On this day: October 8
POSTED: 01:42 PM PDT Oct 05, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Oct 07, 2012
Chicago burns, Don Larsen is perfection in the World Series, Jerry Lee Lewis records his biggest hit, and Martha Stewart reports to prison, all on this day.
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1906: German native Karl Ludwig Nessler demonstrates the first "permanent wave" for hair, in his beauty salon in Oxford Street, London, to an invited audience of hair stylists. The hair is soaked with an alkaline solution and rolled on metal rods that are then heated strongly. Nessler, who also invented false eyelashes, would move to the United States with the outbreak of World War I and open salons in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Palm Beach and Philadelphia with a peak of 500 employees.
