On this day: December 11
POSTED: 08:24 PM PST Dec 10, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Dec 10, 2012
The world's first motor show opens in Paris, Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize, Muhammad Ali fights his last fight, and Bernie Madoff is arrested, all on this day.
St. Martin's Press
1957: Singer Jerry Lee Lewis, then 22, secretly marries his 13-year-old his first cousin once removed Myra Gale Brown. It was his third marriage and would last until December 1970. When word of the marriage leaked out the following year, the resulting scandal nearly ended Lewis' career.
