1902
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Year 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1902
[edit] January
January - In France, Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis. January 1 - The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena. January 8 - A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains. January 25 - A snowstorm at Mount Hakkoda, northern Honshu, Japan, kills 199 during a military training exercise. January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
[edit] February
February 11 - Police and universal suffrage demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels. February 15 - The Berlin U-Bahn underground is opened. February 18 - US President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.
[edit] March
March 7 - Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men. March 10 - A Circuit Court prevents Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
[edit] April
April 2 - "Electric Theatre," the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California. April 13 - A new car speed record of 74mph is set in Nice, France, by Leon Serpollet. April 19 - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocks Guatemala, killing 2,000.
[edit] May
May 5 - The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service. May 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000. May 13 - Alfonso XIII of Spain begins his reign. May 15 - It is claimed that in a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore achieves flight in a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider). There is no surviving evidence to verify this claim. May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States. May 29 - Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics. May 31 - The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War.
[edit] June
June 2 - The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States. June 15 - The New York Central railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City, New York. June 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) win the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act. June 17 - Norwich City Football Club is formed June 26 - Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit.
[edit] July
July 10 - The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA kills 112 miners. July 11
Lord Salisbury retires as British prime minister. The Order of the Garter is conferred on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
July 14 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses.[edit] August
August 1 - 100 miners die in a pit explosion in Wollongong, Australia. August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom. August 22 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
[edit] October
October 16 - The first Borstal (youth offenders' institution) opens in Borstal, Kent, UK. October 21 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
[edit] November
November 30 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years hard labor. November-December - Venezuela Crisis between the United States and Germany.
[edit] December
December 10 - The first Aswan Dam on The Nile is completed. December 31 - Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S.
[edit] Ongoing
Discovery Expedition (1901-1904)
[edit] Births
1902 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1902
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Ab urbe condita 2655
Armenian calendar 1351
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Bahá'à calendar 58 – 59
Berber calendar 2852
Buddhist calendar 2446
Burmese calendar 1264
Byzantine calendar 7410 – 7411
Chinese calendar 辛丑年å一月廿二日
(4538/4598-11-22)
(4539/4599-12-2)
(4538/4598-11-22)
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壬寅年å二月åˆäºŒæ—¥(4539/4599-12-2)
Coptic calendar 1618 – 1619
Ethiopian calendar 1894 – 1895
Hebrew calendar 5662 – 5663
- Vikram Samvat 1957 – 1958
- Shaka Samvat 1824 – 1825
- Kali Yuga 5003 – 5004
Holocene calendar 11902
Iranian calendar 1280 – 1281
Islamic calendar 1319 – 1320
Japanese calendar Meiji 35
(明治35年)
(明治35年)
Korean calendar 4235
Thai solar calendar 2445
[edit] January-February
January 1 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977) January 2 - Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007) January 9 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997) January 9 - JosemarÃa Escrivá, Spanish priest (d. 1975) January 11 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986) January 12 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969) January 16 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945) January 20 - Kevin Barry, Irish republican (d. 1920) January 22 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970) January 24 - E. A. Speiser, American biblical scholar (d. 1965) January 25 - André Beaufre, French general (d. 1975) January 25 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975) January 26 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940) January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968) January 31 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1986) February 1 - Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967) February 4 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974) February 4 - Hartley Shawcross, British barrister and politician (d. 2003) February 5 - Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go player (d. 1999) February 6 - George Brunies, American jazz trombonist (d. 1974) February 8 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966) February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) February 11 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (d. 1971) February 19 - Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992) February 19 - Eddie Peabody, American musician (d. 1970) February 20 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984) February 26 - Albert Anastasia, American gangster (d. 1957) February 27 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999) February 27 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
[edit] March-April
March 4 - Red Reeder, American soldier and author (d. 1998) March 7 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994) March 9 - Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978) March 16 - Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943) March 17 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971) March 21 - Son House, American musician (d. 1988) March 24 - Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971) March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984) March 29 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983) March 29 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967) March 30 - Brooke Astor, American socialite and philanthropist (d. 2007) April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d. 1969) April 4 - Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (d. 1935) April 8 - Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer (d. 1924) April 12 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977) April 23 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) April 25 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964) April 30 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
[edit] May-June
May 3 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) May 6 - Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957) May 6 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981) May 8 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994) May 10 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974) May 10 - David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965) May 15 - Richard J. Daley, American politician (d. 1976) May 18 - Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984) May 21 - Earl Averill, American baseball player (d. 1983) May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981) May 22 - Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956) June 18 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1992) June 26 - Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor June 28 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
[edit] July-August
July 4 - George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and politician (d. 1992) July 4 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983) July 8 - Gwendolyn Bennett, American writer (d. 1981) July 10 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) July 28 - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994) July 28 - Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (d. 1959) August 2 - Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (d. 1971) August 4 - Clara Peller, American actress (d. 1987) August 8 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) August 9 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991) August 10 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983) August 10 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986) August 18 - Adamson-Eric, Estonian artist (d. 1968) August 19 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971) August 19 - J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994) August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003) August 24 - Carlo Gambino, American gangster (d. 1976) August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)
[edit] September-October
September 12 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d. 1976) September 14 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer, composer, and lyricist (d. 1977) September 21 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963) September 22 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (d. 1988) September 24 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shia cleric (d. 1989) October 5 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975) October 5 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984) October 13 - Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973) October 18 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972) October 18 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980) October 25 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
[edit] November-December
November - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (d. 1973) November 1 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987) November 2 - Princess Mafalda of Savoy (d. 1944) November 9 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968) November 17 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) November 21 - Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (d. 1982) November 23 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982) December 2 - Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982) December 5 - Strom Thurmond, American politician (d. 2003) December 9 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985) December 20 - Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942) December 23 - Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990) December 28 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001) December 28 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January - June
January 11 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862) February 15 - Viggo Hørup, Danish politician (b. 1841) February 27 - Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Australian soldier (b. 1864) February 27 - Peter Handcock, Australian soldier (b. 1869) March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853) April 2 - Esther Hobart Morris, American suffragist judge (b. 1814) April 15 - Jules Dalou, French sculptor (b. 1838) April 21 - Ethna Carbery, Irish poet (b. 1866) May 6 - Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836) May 26 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
Contents
1 Events of 1902
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 October 1.10 November 1.11 December
2 Ongoing 3 Births
3.1 January-February 3.2 March-April 3.3 May-June 3.4 July-August 3.5 September-October 3.6 November-December
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes 6 Notes 7 External linksJune 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845) June 10 - Auguste Schmidt, German educator and activist (b. 1833) June 18 - Samuel Butler, British author (b. 1835)
[edit] July - December
July 4 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian religious leader (b. 1863) July 6 - Maria Goretti, Italian Catholic saint (b. 1890) August 8 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836) September 5 - Rudolf Virchow, German scientist and politician (b. 1821) September 6 - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827) September 29 - Emile Zola, French author (b. 1840) October 26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (b. 1815) November 4 - Hale Johnson, American politician (b. 1847) November 17 - Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh social reformer (b. 1847) December 3 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833) December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840) December 23 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
[edit] Nobel Prizes
Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer Medicine - Ronald Ross Literature - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen Peace - Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat
[edit] Notes
^ "Calendar in year 1902 (Russia)" (Julian on Tuesday), webpage: Julian-1902 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
[edit] External links
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