In Westminster Abbey, London, future British Queen Princess Elizabeth II (21) marries Lt Philip Mountbatten (26) in 1947.
Princess Elizabeth, 21, and Prince Philip Mountbatten, 26, married on November 20, 1947, at Westminster Abbey in London. On his wedding day, Prince Philip, son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, was given the title Duke of Edinburgh.
Related On This Day
Donald Trump marries former model Marla Maples at the Trump Plaza Hotel in 1993.
Sacagawea, the Shoshone interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies at the age of 24 in 1812.
Autar Singh Paintal, an Indian medical scientist, died in 2004 at the age of 79.
Ashley Cole, an English football coach and former player who was born on December 20, 1980
Richard Branson marries Joan Templeman in the British Virgin Islands in 1989.
Emmanuel Macron, French politician and President of France, was born in Amiens, France, in 1977.
Samuel L. Jackson, an American actor, was born in Washington, D.C. in 1948.
Captain James Cook, a British explorer, marries Elizabeth Batts in 1762.
In Menlo Park, California, Thomas Edison secretly tested incandescent light in 1879.
Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first YouTube video to exceed one billion views in 2012.
Elton John, a British pop pianist and singer, marries Canadian filmmaker David Furnish in 2014.
Edmund Hillary marries June Mulgrew in 1989.
The first manned Moon mission, Apollo 8, was launched in 1968, with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders aboard.
Jonah Hill, an American actor, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1983.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American novelist, dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in 1940.
Radium is discovered by scientists Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898.
The first freight train operates in Roorkee, India, in 1851.