On this day in history - Today, October, 08

Today in History

• 1956 The first perfect game in Major League Baseball World Series

  New York Yankees’ Don Larsen pitched the only no-hitter game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the hi

• 1948 World’s first internal pacemaker implanted

  A 43-year-old man called Arne Larsson was the recipient of the pacemaker which worked only for a few

• 1919 World’s first transcontinental air race

  63 airplanes – 15 from San Francisco and 48 from New York – took part in this 5400-mile round-trip r

• 1912 First Balkan war begins

  Montenegro started the conflict by declaring war on the Ottoman Empire. A few days later Greece, Bu

• 1871 Great Chicago fire begins

  The fire that destroyed most of Chicago’s business district began in a barn on the evening of Octobe