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.
The Bakken Library and Museum
1958: Dr. Ake Senning implants the first internal heart pacemaker at the Karolinska Institute in Solna, Sweden. The prototype device, which used only two transistors and was the size of a hockey puck, fails after three hours and is replaced by a second device that lasts for two days. The patient, Arne Larsson, went on to receive 26 different pacemakers during his lifetime before dying in 2001 at the age of 86.
