Famous Weddings
John Hancock
1775 Statesman John Hancock (38) weds hostess Dorothy Quincy (28) in Fairfield, Connecticut
- 1811 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (19) elopes to Scotland with 1st wife Harriet Westbrook (16)
Enid Blyton
1924 British children's writer Enid Blyton (27) marries editor Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (36)
- 1968 1 day marriage of TV character Murphy Brown
Salman Rushdie
1997 British-Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (50) weds Elizabeth West
Cathy Moriarty
1999 Actress Cathy Moriarty (38) weds financier Joseph Gentile
Mariska Hargitay
2004 "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actress Mariska Hargitay (40) weds actor-writer Peter Hermann (37) at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, California
Famous Divorces
Ella Fitzgerald
1953 American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald (36) divorces American jazz bassist Ray Brown (27) after 6 years of marriage
Amy Winehouse
2009 Blake Fielder-Civil (27) divorces British Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse (25) due to adultery after 2 years of marriage
Year of the Rabbit
Year of the Dragon
Year of the Snake
Year of the Horse
Year of the Goat/Sheep
Year of the Monkey