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2012 Event - The U.S. elections result in three states approving same-sex marriage: Maine, Maryland and Washington

2012 Event - After five years of marriage, American actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes announce their plans to divorce

2012 Event - The State Senate of Maryland approves a bill allowing same-sex marriage in the state

2012 Event - California's Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in that state was overturned by the U.S. States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

2012 Event - In the state of Washington, the State Senate passes legislation allowing same sex marriage

2011 Event - At its conference in Sydney, Australia's Labor Party turns to support gay marriage, laying the groundwork for legislation

2011 Event - New York becomes the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage when Governor Andrew Cuomo signs the New York State Marriage Equality Law

2010 Event - The parliament in Portugal approves a bill legalizing same-sex marriage

2005 Event - Canada becomes the 4th country to permit same-sex marriage

2005 Event - Spain becomes the 3rd country to permit same-sex marriage

2000 Death - Deborah Laake, writer, Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond, dies at 47

1996 Event - Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marriage

1993 Event - Jane Seymour and James Kesch, Marriage

1989 Event - Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals

1989 Event - Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage

1988 Event - Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson

1986 Event - NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-New York Jets football game

1985 Event - South Africa will repeal sex and marriage laws against whites and non-whites

1979 Event - Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)

1976 Event - Liz Taylor's 7th marriage to John Warner

1975 Event - Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)

1969 Event - Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo

1965 Event - Netherlands 2nd Chamber accept marriage princess Beatrice and Claus von Amsberg

1964 Event - Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)

1961 Death - Joan McCracken, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38

1959 Event - Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)

1952 Birthday - Jennie Lynn, born in San Diego, California, actress, Love and Marriage

1952 Event - Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage to Michael Wilding

1950 Event - Liz Taylor's 1st marriage to Conrad Hilton, Jr.

1950 Event - New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China

1950 Birthday - Maria Ewing, born in Detroit, Michigan, opera singer, soprano, mezzo-soprano, debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 'The Marriage of Figaro', 1976

1946 Birthday - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, Marriage of Maria Braum

1943 Birthday - Joanna Shimkus, Halifax NS, actress, Marriage of a Young Stockbroker

1938 Event - 1st U.S. law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses

1938 Event - New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license

1936 Birthday - Klaus Lowitsch, born in Berlin, actor, Despair, Marriage of Marla Braun

1934 Birthday - Bibi Andersson, Sweden, actress, Scenes From a Marriage

1928 Birthday - Jeanne Bal, born in Santa Monica, California, actress, Pat-Love and Marriage

1927 Birthday - William Redfield, New York City, actor, Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage

1926 Event - Turkey allows civil marriage

1922 Birthday - Joan McCracken, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actress, Claudie Story of a Marriage

1913 Birthday - Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter, Love and Marriage

1900 Birthday - Lester Vail, actor, Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage

1893 Birthday - Bernard Rogers, New York City, composer, Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion

1880 Event - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage

1838 Event - Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwin's marriage proposal

1836 Event - British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death

1810 Event - French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I and Josephine

1786 Event - Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)

1764 Event - John Adams marries Abigail Smith, marriage lasts 54 years

1755 Birthday - Sarah Kemble Siddons, Brecon England, tragic actress, Fatal Marriage

1743 Death - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian/France composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77

1731 Death - Mary Astell, English writer and feminist, wrote 'Some Reflections upon Marriage', dies soon after having breast cancer

1666 Birthday - Mary Astell, born in Newcastle, England, English writer and feminist, wrote 'Some Reflections upon Marriage'

1661 Event - Marriage contract for Charles II of England and Catharina of Portugal

1650 Event - Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)

1540 Event - England's King Henry VIII 6-mo marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled

1533 Event - England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage

1533 Event - King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null and void

1476 Event - Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg and duke Charles the Stout arrange marriage of their children

1428 Event - Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid

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