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World Events
U.S. Events
- Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. (May 30).
- Coal miners strike for nearly six months to protest wage cuts. The strike, one of several organized by the United Mine Workers of America since 1919, cripples the coal mining industry.
Economics
Federal spending: $3.29 billion Consumer Price Index: 16.8 Unemployment: 6.7% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World SeriesNY Giants d. NY Yankees (4-0-1)Stanley CupToronto St. Pats d. Vancouver (PCHA) (3-2)WimbledonWomen: Suzanne Lenglen d. M. Mallory (6-2 6-0) Men: Gerald Patterson d. R. Lycett (6-3 6-4 6-2)Kentucky Derby ChampionMorvichNCAA Football ChampionsPrinceton (CFRA) (8-0-0) California (NCF) (9-0-0) & Cornell (HF) (8-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: Alice Adams, Booth Tarkington Drama: Anna Christie, Eugene O'Neill Nobel Prize for Literature: Jacinto Benavente (Spain) Miss America: Mary Campbell (OH) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Reacting to problems posed by the Radio Act of 1912, the Commerce Department allows powerful stations to use the 400m wavelength as long as they only broadcast live music.
- James Joyce's Ulysses published. The U.S. Post Office destroys 500 copies of the novel.
- Reader's Digest debuts.
- Karel Capek's play R.U.R. debuts, introducing the word "robot."
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Francis W. Aston (UK), for discovery of isotopes in nonradioactive elements and for discovery of the whole number rule Physics: Niels Bohr (Denmark), for investigation of structure of atoms and radiations emanating from them Physiology or Medicine: In 1923, the 1922 prize was shared by Archibald V. Hill (UK), for discovery relating to heat-production in muscles; and Otto Meyerhof (Germany), for correlation between consumption of oxygen and production of lactic acid in muscles
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