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World Events

World Statistics

Population: 4.378 billion
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U.S. Events

U.S. Statistics

President: Woodrow Wilson
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall
Population: 100,546,000
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  • The one millionth Ford automobile rolls off the assembly line.
  • The Superior Court in Fulton County, Ga. accepts the charter for the establishment of the new Ku Klux Klan (Dec. 4).

Economics

Federal spending: $0.75 billion
Consumer Price Index: $10.1
Unemployment: 8.5%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02

Sports

World Series
Boston Red Sox d. Philadelphia Phillies (4-1)
Stanley Cup
Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Regret
NCAA Football Champions
Cornell (9-0-0)

Entertainment

Entertainment Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (France)
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Events

  • D.W. Griffith's technically brilliant Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, introduces the narrative close-up, the flashback and other elements that endure today as the structural principles of narrative filmmaking.
  • Ruth St. Denis and her husband, Ted Shawn, establish the Denishawn dance school in Los Angeles, where Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey study.
  • Audrey Munson, playing a model for a sculptor in the film Inspiration, becomes the first actress to shed her clothes on screen.

Science

Nobel Prizes in Science

Chemistry: Richard Willstätter (Germany), for research into coloring matter of plants, especially chlorophyll
Physics: None awarded
Physics: Sir William Bragg and William L. Bragg (UK), for analysis of crystal structure by X-rays
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