Wednesday,  November 27

2006: Actress Pamela Anderson divorces Kid Rock after only four months of marriage. The pair had dated in 2003, before she broke up with him.

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2013: Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore divorce after being married eight years. Kutcher is now married to Mila Kunis and the couple has two children.

Tuesday, November 26

1865: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published in the United States. The book by Lewis Carroll became a hit for children and adults alike due to its use of literary nonsense.

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1962: Singer Tina Turner marries Ike Turner in Tijuana, Mexico. The pair divorced in 1978 after a tumultuous marriage and an erratically successful career together.

Sunday, November 24

1976 – Donna Summer gets divorced from Helmuth Sommer. Their daughter spent most of her childhood with Donna’s parents, due to her rising success.

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 2001: Angel star David Boreanaz marries Playmate of the Month Jamie Bergman, at Ingleside Inn at Palm Springs, California. The pair have two children together and have remained together through cheating scandals.

Saturday, November 23

1991: Queen lead-singer, Freddie Mercury confirms he has AIDS. He dies the following day from AIDS-related complications.

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 2018 – Singer Justin Bieber announces that he and Hailey Baldwin have gotten married. The two recently had another wedding in North Carolina with friends and family. 

Friday, November 22

1924: Geraldine Page is born in Kirksville, Missouri. The actress is known for her extensive work on Broadway, dying during a performance of Blithe Spirit.

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2003: Actress Carmen Electra marries Red Hot Chili Pepper bandmate Dave Navarro at St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The couple documented their marriage on an MTV reality show called ‘Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave.

Thursday, November 21

1987 – Demi Moore and fellow actor Bruce Willis marry in Vegas’ Little White Chapel. The pair met at a premiere.

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 2015: Actress Sofia Vergara marries actor Joe Manganiello in Palm Beach. The two got engaged on Christmas day, after six months of dating.

Wednesday, November 20

1900—Tiffany fortune holder Alfreda Mitchell marries an Archeologist named Hiram Bingham in Hawaii. The pair had a whopping seven sons together.

1947: Future Queen of England, Elizabeth II, marries Lt. Phillip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey, London. The pair meet in 1934 and are second cousins once removed, through King Christian IX of Denmark and third cousins through Queen Victoria.

Tuesday, November 19

1980 – Brooke Shields’ Calvin Klein suggestive “nothing comes between me and my Calvin’s" ad is removed from running on CBS. Later in the year, ABC also banned the ad from running, claiming it was too provocative.

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2005 – Christina Aguilera marries music exec Jordan Bratman in a tent. Her hit single, “Ain’t No Other Man,” is about Bratman, although the two later divorced.

Monday, November 18

1948: KFC founder, Colonel Harland David Sanders marries long-time employee Claudia Price. Price was working as the manager of Sander’s restaurant and motel, while doubling as his mistress.

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2006 – Tom Cruise, 44, marries Katie Holmes, 27. The pair have one daughter together, Suri, who is frequently in the tabloids over their custody issues. 

Sunday, November 17

1558 – Elizabeth the First becomes Queen of England, at the age of 25 after her half-sister, Queen “Bloody” Mary dies and Elizabeth takes her crown.

2015: Ireland’s first same-sex wedding occurs in Clonmel, County Tipperary. A referendum on May 22nd, 2015 amended the Irish Constitution to recognize the marriage of same sex partners. 

Saturday, November 16

1987 – Lisa Bonet weds Lenny Kravitz. The two have one daughter together, Zoey Kravitz.

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2017 – Serena Williams and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian marry in New Orleans. The pair have one daughter together.

Friday, November 15

1887: Georgia O’Keefe is born in Wisconsin. O’Keefe is known for her romanticized sculpture and paintings of flowers, skyscrapers and landscapes, as well as her peer marriage to renowned photographer Edward Steichen. 

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 2005: American Idol winner Carrie Underwood releases her debut album Some Hearts. The album wins 2006 Billboard Album of the Year and earns Underwood a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2007.

Thursday, November 14

1532: King Henry VII of England marries Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony. The pair officially marry on the 25th of January the following year.

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1948: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, is born in London to parents Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth II. He is the eldest son of The Queen and is the heir apparent to the British throne.

Wednesday, November 13

1934: Dancer and actress Ginger Rogers marries fellow actor Lew Ayres. Rogers had been married before her second marriage at 23, which lasted only seven years before Ayres and Rogers divorced.

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1952—The first set of fake nails are purchased. They are made out of dental enamel at the time.

Tuesday, November 12

1969: Mary Poppins star Julie Andrews marries director Blake Edwards in Beverly Hills. The pair adopted two children and lived with Edwards’ children from a previous relationship until his death in 2010.

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 2015 : Barack Obama poses for Out Magazine. He becomes the first sitting president of the United States to be on the cover of a gay magazine.

Monday, November 11

1860 – Argentina holds its first wedding between Jewish patrons. The Jewish population in the country was quite small at the time.

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2011—Thirty-three year-old Kim Zolciak marries Falcon’s football player Kroy Bierman in a TV wedding. The two had a Bravo TV show, Don’t Be Tardy, a spin-off of Real Housewives Atlanta, which Kim was on for multiple seasons.

Sunday, November 10

1926: Crowned prince of Belgium, Leopold, weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden. Astrid spent only two years as the Queen of Belgium before dying in a car crash.

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1942: Philip Barry’s “Without Love” opens in NYC. The play is about the practicalities of a love-less marriage during the trying times of World War II.

Saturday, November 9

1931: Actress Gloria Swanson divorces aristocrat and English nobility Henri de la Falaise. The pair were married for six years and had a child, which Swanson aborted and later regretted.

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1931: Actress Gloria Swanson marries Michael Farmer. They were unsure if her divorce was finalized when they married the first time and had to remarry later, when she was four months pregnant with their daughter, Michelle

Friday, November 8

1938 – Philadelphia becomes home to the first African American women legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset. She served in the PA House of Representatives, despite covering a largely white area at the time, she was considered quite successful during her tenor and became a prominent member of Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet."

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1975 – NBA allstar Larry Bird marries his high school sweetheart, Janet Condra. The pair have a daughter together.

Thursday, November 7

1951: Frank Sinatra marries his second wife, actress Ava Gardner. The public relationship was filled with fights and altercations before a divorce in 1957.

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 1957 – Ingrid Bergman files a divorce from Roberto Rossellini. The pair become parents to actress Isabella Rossellini.

Wednesday, November 6

2018—Sharice Davids and Debra Haaland become the first Native American women to be elected to the House of Representatives.

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2018 – At the age of 29, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes the youngest person to ever be elected to the house of Representatives. She managed to beat a 10 term incumbent along the way to her victory.

Tuesday, November 5

1872—American rights activist Susan B. Anthony votes in her first election. She votes for Ulysses S. Grant.

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1977—Son of George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, marries future first lady Laura Welsh in Texas. The pair have twin daughters together. 

Monday, November 4

1842 – Mary Todd Lincoln marries future president Abraham Lincoln in Illinois. The pair were together until his assassination in 1865.

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1978 – Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson marry, both were 20. The pair later went on to write, star and direct the hit show, The Nanny. 

Sunday, November 3

1913 – A brassiere with an elastic band is first patented by Mary Phelps Jacob. Prior to adding an elastic band, Jacobs had created a bra with handkerchiefs and ribbons.

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1992: Whitney Houston releases a cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.” The song wins Billboard Song of year for Houston’s range and skill. 

Saturday November 2nd

1867 – Harper’s Bazaar hits the shelves for the first time. At the time, the magazine was published weekly and bore a slightly different name, but still catered to women’s fashion.

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1960: Penguin Books is cleared of obscenity and publishes’ DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in England. Prior to 1960, the book, first published in 1928, was banned in the United States and other countries for its depiction of the physical relationship between an upper-class women and a working-class man. The book was published by Grove Press in the U.S. where it instigated a second obscenity trail and changed American obscenity laws.

Friday, November 1st

1604 – The first day Shakespeare’s “Othello” is seen by people. It is based on a story written in 1565.

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1982 – Isabella Rossellini and Martin Scorsese get divorced. The pair were only married for three years.

Thursday, October 31

1976 - NBA star Larry Bird, at 19, divorces his high school sweetheart, Janet Condra. The pair were only married 11 months and have one child together.

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2011 - American socialite Kim Kardashian divorces NBA player Kris Humphries after 72 days of marriage. The pair couldn’t come to terms with each other’s lifestyles and Humphries even attempted to file for an annulment. 

Wednesday, October 30

1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet, is born in Idaho. His epic work, Cantos, pushed the poetic envelope during the modernism period through the use of economy, symbolism and imagery.

2011 - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 premiered at the Rome Film Festival. The fourth of five total movie installments, based on Stephanie Meyer’s best-selling books, the Twilight film series starred former couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

Tuesday, October 29

1971- American actress Winona Ryder is born in Minnesota. She has starred in films such as Edward Scissorhands, Little Women, and Heathers, as well as the TV show Stranger Things.

1982- Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson co-release “Girl is Mine.” Despite being the first released single from  the Thriller album, the song was considered the worst song on the entire album.

Monday, October 28

1811 - Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is purchased for the first time by the Prince Regent, later known as King George IV. The first of her series of successful novels, Austen’s writing is marked with unprecedented female determinism and social commentaries on women’s standings in society.

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1967 - Julia Roberts, actress, is born in Georgia. She has starred in movies such as Pretty Woman, Eat, Pray, Love, and Valentine’s Day.

Sunday, October 27

1932 – American writer Sylvia Plath is born in Boston. She is known for her writing ability, despite only writing for a short period of time before her early death.

1964 – Singers Sonny and Cher get married. Cher wears bell-bottoms to the ceremony, in line with her spunky style. 

Saturday, October 26

1916- Margaret Sanger is arrested for advocating birth control, considered an obscenity at the time. Her activism, opening the first birth control clinic in the United States, helped lead to the eventual creation of Planned Parenthood 

2002- American personality Jessica Simpson marries singer Nick Lachey in Austin, Texas. Simpson had waited until marriage in order to have sex and recorded "Sweetest Sin" to document losing her virginity to Lachey.

Friday, October 25

1968- Yoko Ono tells the world she is having a child with John Lennon, which ended in a miscarriage. Lennon had just divorced his wife Cynthia after she caught him cheating on her with Ono.

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1980 - Barbra Streisand’s album Guilty goes three weeks straight at the #1 spot. Her single off of the album “Woman in Love” also goes three weeks straight at the #1 spot.

Thursday,  October 24

1957-Crooner Bing Crosby marries Kathryn Grant, after his first wife, Dixie Lee, died of ovarian cancer. It is his second marriage and her first.

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1986 – Canadian actor and rapper Drake is born. He starred in the hit TV show, “Degrassi,” before becoming a world-class rapper.

Wednesday, October 23

2010 – Katy Perry and Russel Brand wed in India. The two divorced shortly after in a very public way.

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 2015 – Adele's single, “Hello,” is the first song to reach over a million online downloads in its first week. The album, 25, also becomes a world hit.

Tuesday, October 22

1978 – Grete Waitz wins the eighth annual NYC Women’s Marathon in her first competition. Her time of 2 hours and 32 minutes and 30 seconds was a world record at the time.

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2007 – Actress Kate Hudson and Black Crowes rocker Chris Robinson divorce. The pair were married for six years and had a son  before the split. 

Monday, October 21

1964 – My Fair Lady comes out on film. The movie stars Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.

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1980 – Kim Kardashian West is born to Kris and Robert Kardashian. She and her sisters star d her mom later star in their own reality TV show for 11 seasons.

Sunday, October 20

1968 – Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy weds millionaire Aristotle Onassis in Greece. The two were only married seven years until 1975 when Onassis died.

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 2013 – Kelly Clarkson marries Brandon Blackstock at his family farm in Tennessee. He is Reba McEntire’s stepson, and Clarkson's talent manager. 

Saturday, October 19

1975 – “A Chorus Line” premieres on Broadway. At the time, the show held the record for the longest-running Broadway show with 6,137 performances at the Shubert Theatre in NYC.

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1991 – Director Michael Moore marries Kathleen Glynn. The two had a nasty divorce in 2014. 

Friday, October 18

1869 – The King of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel II, marries his mistress, Rosa Vercellana. He was previously married to his first cousin once removed, before her death in 1855.

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1960 - Jean Claude Van Damme is born in Belgium. The actor is known for his good looks and marital art works.

Thursday, October 17

1469 – Fernando, the Crown Prince of Aragon, weds the Princess of Castile, Isabella. They helped to found the Spanish Empire.

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1963 – The Beatles sit in EMI Studios, situated in London, to record their hit, “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song together before recording it.

Wednesday, October 16

1854: Oscar Wilde, one of Ireland’s most famous authors, is born in Dublin. Wilde is known for being tried and convicted of homosexuality, for which he received the most harsh penalty.

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2013: Actress Kristen Bell marries actor Dax Shepard at the Beverly Hills Country Clerk’s Office in Beverly Hills, California. The couple waited to get married until California, their home state, legalized same-sex marriage.

Tuesday, October 15

1977 – The single “You Light Up My Life” by Debbie Boone hits #1 on the charts. The song stays there for 10 weeks, one of the longest number one hits of the decade.

2017— Prompting the #metoo movement, Alyssa Milano tweets, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too.’” The movement becomes viral revealing hundreds of thousands who have been sexually abused.

Monday, October 14th

1957 – Hollywood star actor Marlon Brando weds fellow actress Anna Kashfi. The pair had a son before divorcing in 1959.

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2007 – “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” makes it premiere on E! TV. The show follows the lives of the Kardashian family and quickly becomes a hit reality show, which is still on TV to this day and is currently in its 17th season.

Sunday, October 13th

1950 - “All About Eve” premiers with Better Davis and Anne Baxter as its stars. The movie juxtaposes the two women’s ages through their physical appeal.

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2017 - Rose McGowan, actress, states that Harvey Weinstein raped her in 1997 at a hotel near the Sundance Film Festival. McGowan later settled the suit for $100,000, but not before accusing Hollywood’s elite men of knowing about the act.

Saturday,  October 12th

1810—The first Oktoberfest is celebrated in Bavaria. The event takes place as the royalty invited its people to Munich in order to celebrate the wedding of the Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

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2018 – Princess Eugenie of England weds Jack Brooksbank in England’s Windsor Castle. The Princess’ older sister, Beatrice, recently got engaged last month.

Friday, October 11th

1975 – “Saturday Night Live,” makes it first appearance on Primetime TV. George Carlin serves as the show’s very first host.

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1992—Rapper and actress Cardi B is born in the Bronx. The singer gained popularity due to her social media presence and her wild antics. 

Thursday, October 10th

1975 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor remarries actor Richard Burton in her sixth marriage. The two divorced for the second time a year later.

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2004 – Superman actor Christopher Reeves dies after a long battle after being paralyzed. Reeves was known for his role as Clark Kent in the “Superman” franchise of the 80’s.

Wednesday, October 9th

1973 – The Presleys divorce after six years of marriage. Elvis and Priscilla had one daughter together.

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1986 – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera opens in London. He is known for his incredible musicals as he has had more than a dozen hits in the West End and Broadway including Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats and Evita.

Tuesday, October 8th

1824 – The founder of Salt Lake City, Utah, Brigham Young, marries the first of his wives in New York. He married 54 other women throughout his lifetime.

1985 -  Bruno Mars is born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is known for hits like “Just the Way You Are” and “Nothin" on You.”

Monday, October 7th

1959: Pillow Talk, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson, is released. The movie features a womanizer who attempts to woo the woman who he shares a telephone line with, the main way he woos women.

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1982 – Cats makes its debut on Broadway. The show runs for 18 years before closing in 2000. It has since been revived and will open as a major movie on December 20, 2019.

Sunday, October 6th

1927: The first sound movie premiers. The Jazz Singer allows audiences to hear Al Jolson speaking and singing marking the end of the formerly popular silent movie.

1996: American country singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw marry in Rayville, Louisiana. The two have taken over the country music world with over 90 million songs sold combined.

Saturday, October 5th

1996—Two cats have a $28,000 wedding given by their owner. The wedding is attended by over 500 human guests and the newlywed cats receive over $60,000 worth of gifts from attendees in the Thailand nuptials.

2013: Soccer star Abby Wambach marries Sarah Huffman in Hawaii. Abby said her marriage was not a statement as she was never in the closet and "because those days are over.”

Friday, October 4th

1539 – The King of England, Henry VIII weds his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. He marries twice more before his death in 1547.

1989: American Actress, Dakota Johnson, daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, is born in Austin, Texas. She starred in novel-turned movie cult- series Fifty Shades of Grey.

Thursday, October 3rd

1988 – Lisa Marie Presley marries musician Danny Keough. The pair wed in the Church of Scientology. They had two children together before divorcing in 1994. Lisa Marrie has been married four times.

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1992—Future POTUS Barack Obama and FLOTUS Michelle Robinson marry in Chicago. The pair have two daughters together and remain happily married.

Wednesday, October 2nd

1902 – The children's book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit is released London. Beatrix Potter, author and illustrator of the tale, was well known for her children's books, conservation, and art work.

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2004 – Billy Joel marries “Top Chef” host Katie Lee in New York. The pair remained married until 2010 despite busy careers and a significant age gap. 

Tuesday, October 1st

1791—The wedding of Prince Willem Frederick and Princess Frederica Louise Wilhelmine of Prussia occurs. The pair are cousins and the Prince soon becomes the King of the Netherlands.

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1982 – Marvin Gaye’s last studio album, Midnight Love, is released to listeners. The album features the popular single, “Sexual Healing.” 

Monday, September 30th

1791: Vienna’s premiere opera debuts Mozart’s two act opera Magic Flute. The opera features a prince who must save his daughter, from her lover and his culture, before realizing she doesn’t need to be saved; he, in-turn, finds his own lover within the cultured he feared.

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 1968: Diana Ross and The Supremes release “Love Child” from their album Love Child. The song sparked controversy over the idea of illegitimate children and was revolutionary for an all-female group.

Sunday, September 29th

1969: Jackie DeShannon’s “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” gets its Gold Record status. The song came after her hit song “What the World Needs Now is Love.”

2012: Anne Hathaway marries Adam Shulman, a jeweler, in California. The couple sold their wedding photos and gave its proceeds to Freedom to Marry, a same-sex marriage advocacy group. 

Saturday, September 28th

1960: Connie Francis’ "My Heart has a Mind of Its Own" hits number one. The song took three sessions to record and was Francis’ second consecutive Billboard Hot 100.

2010: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison files for divorce from Melanie Craft after a six-year marriage. Craft is a well-known romance novelist with titles such as: A Hard-Hearted Man, Trust Me, and Man Trouble. 

Friday, September 27th

1973: Barbra Streisand releases Billboard Song of the Year (1974) “The Way We Were.” The song was produced for the movie, under the same name The Way We Were, along with All in Love is Fair.

2014: Long-time eligible bachelor George Clooney marries British-Lebanese activist/lawyer Amal Alamuddin in Venice. The couple has a set of twins together, Ella and Alexander.

Thursday, September 26th

1904: George Bernard Shaw’s How He Lied to Her Husband premieres in NYC. The play works off of Shaw’s Candida and features a foolishly cuckolded husband.

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1957: West Side Story, written by Leonard Bernstein and Steven Sondheim, premieres at NYC’S Winter Garden Theater. The story line highlights similarities within relationships despite cultural and street differences between the two gangs and is seen as a contemporary Romeo & Juliet  

Wednesday, September 25th

1954: Actress Audrey Hepburn marries fellow actor Mel Ferrer in Switzerland. The pair met at a dinner party, which led them to star in War and Peace together.

1952: Actor Christopher Reeve is born in New York City.  He is known for playing Superman before becoming paralyzed in 1996

Tuesday, September 24th

1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is known for incredible novels such as The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and the Damned.

2005: Actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore get married. Demi is more than 14 years older than Aston and this caused significant controversy, before their divorce in 2013.

Monday, September 23rd

1964: Fiddler on the Roof premieres in NYC. The play circulates around a Jewish man whose daughters are all marrying for love, which their father fears will move them away from their faith.

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2009: Modern Family premieres on ABC. The show stars Ed O’Neil and Sofia Vergara as a new kind of family.

Sunday, September 22nd

1976: Charlie’s Angels debuts. Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith work to fight crimes at the whim of their boss, the unseen, Charlie. 

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1989: Baywatch premieres on NBC for the first time. The show introduces stars like David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson to the world.

Saturday, September 21st

1996: International supermodel Christie Brinkey gets married for the fourth time to architect Peter Cook. After over 20 years of marriage, the pair split in a nasty-public divorce.

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2016: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerburg and pediatrician wife Priscilla Chan pledge over three billion dollars to medical research. The pair are determined to create a disease free world for their children by the end of the century. 

Friday, September 20th

1904: George Ade’s College Widow opens at NYC’s Garden Theatre. The play is loosely based on the story of a widow who would live near college towns to date college students.

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1934: Italian actress Sophia Loren is born in Rome, Italy. She starred in movies such as Two Women, Marriage Italian Style, The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples. At 85, she is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Thursday, September 19

1945: Child actress Shirley Temple, 17, marries fellow actor John Agar, 24, in Wilshire Methodist Church. Agar debuted as Temple’s lover in Fort Apache, before getting signed with her boss after their wedding.

2016: After dating for seven years, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s marriage fails after two years due to irreconcilable differences. The two have each gone through multiple high-profile divorces, but this one dragged their six children into the fray.

Wednesday, September 18th

1897: Gustave Kecker and Hugh Martin’s musical Belle of New York City premieres at the Casino Theatre before transferring to London’s West End. The story is focused around a Salvation Army girl who is willing to do anything to find true love.

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1971: Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress, is born in Baltimore, Maryland. She is well known for staring in over 20 movies while being married to Will Smith and mother to their well-known children, Jaden and Willow

Tuesday, September 17th

1964: The Supremes release their single song “Baby Love” from their second album entitled Where Did Our Love Go.

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1977: Fleetwood Mac’s 11th album remains #1 on the charts for the 19th straight week. The bandmates struggled with relationship problems during the recording of their  hit singles “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams” and “You Make Loving Fun.”

Monday, September 16th

1924: Lauren Bacall is born in Staten Island. She is known for her sultry look and distinctive voice within her movie credits of Dark Passage, Key Largo, The Big Sleep, and How to Marry a Millionaire, as well as her marriages to actors Humphrey Bogart and later Jason Robards.

1966: The Metropolitan Opera House opens it’s doors in its new building at Lincoln Center. The Met opened with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Anthony and Cleopatra.

Sunday, September 15th

1951: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes closes at the Ziegfeld Theatre in NYC after a total of 740 performances starring Carol Channing in her Broadway debut. The movie stars Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russel.

1984: British Heartthrob Henry Charles Albert David Winston  Prince Harry of Wales, is born in London to Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Prince Harry was known as a playboy and eligible bachelor, until his recent wedding to American actress Meghan Markle.

Saturday, September 14th

1983: British singer Amy Winehouse is born in London. Her deep vocals on the album Back to Black lead her to become the UK’s best-selling album of the 21st century.

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1984: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory star Gene Wilder marries Saturday Night Live comedian Gilda Radner in France. The two met on the set of Hanky Panky and became fast friends. After filming, their relationship grew, becoming serious and the two tried to have children before Radner died of ovarian cancer. 

Friday, September 13th

1989: Les Miserables opens at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit. It went on to play there another 10 different times, due to its critical success.

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1997: Elton John re-releases “Candle in the Wind” as a tribute to the passing of Diana, Princess of Wales. He performed it live at the funeral service and the single’s global proceeds went to Diana’s charities.

Thursday, September 12th

1846: Poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett marry in London. It was Barrett’s prolific writing success that drew Browning towards her. She is known for poems such as “How Do I Love Thee?” and “Lady Geraldine's Courtship.”

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1953: Future POTUS, John F. Kennedy, marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island. The two wed only a year after meeting at a dinner party held by journalists

Wednesday, September 11th

1962: The Beatles drop “Love Me Do” and “PS I Love You” featuring Andy White on the drums.  The group premiered the songs three different times with three different drummers.

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2005: Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is adapted into a movie starring Kiera Knightly as Elizabeth Bennet. It is the third movie adaption of the book and attempts to stay as accurate to the book’s romantic nature as possible.

Tuesday, September 10th

1991: Nirvana releases the song “Smells like Teen Spirit” to little reception. The song quickly grew in popularity and became a teenage anthem.

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1999: At the Venice Film Festival, Brad Pitt stars in Fight Club. The movie depicts a complex relationship with love, life and risk.

Monday, September 9th

1951: The soap opera Love of Life premieres on CBS. It ran for almost 30 years and changed how soaps ran.  

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 2012: Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively marries Green Lantern co-star Ryan Reynolds in South Carolina. It is speculated that he cheated on his first wife, Scarlett Johansson, with Lively as their divorce was not finalized when the two started filming Green Lantern.  

Sunday, September 8th

1994: The MTV Video Music Awards opens with newlyweds Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. The two had a long-complicated relationship which lasted only four years.

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 1999: American Beauty premieres in Los Angeles. Kevin Spacey plays a 42-year-old who falls in love with his teenage daughter’s best friend. 

Saturday, September 7th

1943: Gilda actress Rita Hayworth marries director Orson Welles, during their run of The Mercury Wonder Show, in a civil ceremony. The two returned to work hours later, after only announcing the marriage to their co-workers the day before. The marriage floundered, as Hayworth believed Welles did not want to be tied down with a family-they had one daughter-or a wife.

1987: Keith Sweat releases his first song “I Want Her.” The song was the number one single of 1988 on the Billboard Hot R&B chart.

Friday, September 6th

1997: The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, is held at Westminster Abbey, London. Her two sons and ex-husband walked behind the coffin during the funeral procession.

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 2001: At the 18th MTV Video Music Awards “Lady Marmalade” produces a win for the cover done by Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya, and Pink. The music video features all four in lingerie alongside a cameo by Missy Elliot. 

Thursday, September 5th

1989: The Joan Rivers Show premieres as a daytime talk show, for which she won an Emmy. It was the second show she starred in.

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1991: John Travolta marries Kelly Preston. The couple has three children and regularly attend marriage counseling. 

Wednesday, September 4th

1991: Most Happy Fella reopens at the NY State Theater in NYC. The play demonstrates the complexity of the mail-order bride system and men’s desperation for marriage. 

1998: Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall marries Mark Levinson, an audio designer. The two co-authored the book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm in 2002, before getting a divorce in 2004.

Tuesday, September 3rd

1977: I Dream of Jennie star Barbara Eden marries Charles Donald Fegert. The two divorced in 1982.

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1977: The Mary Tyler Moore Show broadcasts its last episode on CBS titled “ The Last Show” which was watched by 21 million viewers. The show stars a single working woman and highlights female and romantic topics that are typically taboo in the time period. 

Monday, September 2nd

1931: Bing Crosby’s first song is played on the radio and Crosby became a hit. “Out of Nowhere," "Just One More Chance", “At Your Command" and “I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)" were among the best selling songs of 1931 making Cosby a leader in record sales and radio ratings.

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 1995: Actor Charlie Sheen marries model Donna Peele in Malibu, California. Later that year he is named a client by Heidi Fleiss’ escort agency; the couple files for divorce in 1996.

Sunday, September 1st

1954: Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Grace Kelly, premieres. The movie shines a new light on voyeurism and idealizes the “peeping tom.”

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2002: Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress Sarah Michelle Gellar marries I Know What you Did Last Summer co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr. in Mexico. The couple has two child and have co-starred in multiple movies together such as: Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Happily N'Ever After, and Star Wars Rebels. 

Saturday, August 31st

1949: Richard Gere is born in Philadelphia. Known for his acting in Pretty Woman, Gere is also one of the first notable actors to portray a homosexual in the Broadway  production of Bent, for which he won a Theatre World Award.

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2014: Singer Donnie Walhberg marries Playmate of the Year and TV host, Jenny McCarthy. The two wed at the Hotel Baker, Illinois.

Friday, August 30th

1972: Cameron Diaz is born in Long Beach California. Diaz stars in many romances such as My Best Friend’s Wedding, Charlie’s Angels, Sex Tape, and The Other Women. 

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1994: R&B rapper R. Kelly, 27, supposedly marries Aaliyah, despite her age of 15. The two denied the relationship ever escalated past friendship. 

Thursday, August 29th

1982: Ingrid Bergman dies on her 67th birthday. She starred in iconic films such as Casablanca and a series of Alfred Hitchcock movies. 

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2017: Janine Charrat, famed French ballerina, dies at 93 years old. She choreographed over 50 performances, throughout her 80-year career. 

Wednesday, August 28th 

1965: Shania Twain is born in Ontario, Canada. Twain is known for her rise to fame within the country and pop-infused decade of the 90’s, and remains popular to this day. 

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2009: Amy Winehouse gets a divorce from Blake Fielder-Civil. He cites adultery as the reason for the conclusion of the two-year marriage. 

Tuesday, August 27th 

1946: Barbara Bach is born, in Queens, New York. An American actress, known for playing the Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me, who married Ringo Starr in 1981.  

1953: Roman Holiday premiers, staring Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess seeing Rome on her own. Her performance won her an Academy Award for Best Actress. 

Monday, August 26th

1967: Belle de Jour, a French romantic drama, starring Catherine Deneuve, wins a Golden Lion at The 28th Venice Film Festival. The story revolves around a young woman who works as a high-class prostitute, while her husband works. 

1992: Anna Karenina premieres in New York for 46 performances, based on the Leo Tolstoy classic. The play focuses on an unhappy married woman and her spoiled relationship with a Count. 

Sunday, August 25th 

1981: Rachel Bilson is born in Los Angeles. She made her prime time TV debut on The O.C. and then moved on to star in Hart of Dixie. 

1998: Lauryn Hill drops her debut single album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The album was recorded in and inspired by Jamaica, featuring reggae sounds, alongside blends of R& B, hip-hop, and doo-wop. Its themes focused on women’s lives and the complexity of relationships, winning five awards at the Grammys.

Saturday, August 24th

1981: Romantic heartthrob, Chad Michael Murray, is born, in Buffalo New York. He is known for roles in One Three Hill and A Cinderella Story. Prior to stardom he supported himself as a model for Gucci and Tommy Hilfiger. 

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1987: “McDreamy” actor Patrick Dempsey, aged 21, marries his manager and acting coach, Rocky Parker, aged 47. The couple divorced in 1994, after seven years of marriage. 

Friday, August 23rd

1963: The Beatles release “She Loves You” as a single in the United Kingdom. The song was The Beatles best-selling single of all time in the UK. 

2014: American actress and philanthropist, Angelina Jolie, marries producer and actor, Brad Pitt, in France. After getting engaged in 2012, the couple finally tied the knot, having vowed to do so only after the legalization of gay marriage, with all of their children taking part in the wedding. 

Thursday, August 22nd

1862: Claude Debussy, composer of romantic classics “Clair de Lune” and “La Mer” is born in France. 

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1954: Shakespeare’s classic play Romeo and Juliet is reworked into a movie directed by Renato Castellani and starring Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentell. The movie version of the play wins a Golden Lion at the 15th Venice Film Festival.

Wednesday, August 21st

1978: The first gay themed television-based film, Matlovich vs US Air Force, premiers. The movie is based on the true story of Leonard Matlovich, an U.S. Air Force sergeant, who was dismissed from the force for being gay. 

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1983: The play La Cage aux Folles, a musical based on a film about gay couple’s struggle to fit in with their son’s fiancée’s ultraconservative family, opens at Palace Theater in New York City. The story captivated audiences for over 1750 performances. 

Tuesday, August 20th

2011: Pop culture icon Kim Kardashian marries NBA basketball player Kris Humphries in a dreamy television wedding, in Montecito, California. After only 72 days of marriage, Kim filed for divorce and began dating longtime friend and rapper Kayne West, to whom she is now married with four children. 

2012: Phyllis Diller, groundbreaking female comedian, dies of natural causes at 95, in her home, in California. She was the first female comedian to openly discuss plastic surgery, female struggles and the status quo of gender and sexuality.

Monday, August 19th

1883: French fashion designer, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, is born in Saumur, France. She was the founder of Chanel and is known for helping to liberate women’s style from the pre-World War 1 corseted silhouettes and ushered in sporty-chic looks for women. 
 

1979: The Knack’s debut single, “My Sharonna” hits #1 and remained there for 42 days. The song took 15 minutes to write and was inspired by Fieger’s 17-year-old girlfriend, Sharonna, as he wanted to profess his love to her. 

Sunday, August 18th

1572: Henry IV of France marries his second cousin Margaret of Valois. He annulled the marriage, due to her inability to have children. He remarried a year later and had six kids with his new wife. 

1958: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published. Despite the content of the book--the question of rape and consensual sex between a stepfather and his preteen stepdaughter--it is continually ranked as one of the most beloved books of all times. 

Saturday, August 17th

1891: NYC opens its first public bathhouse, with showers. It is called People’s Bath and changes the levels of intimacy between New Yorkers in the summer heat.

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1893: Sex icon, actress, singer, and comedian Mae West is born in Brooklyn. She is known for her breezy, bawdy, sexual independence after penning, directing, and starring in her own Broadway musical entitled Sex.

Friday, August 16th

1954: Director of nontraditional romance films Titanic and Avatar, James Cameron, is born in Ontario. Cameron’s success with Titanic, which was the highest grossing film of all time coming in at $1.84 billion worldwide, was only surpassed in 2009 by his most recent blockbuster, Avatar.

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 1985: “The Queen of Pop” Madonna marries actor Sean Penn on her 27thbirthday. The two had only known each other six months. In 1986, she dedicated her third album, True Blue, to him before his violent tendencies drove a wedge between them and divorce proceedings began.

Thursday, August 15th

1769: Napoleon Bonaparte, leader of the French military and Emperor is born in France. He later weds a 32-year-old widow at 26, who he renames Josephine because he did not like her birth name, Rose.

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 1990: American super-actress Jennifer Lawrence is born in Louisville, Kentucky. She has consistently been the highest paid actress in the world and opts to play quirky and strong women, in complicated romances, due to her belief in female equality.

Wednesday, August 14th

1959: Earvin “Magic” Johnson is born in Michigan. He is known for being a three-time NBA MVP alongside being HIV positive, for which he has raised massive funds and awareness, within both the straight and LGBTQ+ communities.

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 1965: Model and fitness superstar Jane Fonda marries producer and director Roger Vadim in Las Vegas. After filing for divorce in 1973, Fonda married activist Tom Hayden.

Tuesday, August 13th

1860: Annie Oakley, American sharp shooter, is born in Ohio. Her talent was noticed when she won a shooting match against the traveling-show marksman Frank Butler, at the ripe age of 15. The two later married after she outshot him for $100. 

1994: Actor Alan Thicke marries former Miss World Gina Marie Tolleson. The two were married for nine years and Gina Marie acted as a stepmother to future “Blurred Lines” singer Robin Thick and his brother, Brennan.

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Monday, August 12th

1992: English model, Cara Delevingne, is born in London. She has appeared in many romance films such as Paper Towns, and Suicide Squad, while using her platform to preach LGBTQ+ rights.

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 2011: Rock star John Mellencamp’s third marriage fails. He files for an amicable divorce from his model wife, Elaine Irwin, after 18 years of marriage and two sons, and is currently back dating his ex, Meg Ryan.

Sunday, August 11th

1956: Jackson Pollock, renowned expressionist artist, was killed at the age of 44. He was drunk driving and totaled his car with his mistress, Ruth Kligman, at his side. She survived, and later went on to have a relationship with artist William De Kooning. 

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1983: Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor known for his roles in Thor and The Avengers is born. His younger brother, Liam Hemsworth, juat separated fromm his wife Miley Cyrus. 

Saturday, August 10th

1942: Betsy Johnson, fashion designer, is born in Wethersfield, Connecticut. She is known for her feminine and whimsical style of clothing. 

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1986: Me & My Girl opens on Broadway’s Marquis Theater and runs for 1420 performances. The show features a couple that has to overcome economic and social difficulties to be welcomed into society.

Friday, August 9th

1963: Singer Whitney Houston is born in Newark, New Jersey. She is one of the best-selling artists of all time despite her career being cut short due to her death at 48. 

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1997: Tim McGraw releases “Just to See You Smile” about his wife Faith Hill. The song becomes the Billboard Song of the Year in 1998. 

Thursday,  August 8th

1998: Shawn Mendes, teen heart throb and singer-songwriter, is born in Toronto, Canada. His songs tend to focus on the trials and tribulations of romance. 

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2001: Actor Tom Cruise and Actress Nicole Kidman divorce. The two had been married for 10 years, after meeting on the Days of Thunder set.

Wednesday, August 7th

1606: Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth is possibly performed in the Great Hall’s Hampton Court Palace. King James I looked on while Macbeth’s wife used her cunning to craft the downfall of her family. 

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1954: Musical genius Johnny Cash marries his first wife, Vivian Liberto, at 22. Vivian filed for divorce in 1966 due to his alcoholic ways and his cheating tendencies. She raised their four kids on her own following the divorce.

Tuesday, August 6th

1637: Ben Jonson dies at 65. He was a famous English playwright and poet who popularized plays of comedy, which feature romance. He was known to be only the second best in England for plays and literature behind Shakespeare.

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1911: Lucille Ball is born in Jamestown, New York. She stared, and self-produced a series of Lucy Shows such as I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and Life with Lucy. Her television studio, DesiLu, which she started with her first husband, produced hits such as Star Trek and Mission Impossible. She was one of the first female television entrepreneurs.

Monday, August 5th

1962: Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeanne Mortenson, is found dead at 36. She was an American movie star, sex symbol, and blonde bombshell who was found dead due to an apparent self-inflicted drug overdose on her bed by her psychiatrist. 

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1964: Director Mel Brooks marries actresses Anne Bancroft. The two wed at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau and stayed together until Bancroft’s death in 2005. 

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Sunday, August 4th

2001: Pierce Brosnan, James Bond actor, marries TV journalist and hostess Keely Shaye Smith. The two wed in the 785-year-old Ballintubber Abbey in Ireland, 

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2015: Muppet’s stars Miss Piggy and longtime boyfriend Kermit the Frog announced their split on Twitter. Miss Piggy claims to be dating co-star Topher Grace while Kermit is dating a sow named Grace.

Saturday, August 3rd

1926: Tony Bennet, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, is born in Queens, New York. He is known for having released almost 70 albums which feature songs such as “I Left my Heart in San Francisco” and “Because of You.” 

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2015: Singer and designer Gwen Stefani divorcees Gavin Rossdale, fellow artist, after 13 years of marriage. The two were married in two different ceremonies and have three kids together.

Friday, August 2nd

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1865: Lewis Carroll publishes his “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland.” The series was originally created as a gift to a little girl named Alice. 

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1997: Kelsey Grammer, Frazier actor, marries Playboy model Camille Donatacci in Malibu. The two divorced in 2011 under the scrutiny of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hill’s audience, during which the episode about the divorce was the highest rated episode of the season.

Thursday, August 1st

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1942: Actress Janet Leigh marries her childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle in Reno, Nevada. The pair were 14 and 18, respectively, and got divorced the same year. 

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1976: Elizabeth Taylor finalizes her sixth divorce, out of her total of eight. This was her second divorce from fellow actor Richard Burton. Their first divorce took place two years before.

Wednesday, July 31st

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1976: Renowned singer Natalie Cole marries Marvin Yancy, songwriter. Cole is the daughter of Nat King Cole. 

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1988: The last Playboy club closes. It was located in Lansing, Michigan. In 2014, a Playboy-themed lounge was put into a hotel in Los Angeles.

Tuesday, July 30th

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1997: Andy Gibb’s “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song stayed there from mid-July to September. 

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2007: Pop superstar Britney Spears files for divorce from Kevin Federline after only two years of marriage. The two had a reality TV show together called Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, which was comprised of home videos. 

Monday, July 29th

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1981: Prince Charles of Wales weds Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. The wedding results in a messy marriage, and divorce, with affairs on both sides.

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2000: Jennifer Aniston marries fellow actor Brad Pitt in a private ceremony in Malibu, California. The wedding ends with Brad Pitt’s speculated cheating and subsequent marriage to Angelina Jolie. 

Sunday, July 28th

1950: Actress Bette Davis weds Gary Merrill in Mexico. He was eight years her junior. 

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1992: Mary J. Blige drops her debut album What’s the 411. Puff Daddy helped produced the album which led Blige to become one of the most popular R&B singers of this generation. 

Saturday, July 27th

1890:  Dutch Artist Vincent van Gogh wounds himself with a self-inflicted gunshot. The artist dies, in Auvers-sur-Oise, two days later. 

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1997: The Marquis Theater wraps up Victor/Victoria after 738 performances. The play highlights the LGBTQ community while Julie Andrews received Tony nominees for her performance as the lead. 

Friday, July 26th

1755: Giacomo Casanova, a man whose name is synonymous with “womanizer,” is arrested for indecency and imprisoned at the Doge’s Palace. 

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1991: Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, is arrested. Herman was found exposing himself at an adult movies theater in Florida.

Thursday, July 25th

1933: Duke Ellington plays in the first live Dutch radio concert which ushers in a new era of radio’s importance. 

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1964: Here’s Love, a musical based on Miracle on 34th Street,  closes its curtains for the final time at the Shubert Theater.

Wednesday, July 24th

 1917: the trial of a Dutch seductress and exotic dancer Mata Hari starts in Paris. She was allegedly spying for Germany and caused the death of over 50,000 soldiers.

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1969: Jennifer Lopez, JLo, is born in The Bronx. She is known for her Latin flair in singing, dancing and acting. 

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Tuesday, July 23rd

1973, Monica Lewinsky is born. She is known for her affair with President Bill Clinton when she was a White House intern.

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1986, Britain’s Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson in Westminster Abbey. They divorced in May, 1996.

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Monday, July 22nd

1932, Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer is born in the Dominican Repubic.

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1992, Selena Gomez, international pop sensation is born.

Sunday, July 21st

1976- premiers on Broadway for the first of its 239 performances. The show is one of the first of its kind to be able to successfully highlight the complexities of mob romance.

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2010- Victoria’s Secret supermodel Miranda Kerr secretly marries actor Orlando Bloom. The divorced three years later, and have a son.

Saturday, July 20th

 1968, Jane Asher breaks off her engagement with Paul McCartney of the Beatles, on BBC. The two had been together for five years before Asher found him in bed with an American, Francie Schwartz 

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2015, the seemingly perfect couple of country singers Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert divorce after only four years of marriage.

Friday, July 19th

1553, Lady Jane Grey is replaced as the Queen of England by Mary I. She spent only nine days on the throne before being considered illegitimate, due to the nature of her parents’ relationship, and was usurped.

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2014, Adam Levine, Maroon 5’s lead vocalist, married Behati Prinsloo, Victoria’s Secret Model, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The two have two daughters together.

Thursday, July 18th

1970, The Boy Friend revival closes at The Ambassador Theater on Broadway, starring Laugh-In’s Judy Carne. When the romantic musical first opened on Broadway in 1954, it was the American stage debut of Julie Andrews. In 2003, Julie Andrews made her directorial debut with a production of The Boy Friend at the Bay Street Theater in Long Island.

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1992, “I Will Always Love You” singer Whitney Houston marries Bobby Brown which leads to a tumultuous relationship.

Wednesday, July 17th

1947, Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall and wife of Prince Charles of Wales, is born in London. Camilla’s complex relationship with Prince Charles set the stage for his divorce from Princess Diana. Prince Charles and Camilla dated in the 60’s and then got officially married in 2005.

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1952, 80’s heartthrob David Hasselhoff is born in Baltimore. 

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Tuesday, July 16th

1911, Ginger Rogers is born in Missouri. She becomes one half of the 30’s hit dance couple Astaire and Rogers and later pursues acting when the couple split.

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1994, Anna Nicole Smith, a 26-year-old Playmate of the year, married 89-year-old J. Howard Marshall II. It was said she never kissed him, had sex with him or lived with him, yet she claimed she loved him despite the age difference.

Monday, July 15th

1996, Prince Charles of Wales and Princess Diana of Wales sign divorce papers after the Queen sends letters encouraging them to divorce. The Prime Minister and senior Privy Counselors agreed after two weeks of discussion. This is the first divorce in the history of the British monarchy.

2005, the romantic comedy Wedding Crashers, which stars Vince Vaugh and Owen Wilson, hits theaters.

Sunday, July 14th

1790, Louis XVI and wife Marie Antoinette hold the first Fête de la Fédération to romanticize the progress of the French Révolution.

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1870, Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of American president Abraham Lincoln, is awarded a lifetime pension of $3,000 due to her husband’s assassination while president.

Saturday, July 13th

1939, heartthrob Frank Sinatra’s first record debuts. He was paid $125 a week for over 40 recordings produced in Chicago.

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2009, Shakira’s “She Wolf” drops revealing Shakira’s dissatisfaction with her partner. It receives international acclaim and helped promote her eighth international album.

Friday, July 12th

1904, Pablo Neruda is born in Chile. He is known for his passionate love poems such as Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. 

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1918, Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khokhola, a dancer who introduced Picasso to high society. The two have a son, who became his father’s chauffeur. Due to an affair their marriage was annulled, but they separated, rather than divorced, as Picasso could then avoid the French law that required an even division of wealth. The two remained married until Olga died in 1955. 

Thursday, July 11th

2000, a new vaccine to help fight the HIV crisis is released, giving the

those affected hope for the first time.

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2009, Step It Up co-actors Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan marry in Malibu California. The two met on the set of the movie and both are dancers. They have a daughter and announced their divorce in April of 2018. 

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Wednesday, July 10th

1985, Playboy and Penthouse print nude pictures of Madonna.

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2012, The American Episcopal Church is the first church to approve the rites of gay marriage.