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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
Federal spending: $0.69 billion
Unemployment: 5.1%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World SeriesPittsburgh d. Detroit (4-3)Stanley CupOttawa SenatorsWimbledonWomen: Dora Boothby d. A. Morton (6-4 4-6 8-6)
Men: Arthur Gore d. M. Ritchie (6-8 1-6 6-2 6-2 6-2)Kentucky Derby ChampionWintergreenNCAA Football ChampionsYale (12-1-0)
Entertainment
Events- The New York Times publishes the first movie review, a report on D.W. Griffith's Pippa Passes.
- Serge Diaghilev opens the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, which begins the era of modern ballet and his 20-year reign as ballet's leading figure. Mikhail
Fokine, Diaghilev's choreographer, is considered the most influential choreographer of the 20th century.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Wilhelm Ostwald (Germany), for work on catalysis and investigations into chemical equilibrium and reaction rates Physics: Guglielmo Marconi (Italy) and Ferdinand Braun (Germany), for development of wireless Physiology or Medicine: Theodor Kocher (Switzerland), for work on the thyroid gland
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