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World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (Switzerland)

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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.
Mexican revolution begins; Francisco Madero publishes his manifesto La sucesi�n presidencial en 1910.
Japan formally annexes Korea.

President: William H. Taft
Vice President: James S. Sherman
Population: 92,407,000

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Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.
Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, becomes immigration center for Asians entering U.S.

Federal spending:   $0.69 billion
Unemployment:   5.9%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Philadelphia A's d. Chicago Cubs (4-1)

Montreal Wanderers

Women: Dorothea Chambers d. D. Boothby (6-2 6-2)
Men: Tony Wilding d. A. Gore (6-4 7-5 4-6 6-2)

Donau

Harvard (CFRA, HF) (8-0-1) & Pittsburgh (NCF) (9-0-0)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Paul von Heyse (Germany)

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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