Past October 8s: 1604: The supernova called “Kepler’s Nova” is first sighted. 1871: Chicago fire begins. More than 17,400 buildings are burned, 250 people die, and nearly 100,000 are left homeless. 1906: Karl Nessler demonstrates first “permanent wave” for hair. (London) 1956: Don Larsen pitches only perfect World Series game as the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0. 1957: The Brooklyn baseball club announces that it has accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles. 1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1999: Laila Ali, the 21-year-old daughter of Muhammad Ali, makes her professional boxing debut by knocking out opponent April Fowler 31 seconds after the opening bell in Verona, N.Y. 2005: Earthquake in Kashmir kills approximately 80,000 people. 2009: Two people die and more than a dozen others are hospitalized following a botched sweat lodge ceremony at a retreat run by motivational speaker and author James Arthur Ray near Sedona, Arizona. A third participant in the ceremony dies nine days later.
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