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Date
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Event
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| April, 1 |
1961 American televangelist Jim Bakker (21) marries Christian singer Tammy Faye (19) |
| April, 2 |
1939 Author Jacqueline Susann (20) weds Irving Mansfield at Har Zion Temple in Philadelphia |
| April, 3 |
1953 American magazine "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue; cover features photo of Lucille Ball's new born baby boy, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (later professionally known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.) |
| April, 4 |
1882 Actress Sarah Bernhardt marries diplomat Aristide Damala in London |
| April, 5 |
1987 Fox TV network premieres showing "Married With Children" and "The Tracey Ullman Show" |
| April, 6 |
1920 Physicist Erwin Schrdinger (32) weds Annemarie Bertel |
| April, 7 |
1940 Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (21) weds Natalya Reshetovskaya |
| April, 8 |
1907 American industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (24) weds Bess Fosburgh in Boston, Massachusetts |
| April, 9 |
1953 Biologist Alexander Fleming (71) weds doctor Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas (41) |
| April, 10 |
1953 "House of Wax" 1st color 3-D movie, premieres in New York |
| April, 11 |
1911 Actress Mae West (17) weds fellow vaudevillian Frank Wallace (21) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| April, 12 |
1583 William of Orange marries Louise de Coligny |
| April, 13 |
2017 "New Girl" actress Hannah Simone (36) weds musician Jesse Giddings in a secret ceremony |
| April, 14 |
1935 PGA golfer Ben Hogan (22) weds Valerie Fox in Cleburne, Texas |
| April, 15 |
1925 Russian writer ("Lolita") Vladimir Nabokov (26) marries fellow Russian writer Vera Evseevna Slonim (23) in Berlin |
| April, 16 |
1994 British actor Dudley Moore (58) weds actress Nicole Rothschild; divorced in 1998 |
| April, 17 |
2011 "Game of Thrones", based on the fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin premieres on HBO |
| April, 18 |
1956 American film actress Grace Kelly (26) weds Prince Rainier III of Monaco (33) in a civil ceremony at the Prince's Palace in Monaco-Ville, Monaco |
| April, 19 |
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st feature length film, "Stand Up & Cheer" |
| April, 20 |
1991 Soviet Russian figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva (19) weds Soviet Russian figure skater Sergei Grinkov (24), in a state sanctioned ceremony |
| April, 21 |
1993 Rolling Stone's bassist Bill Wyman (56) weds American actress Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria |
| April, 22 |
1995 "Extra" TV co-host Arthel Neville (32) weds Carolina Panther running back Derrick Lassic (25) at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church |
| April, 23 |
1925 Film producer Samuel Goldwyn (42) weds actress Frances Howard (21) |
| April, 24 |
1854 Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi" |
| April, 25 |
1981 Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28) |
| April, 26 |
1946 Father Divine, controversial religious leader claimed to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement |
| April, 27 |
1981 Beatle Ringo Starr (40) marries American actress Barbara Bach (33) at Marylebone Town Hall, London, England |
| April, 28 |
1903 Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst (40) weds Millicent Veronica Willson (21) in New York City |
| April, 29 |
1932 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC radio, longest-running dramatic serial on US radio (ends 1959) |
| April, 30 |
1952 Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television |