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World Events
U.S. Events
- Nellie Tayloe Ross takes office as governor of Wyoming (Jan. 5). She is the first woman governor in U.S. history.
- Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes is arrested (May 5) for teaching the theory of evolution, forbidden by state law.
- Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana: 689 deaths.
- Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.
Economics
Federal spending: $2.92 billion
Consumer Price Index: 17.5
Unemployment: 3.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World SeriesPittsburgh d. Washington (4-3)Stanley CupVictoria (WCHL) d. Montreal (3-1)WimbledonWomen: Suzanne Lenglen d. J. Fry (6-2 6-0)
Men: Rene Lacoste d. J. Borotra (6-3 6-3 4-6 8-6)Kentucky Derby ChampionFlying EbonyNCAA Football ChampionsAlabama (CFRA, HF) (10-0-0) & Dartmouth (DS) (8-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: So Big, Edna Ferber
Drama: They Knew What They Wanted, Sidney Howard Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw (Ireland) Miss America: Fay Lamphier (CA) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Radio's The Smith Family introduces the soap opera format.
- Sergei Eisenstein makes Potemkin, a revolutionary portrait of mutiny aboard a battleship. In the hands of Eisenstein, montage is raised to the highest structural role in filmmaking, serving as the unifying element of the medium.
- Ben-Hur, costing a record-setting $3.95 million to produce, is released.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: In 1926, the 1925 prize was awarded to Richard Zsigmondy (Germany), for work on the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions Physics: James Franck and Gustav Hertz (Germany), for discovery of laws governing impact of electrons upon atoms Physiology or Medicine: None awarded
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