TUESDAY, Oct. 8, 2024

1906-Karl Nessler demonstrates first "permanent wave" for hair, in London

1912-First Balkan War begins

1945-Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada

1955-Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched

1962-Algeria admitted as 109th member of the U.N.

1962-N. Korea reports 100 percent election turnout, 100 percent vote for Workers' Party

1963-Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya

1970-Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

1971-John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"

1982-Poland bans Solidarity

1988-Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage

1990-Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters

1990-U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray & E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize