Milestones: Apr. 20, 1962

Married. Habib Bourguiba, 58, mercurial President of Tunisia; and Ouassila Ben Ammar, 49, plump onetime street fighter for Tunisia's 1956-granted independence and part of the presidential entourage ever since; both for the second time; in the House of Happiness, the President's palace in La Marsa, Tunisia. Bourguiba thoughtfully awarded his nation's top honor, the Order of Independence, to his first wife, French-born Mathilde Laurin, 72, after he divorced her last year.

Died. Harold Albert Lamb, 69, gifted popularizer of history who chronicled the Oriental despots from Genghis Khan to Suleiman the Magnificent, a...

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