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World Events
U.S. Events
- Unemployment soars, prompting President Hoover
to appoint a Commission for Unemployment Relief.
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
is passed by Congress. The act brings retaliatory tariff acts from foreign countries, U.S. foreign trade suffers a sharp decline, and the depression intensifies.
- N.Y. Supreme Court Judge Joseph Crater withdraws all his money from the bank, sells his stock, and disappears. His fate is never learned.
Economics
Federal spending: $3.32 billion
Consumer Price Index: 16.7
Unemployment: 8.9%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World SeriesPhiladelphia A's d. St. Louis Cardinals (4-2)Stanley CupMontreal d. Boston (2-0)WimbledonWomen: Helen Moody d. E. Ryan (6-2 6-2)
Men: Bill Tilden d. W. Allison (6-3 9-7 6-4)Kentucky Derby ChampionGallant FoxNCAA Football ChampionsAlabama (CFRA) (10-0-0) & Notre Dame (NCF, HF, DS) (10-0-0)World CupUruguay d. Argentina (4-2)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Laughing Boy, Oliver La Farge
Drama: The Green Pastures, Marc Connelly Oscars awarded in 1930
Academy Award, Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal) Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis (US) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Crossley Inc. tabulates the first formal radio ratings system.
- Jean Rosenthal, one of the greatest lighting designers in theater history, pioneers the concept of stage lighting.
- As head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, William Hays establishes a code of decency that outlines what is acceptable in films.
- Grant Wood paints American Gothic.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Hans Fischer (Germany), for work on coloring matter of blood and leaves and for his synthesis of hemin Physics: Sir Chandrasekhara Raman (India), for work on diffusion of light and discovery of the Raman effect Physiology or Medicine: Karl Landsteiner (US), for discovery of human blood groups
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