Monaco Prince engaged to Charlene Wittstock
2010 - Prince Albert of Monaco is engaged to marry Charlene Wittstock, a former Olympic swimmer for South Africa, a union that will give this wealthy Mediterranean principality its first crown princess since American Grace Kelly died in 1982. The palace announces the engagement of “His Serene Highness”, 52, and Wittstock, 32, who also worked as a school teacher before moving to Monaco.
It will be the first marriage of a reigning prince since Hollywood actress Grace Kelly married Albert’s father, Prince Rainier III, to massive hoopla in 1956. Albert met the willowy Wittstock in 2000 when she came to Monaco for a swimming competition. According to protocol, royal couples must wait at least six months between the announcement of the engagement and the wedding.
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1868 - American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes is granted a patent for a device he calls a “type-writer”.
1934 - Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign peace treaty after seven-week border war.
1938 - The world’s first occeanarium ‘Marineland’, opens in Florida, US.
1952 - US Air Force bombs hydroelectric plants in North Korea.
1956 - Colonel Jamal Abdul Nasser is elected president of Egypt.
1961 - Antarctic Treaty goes into effect.
1970 - Japanese students clash with police in Tokyo in huge demonstration against continuing US-Japan security pact.
1979 - West Indies beat England by 92 runs in the final to retain the Prudential cricket World Cup at Lords.
1980 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, dies in a plane crash.
1983 - A 21-hour hijack drama ends peacefully in Larnaca, Cyprus, after two teenage Lebanese hijackers surrender to the police.
1985 - An Air India Flight 182 named Kanishka crashes into the North Atlantic off Ireland killing all 329 on board.
1988 - Landslide hits a Turkish village near the Black Sea killing about 300 people.
1990 - The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty and changes its name from Moldavia to Moldova.
1993 - UN offers reward for capturing Somalia warlord Mohammad Farah Aidid.
1994 - South Africa reclaims its seat at the United Nations.
1996 - Michael Johnson breaks the 200-metre world record by 19.66 seconds.