February 13, 2003
Happy Valentine's Day, Everybody! Folks: love ain't something that should only be celebrated on February 14. Love's so darn big and wonderful that it should be celebrated every single darn day! Here's some great dates in the history of love and romance to mark on your calendars and get you into the lovin' mood all year `round!
- January 8, 1937: Bob Eubanks, host of TV’s "Newlywed Game," is born.
- January 21, 1939: Ria Langham moves to Las Vegas to establish residency in order to divorce actor Clark Gable. Langham’s stay would bring huge publicity to the then-sleepy resort town.
- January 26, 1998: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” — Bill Clinton
- February 15, 2000: Rick Rockwell and Darva Conger meet, marry on Fox’s "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?"
- February 18, 1933: Yoko Ono, patron saint of girlfriends who come between a guy and his friends, is born in Tokyo.
- March 5, 1973: New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich report to spring training and announce that they have swapped families — wives, children, and even dogs.
- March 10, 1905: Ernst Grafenberg, best known for his work in the development of the intrauterine device (IUD), the phenomenon of female ejaculation, and the female erogenous zone best known as the “G-Spot,” received his doctorate from the University of Berlin. Fittingly, he graduated “summa cum laude.”
- March 24, 1962: According to Marilyn Monroe’s biographer Donald Spoto, this was the date of Monroe’s and John F. Kennedy’s only intimate encounter, at Bing Crosby’s Palm Spring house.
- April 9, 1894: "She cried — and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook." Tommy Manville, the notorious American playboy who shared the above wisdom following the dissolution of one of his 13 marriages, born this day.
- April 16, 1972: Giant pandas Ling Ling and Tsing Tsing arrive at DC’s National Zoo, kicking off two decades of reproductive futility.
- May 10, 1999: Nearly seven years after firing a bullet into the head of Mary Jo Buttafucco, Amy Fisher, the “Long Island Lolita,” is released from prison.
- May 18, 1926: Popular evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson is reported missing in Los Angeles. She turns up in Mexico over a month later claiming to have been kidnapped and held captive, though a Grand Jury would determine that she had actually spent the time with Kenneth Ormiston, a married, radio engineer at her church station.
- June 20, 1996: Glynn “Scotty” Wolfe and Linda Essex marry. It is his 29th and final marriage and her 23rd — both records.
- June 27, 1964: Perhaps Hollywood history’s most disturbing coupling, Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine marry; they would divorce about one tumultuous month later.
- June 29, 1994: Prince Charles admits to a longtime adulterous affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. The admission followed the release of taped phone conversation between the two, including one where Charles famously expressed a wish to live inside her trousers, possibly as a Tampax.
- July 19, 1966: In one of Hollywood’s more bizarre marriages, 50-year old Frank Sinatra and 21-year-old Mia Farrow marry on this date. Sinatra later joked onstage, “I finally found a broad I can cheat on."
- July 23, 1969: California passes the United States’ first no-fault divorce law.
- September 5, 1921: Comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle meets actress Virginia Rappe at a San Francisco party — hilarity ensues.
- September 9, 1968: Debut of Bill Hoest’s The Lockhorns, the most depressingly unhappy couple in comic strip history.
- October 12, 1978: Sid Vicious is arrested at the Chelsea Hotel in New York for the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. According to the police report, Sid said, “I stabbed her but I didn’t mean to kill her. I loved her, but she treated me like shit.” He would die less than three months later of a drug overdose.
- November 20, 1995: During a one-hour BBC interview, Princess Diana admits to a five-year affair with her riding instructor, James Hewitt. A month later, Queen Elizabeth urged the couple to seek a divorce.
- December 12, 1639: First divorce in America granted to Mrs. James Luxford on grounds of adultery.
- December 30, 1992: Giant panda Ling Ling dies of heart failure at 23, ending 20 years of forced hookups with that ugly bastard Tsing Tsing.
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