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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
Federal spending: $5.06 billion
Consumer Price Index: 17.9
Unemployment: 11.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World SeriesNY Giants d. NY Yankees (5-3)Stanley CupOttawa d. Vancouver (PCHA) (3-2)WimbledonWomen: Suzanne Lenglen d. E. Ryan (6-2 6-0)
Men: Bill Tilden d. B. Norton (4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 7-5)Kentucky Derby ChampionBehave YourselfNCAA Football ChampionsCalifornia (CFRA) (9-0-1) & Cornell (NCF, HF) (8-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Drama: Miss Lulu Bett, Zona Gale Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France (France) Miss America: Margaret Gorman (DC) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- The Sheik, directed by George Melford, debuts and establishes star Rudolph Valentino as cinema's best-known lover.
- The Cleveland Playhouse opens, becoming the country's first resident professional theater.
- Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence wins Pulitzer Prize.
- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, the rotund actor, director and producer, is arrested on manslaughter charges, after a woman died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials, but his career in film never recovered.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Frederick Soddy (UK), for investigations into origin and nature of isotopes Physics: Albert Einstein (Germany), for discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect Physiology or Medicine: None awarded
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