Today in History - Weddings - 1953

1953Explorer Edmund Hillary (34) weds Louise Mary Rose

1953Broadcasting pioneer Roone Arledge (22) weds Joan Heise at St. Frances de Chantal Parish in Wantagh, New York

1953MLB baseball player Ernie Banks (22) weds Mollye Louise

1953Sci-Fi author Arthur C. Clarke (35) weds Marilyn Torgenson in New York

1953MLB baseball player Hank Aaron (19) weds Barbara Lucas

1953MLB player and manager Sparky Anderson (19) weds childhood sweetheart Carol Valle

1953Tennis champion Tony Trabert (23) weds beauty queen Shauna Wood at the Salt Lake Country Club in Salt Lake City, Utah

1953Ice hockey player Gordie Howe (25) weds sports agent Colleen Joffa (20) at Calvary Presbyterian Church

1953British writer ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") Ronald Dhal marries American actress Patricia Neal

1953US Senator Joseph McCarthy (43) weds researcher Jean Kerr at St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

1953Actress Agnes Moorehead (52) weds actor/film director Robert Gist (35)

1953Biologist Alexander Fleming (34) weds doctor Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas (41)

1953John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy (31) weds activist and attorney Sargent Shriver at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City

1953Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. (24) marries fellow activist and singer Coretta Scott (26)

1953Author Roald Dahl (36) weds stage actress Patricia Neal (27) at Trinity Church in New York

1953Singer James Brown (20) weds Velma Warren at Trinity CME Church in Toccoa, Georgia

1953NHL goaltender Terry Sawchuk (23) weds Patricia Ann Morey

1953Statesman Mikhail Gorbachev (22) weds Raisa Maximovna (21) at a Komsomol wedding ceremony

1953Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker (58) weds second wife Olive Palmer (51) at Park Road Baptist Church in Toronto, Canada

1953Actress Lana Turner (32) weds "Tarzan of the Apes" actor Lex Barker (34)