DECEMBER 11
1951:Joltin' Joe DiMaggio holds a press conference to announce his retirement from baseball, after 13 years of playing for the New York Yankees.
1911: Marie Curie becomes the first person to receive a second
Nobel Prize, receiving the recognition in the field of chemistry for
her work in isolating radium. She received her first prize in physics in
1903 along with husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel.
1981: Boxing great Muhammad Ali
faces Trevor Berbick in Nassau, the Bahamas, in a unanimous 10-round
defeat that will ultimately be the former heavyweight champion's last
fight. "The Greatest" retires from the ring with a 56-5 record.
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