Top News Stories from 1907
World Events
World Statistics
Population: 4.378 billion
population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: Ernesto T. Moneta (Italy) and Louis Renault (France)
More World Statistics... - Second Hague Peace Conference, of 46 nations, adopts 10 conventions on rules of war.
- The first Cubist exhibition is held in Paris.
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks
Population: 87,008,000
More U.S. Statistics... - Fall of the stock market sparks financial panic across the U.S.
- Oklahoma becomes the country's 46th state.
Economics
Federal spending: $0.58 billion
Unemployment: 2.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World Series
Chicago Cubs d. Detroit (4-0-1)Stanley Cup
Kenora Thistles/Montreal WanderersWimbledon
Women: May Sutton d. D. Chambers (6-1 6-4)Men: Norman Brookes d. A. Gore (64 62 62)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Pink StarNCAA Football Champions
Yale (9-0-1)Entertainment
Events
- Florenz Ziegfeld introduces his Ziegfeld Follies, the legendary musical extravaganzas.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
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
More Nobel Prizes in 1998... - Radiometric dating finds the earth is 2.2 billion years old.
