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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
Federal spending: $0.69 billion
Unemployment: 4.6%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World SeriesBoston Red Sox d. NY Giants (4-3-1)Stanley CupQuebec BulldogsWimbledonWomen: Ethel Larcombe d. C. Sterry (6-3 6-1)
Men: Tony Wilding d. A. Gore (6-4 6-4 4-6 6-4)Kentucky Derby ChampionWorthNCAA Football ChampionsHarvard (CFRA, HF) (9-0-0) & Penn St. (NCF) (8-0-0)
Entertainment
Events- The Radio Act of 1912 assigns three- and four-letter codes to radio stations and limits broadcasting to the 360m wavelength, which jams signals.
- Photoplay debuts as the first magazine for movie fans.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Victor Grignard (France), for reagent discovered by him; and Paul Sabatier (France), for methods of hydrogenating organic compounds Physics: Gustaf Dalén (Sweden), for discovery of automatic regulators used in lighting lighthouses and light buoys Physiology or Medicine: Alexis Carrel (France), for work on vascular ligature and grafting of blood vessels and organs
- American Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt discovers a correlation between Cepheids' periods and luminosity, a relationship that becomes important to the measurement of interstellar and intergalactic distances.
- German meteorologist and geophysicist Alfred Wegener proposes the idea of continental drift.
- Piltdown Man hoax perpetuated. Supposed fossils said to be "missing link" in evolution. In 1953 it was found that human and ape bones were fraudulently aged.
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