It happened on a… December 11

2019

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is named Time magazine’s Person of the Year

2015

“Playboy” magazine publishes its last nude issue, features Pamela Anderson on the cover.

2014

World’s first male sex organ transplant procedure by a team from Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

2008

Bernard Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

1997

More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth’s “greenhouse gases.”

1981

Muhammad Ali fought his last fight. He lost his 61st fight to Trevor Berbick.

1980

“Magnum P.I.” starring Tom Selleck premieres on CBS.

1964

Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech..

1961

Elvis Presley’s “Blue Hawaii” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks.

1951

Joe DiMaggio (New York Yankees) announced his retirement from major league baseball. DiMaggio only played for the Yankees during his 13-year career.

1944

Camilien Houde (right) re-elected Mayor of Montreal after release from Camp Petawawa.

1913

“Mona Lisa” recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum

1792

France’s King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state.

1730

Voltaire’s “Brutus” premieres in Paris.