ON THIS DATE...(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: Associated Press

Today is Friday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 1998. There are 20 days left in the year.

In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Ten years ago: A Soviet military transport plane crashed, killing nearly 80 people involved in Armenian earthquake relief efforts. Sixty-two people were killed when tons of …