Top News Stories from 1910
World Events
World Statistics
Population: 4.378 billion
population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (Switzerland)
More World Statistics... - Union of South Africa established, with its parliamentary capital in Cape Town and administrative capital in Pretoria (May 31).
- Portuguese monarchy ends. Teofilio Braga is selected as president of new republic.
- Japan formally annexes Korea.
- Mexican revolution begins; Francisco Madero publishes his manifesto La sucesión presidencial en 1910.
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: William H. Taft
Vice President: James S. Sherman
Population: 92,407,000
More U.S. Statistics... - Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.
- Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, becomes immigration center for Asians entering U.S.
Economics
Federal spending: $0.69 billion
Unemployment: 5.9%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World Series
Philadelphia A's d. Chicago Cubs (4-1)Stanley Cup
Montreal WanderersWimbledon
Women: Dorothea Chambers d. D. Boothby (6-2 6-2)Men: Tony Wilding d. A. Gore (6-4 7-5 4-6 6-2)
Kentucky Derby Champion
DonauNCAA Football Champions
Harvard (CFRA, HF) (8-0-1) & Pittsburgh (NCF) (9-0-0)Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Nobel Prize for Literature: Paul von Heyse (Germany)
More Entertainment Awards... Events
- Thomas Edison introduces his kinetophone, which makes talkies a reality.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Otto Wallach (Germany), for work in the field of alicyclic compounds
Physics: Johannes D. van der Waals (Netherlands), for work with the equation of state for gases and liquids
Physiology or Medicine: Albrecht Kossel (Germany), for achievements in the chemistry of the cell
More Nobel Prizes in 1998... - Halley's comet is observed photographically for the first time.
