Notable Weddings - 1940
1940 Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer, linguist and academic and outspoken critic of the South African National Party government's Bantu Education policy, marries Priscilla Phyllis Ntantla. |
Jan 26 |
Actor Ronald Raegan (28) weds Academy Award-winning actress Jane Wyman (23) at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Glendale, California |
Feb 18 |
Molecular biologist Francis Crick (23) weds Ruth Doreen Dodd |
Mar 30 |
Broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite weds Mary Elizabeth Maxwell at the Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church |
Apr 7 |
Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (21) weds Natalya Reshetovskaya |
May 5 |
Actress Mary Martin (26) weds producer Richard Halliday (35) |
May 25 |
MLB outfielder Stan Musial (19) weds his high school sweetheart Lillian Labash in Daytona Beach |
Jun 4 |
Radio broadcaster Paul Harvey (21) weds radio producer Lynne Cooper |
Jun 21 |
37th US President Richard Nixon (27) weds Pat Ryan (28) at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California |
Jul 31 |
Actress Loretta Young (27) weds advertising executive Tom Lewis at the chapel of St. Paul's Church in Westwood |
Aug 12 |
PGA golfer Sam Snead (28) weds high school sweetheart Audrey Karnes |
Aug 25 |
1st parachute wedding |
Aug 30 |
CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace (22) weds Norma Kaphan in Brookline, Massachusetts |
Aug 31 |
"Wuthering Heights" actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds "Gone With The Wind" actress Vivien Leigh (26) |
Aug 31 |
Football player and coach Vince Lombardi (27) weds Marie Planitz at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Bronx, New York |
Sep 1 |
Actor Harry Morgan (25) weds Eileen Detchon |
Sep 22 |
"Adventures of Superman" actor George Reeves (26) weds Ellanora Needles at the Church of Our Savior in San Gabriel, California |
Sep 25 |
"Sullivan's Travels" actress Veronica Lake (18) weds American motion picture art director and set designer John S. Detlie (31) |
Nov 1 |
Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer (36) weds biologist Katherine Harrison Puening |
Nov 5 |
American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn |
Nov 23 |
RAF pilot Guy Gibson (22) weds show dancer and actress Eve Moore in Penarth's Anglican Church |
Nov 30 |
"I Love Lucy" actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut |
Dec 3 |
Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus (27) weds pianist and mathematician Francine Faure (25) in Lyon, France |
Dec 31 |
Actress Bette Davis (32) weds New England innkeeper Arthur Farnsworth at 15,000-acre ranch in Lake Montezuma, Arizona |
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