EVB2925140: Jean Aker, in court testified about the status of her marriage to Rudolph Valentino. June 5, 1922. Valentino married Alla Nazimova on May 13, 1922 before his divorce was legally final. With Valentino charged with bigamy, the couple had their marriage annulled and separated for a year. They remarried in 1923 and divorced in 1925 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925751: Russian cosmonaut Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova with her one-year-old daughter, Alyenushka. Valentina married cosmonaut Adrian Nikolayeva shortly after she became the first woman to be launched into space. Valentina became a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and remained politically active following the collapse of the USSR in 1991 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925753: Nicaragua President Anastasio Somoza challenged Pres. Figueres of Costa Rica to a duel. Jan. 12, 1955. His thuggish offer was made during the border war of 1954-55 between the Central American nations. A year earlier Somoza sent mercenary forces to Guatemala to assist the U.S. sponsored ouster progressive President, Jacobo Arbenz / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925853: Light heavyweight champion Archie Moore talks with ex-baseball star Jackie Robinson (right).They were at the Lighthouse Sports World Dinner, where Robinson a merit award from the New York Association for the Blind. On January 9, 1959, American Photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925929: Atty. General John Mitchell and wife Martha, greet the Nixons on their return from Europe. October 5, 1970. The President and First Lady were returning from a 12,000 mile European trip which took them to Italy, the Vatican, the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, Yugoslavia, Spain, Britain and Ireland / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925960: Pearl Mesta, an American socialite and political hostess, c. 1940. At age 27 Pearl married industrialist George Mesta, and at age 36 she was widowed with million fortune. She was portrayed by Ethel Merman in the 1950 Irving Berlin Broadway musical comedy and the 1953 film, CALL ME MADAME / Bridgeman Images