Additional
World Events
- A general
strike in Britain
brings the nation's activities to a standstill.
- U.S. marines
are dispatched to Nicaragua
during the revolt; they remain until 1933.
-
Chiang
Kai-shek becomes leader of China's
revolutionary party following the 1925 death of
Sun Yat-sen.
-
Richard E.
Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly from
Spitsbergen to the North Pole and back.
Nobel
Peace Prize:
Aristide Briand (France) and Gustav Stresemann (Germany)
Additional U.S. Events
- U.S. troops land in Nicaragua
(May 2) to preserve order after a revolt against the new president
Emiliano Chamorro.
-
Father Coughlin
makes his first radio broadcast, beginning his 20-year career of
racist and right-wing polemics.
U.S. Statistics
President:
Calvin
Coolidge
Vice President:
Charles G.
Dawes
Population: 117,397,000
Federal
spending: $2.93 billion
Consumer Price Index: 17.7
Unemployment: 1.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World Series
St. Louis Cardinals d. NY Yankees (4-3)
Stanley Cup
Montreal Maroons d. Victoria (WHL) (3-1)
Wimbledon
Women: Kathleen Godfree d. L. de Alvarez (6-2 4-6 6-3)
Men: Jean Borotra d. H. Kinsey (8-6 6-1 6-3)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Bubbling Over
NCAA Football Champions
Alabama (CFRA, HF) (9-0-1) & Stanford (DS) (10-0-1)
Entertainment
Events
-
RCA, General Electric and
Westinghouse establish NBC, which operates two national radio
networks.
-
The Book-of-the-Month Club is
founded and begins to sell books at reduced prices by mail and
on a subscription basis.
-
Martha Graham, the
American pioneer of the modern-dance revolt, gives her first New
York performance, which features 18 barefoot, evocatively
costumed dancers.
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
Drama: Craig's Wife, George Kelly
Nobel Prize for
Literature: Grazia Deledda (Italy)
Miss America:
Norma Smallwood (OK)
Science
-
Robert Goddard fires
the first liquid fuel rocket.
-
Automobile Antifreeze
allows people to use cars year-round.
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