Did You Know?
Leo Daft opens America’s 1st commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore
Fun Fact About August 10
Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts
Famous Weddings
- 1848 American telegraph Inventor Samuel Morse (57) weds second wife, American Sarah Elizabeth Griswold in Utica, New York
- 1912 British “To the Lighthouse” author Virginia Woolf [nee Stephen] (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31) at the St Pancras (London) Register Office, until her deathsuicide in 1941
- 1933 Austro-Hungarian actress Hedy Kreissler, later known as Hedy LaMarr (18) weds Austrian arms manufacturer Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik chairman Friedrich Mandl (33); divorce in 1937
Famous Divorces
- 2007 Actor Johnathon Schaech (37) divorces actress Christina Applegate (35) due to irreconcilable differences after 4 years of marriage
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