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World Events
U.S. Events
- President Warren G. Harding suddenly falls ill (July 28) while returning from a trip to Alaska and is rushed to San Francisco, where he dies on Aug. 2.
- The second Ku Klux Klan movement in U.S. history grows, stirring widespread controversy and violence.
Economics
Federal spending: $3.14 billion Consumer Price Index: 17.1 Unemployment: 2.4% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World SeriesNY Yankees d. NY Giants (4-2)Stanley CupOttawa d. Vancouver (3-1) Ottawa d. Edmonton (2-0) WimbledonWomen: Suzanne Lenglen d. K. McKane (6-2 6-2) Men: Bill Johnston d. F. Hunter (6-0 6-3 6-1)Kentucky Derby ChampionZevNCAA Football ChampionsIllinois (CFRA, HF) (8-0-0) & Michigan (NCF) (8-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: One of Ours, Willa Cather Drama: Icebound, Owen Davis Nobel Prize for Literature: William B. Yeats (Ireland) Miss America: Mary Campbell (OH) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Russian immigrant Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube. He patents the first color tube in 1925.
- A.C. Nielsen Company is founded and provides measurements of radio audiences for advertisers.
- "Queen of the Blues" Bessie Smith records her first song, "Down Hearted Blues," which becomes an immediate success.
- Harlem's Cotton Club opens and presents all-black performances to white-only audiences. Entertainers will include Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, and Cab Calloway.
- German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin becomes film's first canine star.
- Time Magazine debuts.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Fritz Pregl (Austria), for method of microanalysis of organic substances discovered by him Physics: Robert A. Millikan (US), for work on elementary charge of electricity and photoelectric phenomena Physiology or Medicine: Sir Frederick Banting (Canada) and John J. R. Macleod (Scotland), for discovery of insulin
- A whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine is developed.
- Harry Steenbock discovers that radiating food with ultraviolet light adds vitamin D.
- Scopolamine, previously used as a childbirth anesthetic, is found to act as a "truth" serum after tests on convicts at San Quentin Prison.
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