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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
Federal spending: $0.69 billion Unemployment: 6.7% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World SeriesPhiladelphia A's d. NY Giants (4-2)Stanley CupOttawa SenatorsWimbledonWomen: Dorothea Chambers d. D. Boothby (6-0 6-0) Men: Tony Wilding d. R. Barrett (6-4 4-6 2-6 6-2 (ret))Kentucky Derby ChampionMeridianNCAA Football ChampionsPrinceton (CFRA, HF) (8-0-2) & Penn St. (NCF) (8-0-1)
Entertainment
Events- The first feature film is released when the two reels of D.W. Griffith's Enoch Arden are screened together.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Marie Curie (France), for discovery of elements radium and polonium Physics: Wilhelm Wien (Germany), for his laws governing the radiation of heat Physiology or Medicine: Allvar Gullstrand (Sweden), for work on the dioptrics of the eye
- British physicist Ernest Rutherford discovers the structure of an atom.
- American geneticist Thomas Morgan shows that inherited factors are represented by genes placed at specific sites along a chromosome.
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