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| The classic red-and-white Etch A Sketch model (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
OCTOBER 6
1889:Spanish-born businessman Joseph Oller opens the famed Moulin Rouge cabaret, the birthplace of the cancan, in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris, France.
1966: Twenty-year-old Jim Palmer of the Baltimore Orioles is the youngest pitcher to throw a complete-game shutout in a World Series, besting the Los Angeles Dodgers and star Sandy Koufax, 6-0.
1997: American biochemist and University of California, San Francisco, professor Stanley Prusiner learns he is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering prions, a new type of disease-causing agent. Prions are responsible for mad cow disease, among other conditions.
1927:The era of talking pictures arrived with the debut of "The Jazz Singer."
1908:After thirty years of Austrian occupation, Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1908:Ohio Art Company, makers of Etch-A-Sketch, was founded by Henry Simon Winzeler
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