On this day: August 10

POSTED: 09:56 AM PDT Aug 07, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Aug 09, 2012 

Magellan sets sail, "Candid Camera" moves to TV, the "Son of Sam" is arrested and Michael Phelps earns his first gold in Beijing, all on this day.

OTD August 10 - space station wedding
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Richard Carson/Reuters

2003: Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Ekaterina Dmitriev are married in the first ever marriage from space. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. Dmitriev is seen here with a cardboard cutout of Malenchenko at a press conference following the wedding.

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