Notable Weddings - 1956
1956 Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Actor Gene Hackman (25) weds Fay Maltese |
Jan 28 |
Science student later astronaut Neil Armstrong marries fellow student Janet Elizabeth Shearon in Wilmette, Illinois |
Feb 14 |
MLB center fielder Willie Mays (24) weds Margherite Wendell Chapman in NYC, New York |
Mar 3 |
Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke (26) weds first wife Hazel Masterson (26) at Perth Trinity Church in Australia |
Mar 19 |
Author Aldous Huxley (62) weds musician and author Laura Archera (45) |
Apr 14 |
Actress Vera Miles (25) weds actor Gordon Scott (29) |
Apr 18 |
Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony) |
Apr 19 |
US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III (in Church) |
Apr 23 |
Novelist C. S. Lewis (57) weds poet Joy Davidman (41) at the register office in Oxford, England |
May 12 |
NY Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner (25) weds Elizabeth Joan Zieg |
Jun 6 |
Three-time Olympic Champion figure skater Sonja Henie (44) weds Norwegian shipping magnate and art patron Niels Onstad (47) |
Jun 14 |
Actor Ted Cassidy (23) weds Margaret Helen |
Jun 16 |
British Poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes marries American writer and poet (The Bell Jar) Sylvia Plath at St George the Martyr Holborn, London. |
Jun 29 |
Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (30) weds for 3rd time playwright Arthur Miller (40) at White Plains Court House in White Plains, New York |
Jul 6 |
Journalist Ben Bradlee (34) weds Antoinette Pinchot |
Aug 5 |
Actress-singer Shirley Jones (22) weds film and stage actor Jack Cassidy (29) |
Aug 12 |
Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Rand |
Aug 19 |
Actor Christopher Plummer (26) weds actress Tammy Grimes (22) at Cherokee Castle in Sedalia, Colorado |
Aug 21 |
Boxing champ Archie Moore (42) weds model Joan Hardy in Ensenada, Mexico |
Aug 27 |
Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt (32) weds "12 Angry Men" director Sidney Lumet (32) |
Sep 14 |
British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (26) marries 1st wife actress Vivien Merchant (27) |
Sep 28 |
Russian president Boris Yeltsin (25) weds Naina Girina (24) |
Oct 6 |
South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan |
Oct 6 |
Tennis player champ Ken Rosewall (21) weds Wilma McIver at St John's Church of England Cathedral in Brisbane, Australia |
Oct 13 |
MLB player Roger Maris (22) weds high school sweetheart Pat Carvell at St. Anthony Padua Church |
Dec 9 |
NBA player Bill Russell (22) weds college sweetheart Rose Swisher |
Dec 28 |
Actress Elizabeth Montgomery (23) weds actor Gig Young (43) |
Dec 28 |
Singer Patti Page (29) weds choreographer Charles O'Curran in Las Vegas, Nevada |
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