find true love.
1971: Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress, is born in Baltimore, Maryland. She is well known for staring in over 20 movies while being married to Will Smith and mother to their well-known children, Jaden and Willow.
Wednesday, September 16th
1924: Lauren Bacall is born in Staten Island. She is known for her sultry look and distinctive voice within her movie credits of Dark Passage, Key Largo, The Big Sleep, and How to Marry a Millionaire and her celebrity couple marraiges to Humphrey Bogart, followed by James Robard.
1966: The Metropolitan Opera House opens it’s doors in it’s new building at Lincoln Center. The Met opened with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Anthony and Cleopatra.
Tuesday, September 15th
1951: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes closes at the Ziegfeld Theatre in NYC after a total of 740 performances. The show ran for two years with stars Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russel.
1984: British heartthrob Henry Charles Albert David Windson, Prince Harry of Wales, is born in London to Princess Diana and Prince Charles. The Prince was known as a playboy and eligible bachelor, until his recent wedding to American actress Meghan Markle.
Monday, September 14th
1983: British singer Amy Winehouse is born in London. Her deep vocals and album Back to Black lead her to become, at the time, UK’s best-selling album of the 21st century.
1984: Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory star, marries Saturday Night Live comedian Gilda Radner, in France. The two met on the set of Hanky Panky and became fast friends. After the filming, their relationship grew becoming serious and the two tried to have children before Radner died of ovarian cancer, the apparent reason she could not have kids.
Sunday, September 13th
1989: Les Miserables opens at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit. It went on to play there another 10 different times, due to its critical success.
1997: Elton John rereleases “Candle in the Wind” as a tribute to the passing of Diana, Princess of Wales. He performed it live at the funeral service and the single’s global proceeds went to Diana’s charities.
Saturday September 12th
1846: Poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett marry in London. It was through Barrett’s prolific writing success that drew Browning towards her. She is known for poems such as “How Do I Love Thee?” and “Lady Geraldine's Courtship”
1953: Future POTUS, John F. Kennedy, marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island. The two wed only a year after meeting at a dinner party held by journalists.
Friday, September 11th
1962: The Beatles drop “Love Me Do” and “PS I Love You” featuring Andy White on the drums. The group premiered the songs three different times with three different drummers.
2005: Jane Austen’s book Pride and Prejudice is adapted into a movie starring Kiera Knightly as the lead, Elizabeth Bennet.
Thursday, September 10th
1991: Nirvana releases “Smells like Teen Spirit” to little reception. The song quickly grew in popularity and became a teenage anthem.
1999: At the Venice Film Festival, Brad Pitt stars in Fight Club. The movie depicts a complex relationship with love, life, and risk.
Wednesday, September 9th
1951: Love of Life premieres on CBS. It ran for almost 30 years and changed how soaps ran.
2012: Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively marries Green Lantern co-star Ryan Reynolds in South Carolina. It is speculated that he cheated on his first wife, Scarlett Johansson, with Lively as their divorce was not finalized when the two started filming Green Lantern.
Tuesday, September 8th
1504: Michelangelo’s Statue of David is unveiled in Florence, Italy.
1994: The MTV Video Music Awards opens with newlyweds Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. The two had a long-complicated relationship which lasted only four years.
Monday, September 7th
1943: Gilda actress Rita Hayworth marries director Orson Welles, during their run of The Mercury Wonder Show, in a civil ceremony. The two returned to work hours later, after only announcing the marriage to their co-workers the day before. The marriage floundered, as Hayworth believed Welles did not want to be tied down with a family. They had a daughter, Rebecca.
1987: Keith Sweat releases his first song “I Want Her.” The song was the number one single of 1988 on the Billboard Hot R&B chart.
Sunday, September 6th
1997: The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, is held at Westminster Abbey, London. Her two sons and ex-husband walked behind the coffin during the funeral procession.
2001: At the 18th MTV Video Music Awards “Lady Marmalade” produces a win for the cover done by Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya, and P!ink. The music video features all four in lingerie alongside a cameo by Missy Elliot.
Saturday, September 5th
1989: The Joan Rivers Show premieres as a daytime talk show, for which she won an Emmy. It was the second show she starred in.
1991: John Travolta marries Kelly Preston. The couple has three children and regularly attend marriage counseling. Preston passed away from breast cancer this year.
Friday, September 4th
1991: Most Happy Fella reopens at the NY State Theater in NYC. The play demonstrates the complexity of the mail-order bride system and male desperation for marriage.
1998: Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall marries Mark Levinson, an audio designer. The two co-authored the book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm in 2002, before a divorce in 2004.
Thursday, September 3rd
1977: I Dream a Jennie star Barbara Eden marries Charles Donald Fegert. The two divorced in 1982.
1977: The Mary Tyler Moore Show broadcasts its last episode on CBS. The show stars a single working woman and highlights female and romantic topics that are typically taboo in the time period.
Wednesday, September 2nd
1964: Canadian actor Keanu Reeves is born. He celebrates his 56th birthday as America’s favorite “internet boyfriend” amidst the launch of Bill & Ted Face the Music, the third film in a trilogy he starred in 32 years ago.
1995: Actor Charlie Sheen marries model Donna Peele in Malibu, California. Later that year he is named a client by Heidi Fleiss’ escort agency; the couple files for divorce in 1996.
Tuesday, September 31st
1954: Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Grace Kelly, premieres. The movie shines a new light on voyeurism and idealizes the “peeping Tom.”
2002: Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress Sarah Michelle Gellar marries I Know What you Did Last Summer costar Freddie Prinze in Mexico. The couple has two child and have costarred in multiple movies together such as: Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Happily N'Ever After, and Star Wars Rebels.
Monday, August 31st
1949: Richard Gere is born in Philadelphia. Known for his acting in Pretty Woman, Gere is also one of the first notable actors to portray a homosexual in the Broadway production of Bent, for which he won a Theatre World Award.
2014: Singer Donnie Walhberg marries Playmate of the Year and TV host, Jenny McCarthy. The two wed at the Hotel Baker, Illinois.
Sunday, August 30th
1972: Cameron Diaz is born in Long Beach California. Diaz stars in many romances such as My Best Friend’s Wedding, Charlie’s Angels, Sex Tape and The Other Women.
1994: R&B rapper R. Kelly, 27, supposedly marries Aaliyah, despite her age of 15. The two denied the relationship ever escalated past friendship.
Saturday, August 29th
1982: Ingrid Bergman dies on her 67th birthday. She starred in iconic films such as Casablanca and a series of Alfred Hitchcock movies.
2017: Janine Charrat, famed French ballerina, dies at 93 years old. She choreographed over 50 performances, throughout her 80-year career.
Friday, August 28th
1965: Shania Twain is born in Ontario, Canada. Twain is known for her rise to fame within the country and pop infused decade of the 90’s, and remains popular to this day.
2009: Amy Winehouse gets a divorce from Blake Fielder-Civil. He cites adultery as the reason for the conclusion of the two-year marriage.
Thursday, August 27th
1946: Barbara Bach is born, in Queens, New York. An American actress, known for playing the Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me, who married Ringo Star in 1981.
1953: Roman Holiday premiers, staring Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess seeing Rome on her own. Her performance won her an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Wednesday, August 26th
1967: Belle de Jour, a French romantic drama, wins a Golden Lion at The 28th Venice Film Festival. The story revolves around a young woman who works as a high-class prostitute, while her husband works and featured Catherine Deneuve in the title role.
1992: Anna Karenina, the musical, premieres in New York for 46 performances, based on the Leo Tolstoy classic. The production focuses on an unhappy married woman and her spoiled relationship with a Count.
Tuesday, August 25th
1981: Rachel Bilson, is born in Los Angeles. She made her prime time TV debut on The O.C. and then moved on to star in The Hart of Dixie.
1998: Lauryn Hill drops her debut single album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The album was recorded in and inspired by Jamaica, by featuring reggae sounds, alongside blends of r& b, hip-hop and doo-wop. Its themes focused on women’s lives and the complexity of relationships, winning five awards at the Grammys.
Monday, August 24th
1981: Romantic heart-throb, Chad Michael Murray, is born, in Buffalo New York. He is known for roles in One Tree Hill and A Cinderella Story. Prior to stardom he supported himself as a model for Gucci and Tommy Hilfiger.
1987: “Mcdreamy” actor Patrick Dempsey, aged 21, marries his manager and acting coach, Rocky Parker, aged 47. The couple divorced in 1994, after seven years of marriage.
Sunday, August 23rd
1963: The Beatles release “She Loves You” as a single in the United Kingdom. The song was The Beatles best-selling single of all time in the UK.
2014: American actress and philanthropist Angelina Jolie marries producer and actor, Brad Pitt, in France. After getting engaged in 2012, the couple finally tied the knot with all of their children taking part in the wedding. They divorced in September of 2016.
Saturday, August 22nd
1862: Claude Debussy, composer of romantic classics “Clair de lune” and “La Mer,” is born in France.
1954: Classic play Romeo and Juliet is reworked into a movie directed by Renato Castellani. The movie version of the play wins a Golden Lion at the 15th Venice Film Festival.
Friday, August 21st
1978: The first gay themed television-based film, Matlovich vs US Air Force, premiers. The movie is based on the true story of Leonard Matlovich, an U.S. Air Force sergeant, who was dismissed from the force for being gay.
1983: La Cage aux Folles, a musical based on a gay couple’s struggle to fit in with their son’s fiancée’s ultraconservative family, opens at Palace Theater in New York City. The story captivated audiences for over 1750 performances.
Thursday, August 20th
2011: Pop culture icon Kim Kardashian marries NBA basketball player Kris Humphries in a dreamy televised wedding in Montecito, California. After only 72 days of marriage, Kim filed for divorce and began dating longtime friend and rapper Kayne West, to whom she is now married with four children.
2012: Phyllis Diller, groundbreaking female comedian, dies of natural causes at 95, in her home in California. She was the first female comedian to address her plastic surgery, female struggles, and the status quo of gender and sexuality.
Wednesday, August 19th
1883: French fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel is born in Saumur, France. She was the founder of Chanel and is known for helping to liberate women’s style from the pre-World War I corseted silhouettes and ushered in sporty-chic looks for women.
1979: The Knack’s debut single, “My Sharonna” hits #1 and remains there for 42 days. The song took 15 minutes to write and was inspired by Fieger’s 17-year-old girlfriend, Sharonna, as he wanted to profess his love to her.
Tuesday, August 18th
1572: Henry IV of France marries his second cousin Margaret of Valois. He annulled the marriage, due to her inability to produce offspring. He remarried a year later and produced six kids with his new wife.
1958: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published. Despite the horrors of the book, the question of rape and consensual sex between a stepfather and his preteen stepdaughter, it is continually ranked as one of the most beloved books of all times.
Monday, August 17th
1891: NYC opens its first public bathhouse, with showers. It is called People’s Bath and changes the levels of intimacy between New Yorkers in the summer heat.
1893: Sex icon, actress, singer, and comedian Mae West is born in Brooklyn. She is known for her breezy, bawdy, sexual independence after penning, directing, and starring in her own Broadway musical entitled Sex.
Sunday, August 16th
1954: Director of untraditional romance films Titanic and Avatar, James Cameron, is born in Ontario. Cameron’s success of Titanic, which was the highest grossing film of all time coming in at $1.84 billion worldwide, was only surpassed in 2009 by his most recent blockbuster, Avatar.
1985: “The Queen of Pop” Madonna marries actor Sean Penn on her 27th birthday. The two had only known each other six months. In 1986, she dedicated her third album, True Blue, to him before his violent tendencies drove a wedge in-between them and divorce proceedings began.
Saturday, August 15th
1769: Napoleon Bonaparte, leader of the French military and Emperor is born in France. He later weds a 32-year-old widow at 26, who he renames Josephine because he did not like her birth name, Rose.
1990: American actress Jennifer Lawrence is born in Louisville, Kentucky. She has consistently been the highest paid actress in the world and opts to play the quirky and strong women, in complicated romances, due to her belief in female equality.
Friday, August 14th
1959: Earvin “Magic” Johnson is born in Michigan. He is known for being a three-time NBA MVP as well as being HIV positive, for which he has raised massive funds and awareness, within both the straight and LGBTQ+ communities.
1965: Actress and activist Jane Fonda marries producer and director Roger Vadim, in Las Vegas. After filing for divorce in 1973, Fonda married activist Tom Hayden. After divorcing Hayden 1991, she married Turner Broadcasting and CNN founder Ted Turner in 1993 and divorced him in 2003.
Thursday, August 13th
1860: Annie Oakley, American sharp shooter, is born in Ohio. Her talent was noticed when she won a shooting match against the traveling-show marksman Frank Butler, at the ripe age of 15. The two later married after she outshot him for $100.
1994: Actor Alan Thicke marries former Miss World Gina Marie Tolleson. The two were married for nine years and Gina Marie acted as a stepmother to future “Blurred Lines” singer Robin Thick and his brother, Brennan.
Wednesday, August 13th
1992: English model, Cara Delevingne, is born in London. She has appeared in many romance films such as Paper Towns, and Suicide Squad, while using her platform to preach LGBTQ+ rights.
2011: Rock star John Mellencamp’s third marriage fails. He files for an amicable divorce from his model wife, Elaine Irwin, after 18 years of marriage and two sons.
Tuesday, August 11th
1950: Jackson Pollock, renowned expressionist artist, is killed at the age of 44. He was drunk driving and totaled his car with his mistress, Ruth Kligman, at his side.
1983: Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor known for his roles in Thor and The Avengers, is born.
Monday, August 10th
1942: Betsy Johnson, fashion designer, is born in Wethersfield, Connecticut. She is known for her feminine and whimsical style of clothing.
1986: Me & My Girl opens on Broadway’s Marquis Theater, runs for 1420 performances and received 11 Tony nominations.. The show features a couple that has to overcome economic and social difficulties to be welcomed into society.
Sunday, August 9th
1963: Singer Whitney Houston is born in Newark, New Jersey. She is one of the best-selling artists of all time despite her career being cut short due to her death at 48.
1997: Tim McGraw releases “Just to See You Smile” about his wife Faith Hill. The song becomes the Billboard Song of the Year in 1998
Saturday, August 8th
1998: Shawn Mendes, teen heart throb and singer-songwriter, is born in Toronto, Canada. His songs tend to focus on the trials and tribulations of romance.
2001: Actor Tom Cruise and Actress Nicole Kidman divorce. The two had been married for 10 years, after meeting on the Days of Thunder set.
Friday, August 7th
1606: Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth is belived to have been performed in the Great Hall’s Hampton Court Palace. King James the first looked on while Macbeth’s wife used her cunning to craft the downfall of her family.
1954: Musical genius Johnny Cash marries his first wife, Vivian Liberto, at 22. Vivian filed for divorce in 1966 due to his alcoholic ways and his cheating tendencies. She raised their four kids on her own following the divorce.
Thursday, August 6th
1637: Ben Jonson dies at 65. He was a famous English playwright and poet who popularized plays of comedy, which feature romance. He was known to be only second best in England for plays and literature behind Shakespeare.
1911: Lucille Ball is born in Jamestown, New York. She stared, and self-produced a series of Lucy Shows such as I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and Life with Lucy. Her television studio produced 1960s hits such as Star Trek and Mission Impossible.
Wednesday, August 5th
1962: Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jean Mortenson, is found dead at 36. She was an American movie star, sex symbol, and blonde bombshell who was found dead due to an apparent self-inflicted drug overdose on her bed by her psychiatrist.
1964: Director Mel Brooks marries actresses Anne Bancroft. The two wed at Manhattan Marriage Bureau and stayed together until Bancroft’s death in 2005
Tuesday, August 4th
2001: Pierce Brosnan, James Bond actor, marries TV journalist and hostess Keely Shaye Smith. The two wed in the 785-year-old Ballintubber Abbey in Ireland.
2015: Muppet’s stars Miss Piggy and longtime boyfriend Kermit the Frog announced their split on Twitter. Miss Piggy claims to be dating co-star Topher Grace while Kermit is dating a sow named Grace.
Monday, August 3rd
1926: Tony Bennet, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, is born in Queens, New York. He is known for having released almost 70 albums which feature songs such as “I Left my Heart in San Francisco” and “Because of You.”
2015: Singer and designer Gwen Stefani divorcees Gavin Rossdale, fellow artist, after 13 years of marriage. The two were married in two different ceremonies and have three kids together.
Sunday, August 2nd
1865: Lewis Carroll publishes his Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. The series was originally a gift to a little girl named Alice.
1997: Kelsey Grammer, Frazier actor, marries Playboy model Camille Donatacci in Malibu. The two divorced in 2011 under the scrutiny of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hill’s audience, during which the episode about the divorce was the highest rated episode of the season.
Saturday, August 1st
1942: Actress Janet Leigh marries her childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle in Reno, Nevada. The pair were 14 and 18, respectively, and got divorced the same year. She later married Tony Curtis with whom she had a daughter, JamieLlee.
1976: Elizabeth Taylor finalizes her sixth divorce, out of her total eight. This was her second divorce from fellow actor Richard Burton. Their first divorce took place two years before.
Friday, July 31st
1976: Renowned singer Natalie Cole marries Marvin Yancy, songwriter. Cole is the daughter of Nat King Cole.
1988: The last Playboy Club closes, located in Lansing Michigan. In 2014, a Playboy-themed lounge was put into a hotel in Los Angeles and in 2018 an attempt was made to run a revived Playboy Club in NYC, but it went out of business in a year.
Thursday, July 30th
1997: Andy Gibb’s “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song stayed there from mid-July to September.
2007: Pop superstar Britney Spears files for divorce from Kevin Federline after only two years of marriage. The two had a reality tv show together called Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, which was comprised of home videos, and had two sons.
Wednesday, July 29th
1981: Prince Charles of Wales weds Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. The wedding results in a messy marriage, and divorce, with affairs on both sides.
2000: Jennifer Aniston marries fellow actor Brad Pitt in a private ceremony in Malibu, California. The wedding ends with Brad Pitt’s speculated cheating and subsequent marriage to Angelina Jolie.
Tuesday, July 28th
1950: Actress Bette Davis weds Gary Merrill in Mexico. He was eight years younger than her.
1992: Mary J. Blige drops her debut album What’s the 411. Puff Daddy helped produce the album which led Blige to become one of the most popular R&B singers of her generation.
Monday, July 27th
1890: The art community is on the edge of its seat whether revolutionary Dutch Artist Vincent van Gogh will survive a self-inflicted gunshot. Van Gogh dies, in Auvers-sur-Oise, two days later.
1997: The Marquis Theater wraps up “Victor/Victoria” after 738 performances. The play highlights the LGBTQ community while Julie Andrews received Tony nominees for her performance as the lead.
Sunday, July 26th
1755: Giacomo Casanova, a man whose name is synonymous with “womanizer,” is arrested for indecency and imprisoned at the Doge’s Palace.
1991: Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, is arrested. Herman was found exposing himself at an adult movie theater in Florida.
Saturday, July 25th
1933: Duke Ellington plays in the first live Dutch radio concert which ushers in a new era of radio’s importance.
1966: The Supremes release “You Can’t Hurry Love.” The song tops the Billboard Charts and is later rereleased by Phil Collins
Friday, July 24th
1917: the trial of Dutch seductress and exotic dancer Mata Hari starts in Paris. She was allegedly spying for Germany and caused the death of over 50,000 soldiers in WWI.
1969: Jennifer Lopez, JLo, is born in The Bronx. She is known for her Latin flair in singing, dancing, and acting.
Thursday, July 23rd
1973: Monica Lewinsky is born. She is known for her affair as an intern with President Bill Clinton
1986: Britain’s Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson in Westminster Abbey
Wednesday, July 22nd
1932: Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer, is born.
2010: The Princess Bride" actress Robin Wright (44) divorces actor-director Sean Penn (49) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage
Tuesday, July 21st
1921: Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives
1973: Bruce Lee collapses in Golden Harvest studios in Hong Kong and is rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital where doctors diagnose him with cerebral edema and he dies at the age of 32
Monday, July 20th
1968: Jane Asher breaks off her engagement with Paul McCartney of the Beatles, on BBC. The two had been together for five years before Asher found him in bed with an American
2015: The seemingly perfect couple of country singers Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert divorce after only four years of marriage
Sunday, July 19
1848: First US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
1932: "Rebecca" author Daphne DuMaurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning (35)
Saturday, July 18th
1817: Novelist Jane Austen died at 41. During her lifetime Austen published just four novels anonymously, focusing on everyday domestic life of the English middle class.
1925: Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”)
Friday, July 17th
1762: Catherine II becomes tsarina of Russia following the murder of Peter III
1954: Master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era Groucho Marx (63) weds actress Eden Hartford (24)
Thursday, July 16
2012: Actor-comedian Russel Brand (36) divorces popstar Katy Perry (27) due to irreconcilable differences a year after the fairy-tale wedding in India
2017: BBC announces first ever female Doctor Who will be played by Jodie Whittaker
Wednesday, July 15th
1858: Emmaline Pankhurst was born, the leader of Britain's suffragette movement, who founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903.
1996: Prince Charles and Princess Diana sign divorce papers
Tuesday, July 14th
1789: Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the fall of the Bastille Prison
1966: Sex symbol of the 1960s Brigitte Bardot (31) weds German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs (33) in Las Vegas
Monday, July 13th
1985: "Live Aid" concerts held at both Wembley Stadium (London) and John F. Kennedy Stadium (Philadelphia) raised over $70 million for African famine relief
2007: Environmental activist Laurie Lennard (49) divorces writer Larry David (60) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage
Sunday, July 12th
1804: Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel by Vice President Aaron Burr
1957: Mexican painter Frieda Kahlo dies of a pulmonary embolism at the age of 47
Saturday, July 11th
1967: "The Newlywed Game" premieres in the US on ABC TV
1969: David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" nine days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon
Friday, July 10th
2012: The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
2018: Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album Scorpion.
Thursday, July 9th
1868: The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves.
1952: American educator, Presbyterian minister and TV host Fred Rogers (24) weds Sara Joanne Byrd
Wednesday, July 8th
1835: Mathematician Ada Lovelace [Ada Byron] (19) weds Earl of Lovelace, William King (30)
1958: The first gold record album was presented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The award went to the soundtrack "Oklahoma!”
Tuesday, July 7th
1802: First comic book "The Wasp" is published in Hudson, New York criticizing Republican politicians
1940: Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was born in Liverpool, England.
Monday, July 6th
1970: California passes first "no fault" divorce law
1992: The body of Marsha P. Johnson, a key figure in the 1969 Stonewall riots and a prominent trans-rights advocate, was found floating in the Hudson River. Ruled a suicide, her death is now being re-examined as a possible homicide.
Sunday, July 5th
1946: Louis Reard's design for a bikini swimsuit debuts at the Paris fashion show.
1954: The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
Saturday, July 4th
1827: Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.
1925: American writer ("Gone with the Wind”)Margaret Mitchell (24) marries second husband John Marsh (29).
1939: Lou Gehrig is the first MLB player to have his number (4) retired on his "Appreciation Day" at Yankee Stadium, makes iconic "luckiest man” speech.
Friday, July 3rd
1971: Doors singer and songwriter Jim Morrison dies of an overdose in Paris at the age of 27.
1985: The time travel movie Back to the Future starring Michsel J. Fox was released.
Thursday, July 2nd
1953: Queen Elizabeth II of Britain is crowned queen. She had previously stood in for her father, King George VI, during the years leading up to his death. Sixteen months later she was crowned in Westminster Abbey. She is the longest reigning British monarch at 67 years and counting, having beaten Queen Victoria’s record of 63 years and seven months.
1956: Elvis records two of his hits “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Hound Dog.” “Hound Dog” and Elvis’ dance moves were supposed to rouse the sexuality of the youth according to the F.B.I.
Wednesday, July 1st
1961: Princess Diana, Princess of Wales, was born to noble British parents. She later became the first wife of Prince Charles of Wales and is known as The People’s Princess.
1972: England holds its first Gay pride march.
2011: Actors Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson divorce, after two years of marriage. It is speculated that Reynold’s relationship with Blake Lively, who he met in early 2010, is the reason behind the split.
Tuesday, June 30th
1975: Cher gets married to Gregg Allman. This occurs only four days after her divorce from Sonny Bono. They had a child, Elijah Blue, who is a musician like his father.
2012: Alec Baldwin marries Hilaria Thomas at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Hilaria is from Spain and worked as a yoga instructor in NYC before the couple had four children together.
Monday, June 29th
1854: English writer Charlotte Bronte weds Arthur Bell Nicholls. She had initially turned down the proposal before finally accepting it due to overwhelming feelings developing towards him.
2012: Katie Holmes, American actress, files to divorce actor/producer Tom Cruise over religious beliefs and differences over their daughter’s upbringing. Cruise is a prominent scientologist which caused riffs in their relationship.
Sunday, June 28th
2008: Golf star Greg Norman married former tennis legend Chris Evert in the Bahamas. Evert had an affair which lead to their divorce in 2009.
2010: Sandra Bullock files to divorce Jesse James after only five years of marriage. She has since adopted two children on her own, although the first adoption was supposed to be with James.
Saturday, June 27th
1693: First women's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published in London.
1992: Andrea Bocelli marries Enrica Cenzatti. The two met in a piano bar and have two children together.
Friday, June 26th
1915: T. S. Eliot marries Vivienne Haigh-Wood in London. He later claimed the marriage was only for his own ability to stay in London.
1975: After a successful music career together, Cher divorces Sonny Bono. The two had been fighting since 1972 but kept up their public appearance together until 1974.
Thursday, June 25th
1999: Jean-Claude Van Damme marries Gladys Portugues in Belgium. The pair had a son in the marriage before Van Damme started an affair.
2006: Nicole Kidman marries Keith Urban in Australia. The pair wed at the Cardinal Ceretti Memorial Chapel.
Wednesday, June 24th
1971: McCabe and Mrs. Miller staring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie was released. The movie features a song by Leonard Cohen was directed by Robert Altman.
2010: Megan Fox marries Beverly Hills 90210 actor Brian Austin Green in Hawaii. The two began dating when Fox was 18 and were engaged once before calling it off in 2009. They just separated a month ago.
Tuesdsay, June 23rd
1954: Fellow law student Ruth Bader Ginsburg marries Martin Ginsburg. The pair worked together in only one case, which was documented in the movie On The Basis of Sex.
1955: Lady & the Tramp is released to theaters by Walt Disney. The movie showcases the romance of an upper-class female cocker spaniel and a stray mutt male who fall in love despite their differences.
Monday, June 22nd
2011: Daniel Craig marries Rachel Weisz in a New York-based private ceremony. The two had been close friends for many years before dating in 2010.
2013: NeNe Leakes, known for her appearances on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, marries ex-husband Gregg Leakes. The pair had only divorced two years earlier before rekindling their relationship.
Sunday, June 21st
1930: Future Titanic actress Gloria Stuart, who played Rose in her old age, marries a sculptor, Blair Gordon Newell.
1998: Macaulay Culkin is 17 when he marries Broadway performer Rachel Miner. The bride was also 17 during their Connecticut wedding.
Saturday, June 20th
1837: Queen Victoria ascends the British throne at the age of 18. She held the throne for 63 years until 1901. She was the longest reigning British monarch until this year, when Queen Elizabeth exceeded her reign.
1987: Johnny Carson marries for the fourth time. His marriage to Alexis Mass lasted until his death in 2005.
Friday, June 19th
1895: This day is known as Juneteenth to commemorate when Major General Gordon Granger, along with 2,000 Union troops, rode into Galveston Bay, Texas to inform the enslaved Black people that they were free. However, they had already been freed by the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but no one had told them. In Texas, it is estimated that there were 250,000 people still enslaved after the end of the Civil War who were freed on this day.
1999: Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, marries Sophie Rhys-Jones at Windsor Castle’s St. George’s Chapel. All his brothers had been married at West Minster Abbey, but had ended in divorce, thus the use of St. George’s Chapel.
Thursday, June 19th
1928: American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales.
1942: Paul McCartney was born. He was one of the four Beatles that heralded the “British invasion” in rock’n’roll, and then went on to form the band Wings with his wife, Linda. He is the father of fashion designer Stella McCartney.
Wednesday, June 18th
1953: Martin Luther King marries fellow civil rights activist Coretta Scott. The pair had four children before King’s assassination in 1968.
1994: The Gay Games make their opening in New York City. The games started in 1982 in San Francisco before commemorating the Stonewall Riots’ 25th anniversary in NYC.
Tuesday, June 16th
1956: British Poet Ted Hughes weds Sylvia Plath in London. The pair were both successful poets before meeting and quickly getting married.
1991:Gershwin Theater’s closes Fiddler on the Roof after over 240 performances. It has since been revived many times.
Monday, June 15th
1777: Betsy Ross, American seamstress, marries Joseph Ashburn. This was her second marriage by the age of 25.
2002: Charlie Sheen marries Denise Richards in California. The wedding had a rose arch with over 1000 flowers. They divorced after four years and had two daughters.
Sunday, June 14th
1977: Twiggy Lawson, iconic English model marries actor Michael Witney. The two remained married until his death in 1983.
1999: Eminem marries Kimberly Anne Scott. This is the first of their weddings.
Saturday, June 13th
1625: Charles the first, the English King, married the French princess Henriette. The marriage was not thought highly of due to it being within a Roman Catholic setting.
2012: The Amazing Spider-Man with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone makes its premiere at the Tokyo Film Festival. The two went on to date until 2015 after meeting on set.
Friday, June 12th
1970: Fleetwood Mac’s drummer Mick Fleetwood marries Jenny Boyd. Weston, another band member, later had an affair with Jenny.
1999: David Arquette marries Friends actress Courtney Cox after the two met on the set of Scream. The two have a daughter together with Jennifer Aniston as a godmother, but diviorced in 2011.
Thursday, June 11th
1988: Cher’s “We All Sleep Alone” hits #14 on the charts. The song was performed on her tours and had a music video that went along with it.
2002: Paul McCartney marries Heather Mills in Ireland’s Castle Leslie. The pair had one child together before a divorce in 2006.
Wednesday, June 10th
1967: Margrethe II marries Prince Henrik of Denmark. The pair wed at the Naval Church of Copenhagen.
1993: The Broadway play She Loves Me makes it opening premiere at NYC’s Criterion Theater and became the first Broadway musical to be live-streamed. The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo following the 1940 James Stewart/Margaret Sullivan film The Shop Around the Corner and the 1949 Judy Garland/Van Johnson musical version In the Good Old Summertime. It resurfaced in 1998 as the Tom Hank/Meg Ryan feature You’ve Got Mail written by Nora Ephron. The show ran for 61 shows.
Tuesday, June 9th
1991: Bruce Springsteen marries one of his backup singers, Patty Scialfa. The two had initially met through a mutual friend.
1993: What’s Love Got to Do with It makes its way to theaters. The story is about Tina and Ike Turner’s turbulent lives.
Monday, June 8th
1984: Australia’s New South Wales proclaims it is legal for men to be homosexual. It has always been legal for women to be homosexuals in the state.
2013: Princess of Sweden, Madeleine, marries Christopher O’Neill in Stockholm’s Royal Palace Church. The pair have three children together.
Sunday, June 7th
1996: All My Children’s Julia and Noah get married. The pair represented a dynamic couple going through a lot to end up together.
2003: Edward Burns and Christy Turlington marry in San Francisco’s St. Peter and Paul’s Catholic Church.
Saturday, June 6th
1971: Yoko Ono and John Lennon make an unannounced appearance in NYC. The pair showed up to the Fillmore East and continued to pop up around the city all year.
2007: Spice Girl Mel B married Stephen Belafonte in Las Vegas. The pair divorced in 2017.
Friday, June 5th
1981:The United States AIDS epidemic begins as the CDC announces that five different homosexual men have come down with pneumonia. The pandemic started in L.A. before spreading elsewhere.
1993: Mariah Carey marries for the first time. She wed the powerful CEO of Sony Music, Tommy Mottola, before they split in 1997.
Thursday, June 4th
1942: Mrs Miniver is first released to theaters in the United States before winning Best Picture in 1943. The movie is based on Jan Struther’s novel about a middle-class family struggling through the war while the husband is away fighting.
1992: Steve Irwin marries scientist and naturalist Terri Ranies in Oregon. The two remained married until his death in 2006.
Wednesday, June 3rd
2001: Tina Fey marries her Saturday Night Live composer Jeff Richmond. The two wed in a Greek Orthodox ceremony in Philadelphia. The couple have two daughters.
2013: “Royals” is released by Lorde as her debut single. The song came off of her EP “The Love Club” and won her a Grammy for best song in 2014.
Tuesday, June 2nd
1979: The first U.S. bill that gives homosexuals rights is signed by L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley. The bill prohibited discrimination against homosexuals in businesses.
2012: Drew Barrymore marries writer Will Kopelman in California. The two have two children, but divorced in 2016.
Monday, June 1st
1533: Anne Boleyn is crowned the Queen of England. She received the crown as the second wife to King Henry the VIII before she was later beheaded.
1949: Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz for the second time. Both marriages ended in divorce.
Sunday, May 31st
1992: Crazy for You wins Best Musical at the 46th Tony Awards. The show follows a group of lovestruck boys in the 1930’s.
2014: Melissa Etheridge marries Linda Wallem in California. The pair were dating for a year and a half before tying the knot.
Saturday, May 30th
1966: Dolly Parton marries Carl Dean in Georgia. The pair have been married over 50 years and renewed their vows in 2016.
2000: Couple Faith Hill and Tim McGraw win big at the 35th Academy of Country Music Awards. The two even get nominated together for Vocal Event of the Year, “Let’s Make Love.”