On July 29, 2014, ESPN suspended co-host Stephen A. Smith from the show for one week over his controversial comments regarding the NFL's decision to suspend Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for the first two games of the 2014 season as a result of his domestic violence incident with his fiancee fiancÃ©e months. ago
The Occasion of the First Award. The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded at a meeting of the Norwegian Parliament which took place at ten o'clock on the morning of December 10, 1901. The ceremony was brief, lasting only fifteen minutes.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901. Wilhelm Conrad RÃ¶ntgen. Wilhelm Conrad RÃ¶ntgen was born on March 27, 1845, at Lennep in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany, as the only child of a merchant in, and manufacturer of, cloth. His mother was Charlotte Constanze Frowein of Amsterdam, a member of an old Lennep family which had settled in Amsterdam.