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World Events
U.S. Events
- Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are electrocuted at Dedham (Mass.) Prison despite worldwide protesting over weak evidence (Aug. 23).
- The Holland Tunnel opens (Nov. 13) to connect Manhattan and Jersey City, N.J., giving cars a route under the Hudson River and an alternative to ferry boats.
Economics
Federal spending: $2.86 billion Consumer Price Index: 17.4 Unemployment: 3.3% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World SeriesNY Yankees d. Pittsburgh (4-0)Stanley CupOttawa d. Boston (2-0)WimbledonWomen: Helen Wills d. L. de Alvarez (6-2 6-4) Men: Henri Cochet d. J. Borotra (4-6 4-6 6-3 6-4 7-5)Kentucky Derby ChampionWhiskeryNCAA Football ChampionsYale (CFRA) (7-1-0) & Illinois (NCF, HF, DS) (7-0-1)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: Early Autumn, Louis Bromfield Drama: In Abraham's Bosom, Paul Green Nobel Prize for Literature: Henri Bergson (France) Miss America: Lois Delaner (IL) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Popular vaudevillian Al Jolson astounds audiences with his nightclub act in The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length talkie.
- The Broadway musical links with opera in Jerome Kern's revolutionary Show Boat.
- Dancer Isadora Duncan dies when her scarf gets caught in the wheel of a moving car.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: In 1928, the 1927 prize was awarded to Heinrich Wieland (Germany), for investigations of bile acids and kindred substances Physics: Arthur H. Compton (US), for discovery of Compton phenomenon; and Charles T. R. Wilson (UK), for method of perceiving paths taken by electrically charged particles Physiology or Medicine: Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Austria), for use of malaria inoculation in treatment of dementia paralytica
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