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World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Ernesto T. Moneta (Italy) and Louis Renault (France)

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Second Hague Peace Conference, of 46 nations, adopts 10 conventions on rules of war.
The first Cubist exhibition is held in Paris.

President: Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks
Population: 87,008,000

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Federal spending:   $0.58 billion
Unemployment:   2.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Chicago Cubs d. Detroit (4-0-1)

Kenora Thistles/Montreal Wanderers

Women: May Sutton d. D. Chambers (6-1 6-4)
Men: Norman Brookes d. A. Gore (64 62 62)

Pink Star

Yale (9-0-1)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling (UK)

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Florenz Ziegfeld introduces his Ziegfeld Follies, the legendary musical extravaganzas.

Chemistry: Eduard Buchner (Germany), discovery of cell-less fermentation and investigations in biological chemistry

Physics: Albert A. Michelson (US), for spectroscopic and metrologic investigations

Physiology or Medicine: Charles L. A. Laveran (France), for work with protozoa in the generation of disease