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| Herbert Hoover, Republican,
Elected U.S. President With 444 Electoral Votes Democratic Candidate Al Smith Gets 87 Votes Chiang Kai-Shek Elected President Of China Amelia Earhart Is First Woman To Fly Across The Atlantic Toscanini Named Conductor Of The New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Maurice Ravels "Bolero" Becomes A Hit Popular Songs Are "Bill", "Am I Blue", "Crazy Rhythm", "Makin Whoopee", "Youre The Cream In My Coffee", And "Button Up Your Overcoat" Ernest Hemmingway Writes "Farewell To Arms" D. H. Lawrence Writes "Lady Chatterleys Lover" Carl Sandberg Writes "Good Morning, America" Alexander Fleming (1881-1954) Discovers Penicillin H. Geiger And W. Müller Construct The "Geiger Counter" Nobel Prize For Medicine: Charles Nicolle Of France For His Work On Typhus Indian Physicist C. V. Raman Discovers The Raman Effect: A Change In Wavelength Of Light That Is Scattered By Molecules Serge Veronoff Is Awarded The Nobel Prize For "The Conquest Of Life" For His Work On Rejuvenation By Transplanting Glands Women Participate For The First Time In The Olympic Games In Amsterdam And Sonja Henie, Norwegian Ice- Skating Champion Is Three Times Olympic Champion And 10 Times World Champion Al Jolson's Song "Sonny Boy" Sells 12 Million Records In Four Weeks Teleprinters And Teletypewriters Come Into Restricted Use In U.S., Britain, And Germany First Scheduled Television Broadcasts By WGY, Schenectady, N.Y. J. L. Baird Demonstrates Color TV |
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