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Everything about 1902 totally explainedYear 1902 ( MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday
of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1902
January
February
February 11 - Police physically abuse universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
February 15 - Berlin U-Bahn underground is opened.
February 18 - US President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.
March
March 4 - The American Automobile Association (AAA) is founded.
March 6 - Real Madrid is founded as "FC Madrid".
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 - Circuit Court's decision Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
March 31 - Disputed first powered heavier-than-air flight; most date it to year 1903, if at all.
April
April 2 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
April 11 - Enrico Caruso made the first ten of his 496 recordings, in Milan under the supervision of Frederick William Gaisberg, recording engineer for the Gramophone and Typewriter, Ltd..
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, 2,000 people die.
April 26 - Hibernian Football Club (Edinburgh) Win The Scottish Cup, defeating Glasgow Celtic F.C. 1-0 At Parkhead (Glasgow). The Hibernian Team That Day Was (Harry Rennie, Archie Gray, Bobby Glen, Barney Breslin, Jimmy Harrower, Alex Robertson, Johnny McCall, Andy McGeachan, Johnny Divers, Paddy Callaghan, Bobby Atherton).Andy McGeachan scored the winning goal.
April 28 - Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1, Year Zero occurred at 10:40 AM on this date.
The Irish National Theatre Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge and George Russell.
May
May 5 - Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service.
May 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroys the town of Saint-Pierre, and kills over 30,000 people. Only a small handful of St. Pierre's residents survived the blast.
May 13 - Alfonso XIII of Spain formally begins his reign.
May 15 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).
May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States.
May 24 - The town of Gore, Oklahoma was established.
May 29 - Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics.
May 31 - Treaty of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War.
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.
July
July 10 - Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA, kills 112 miners.
July 11
July 14 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses.
July 23 - Excelsior Rotterdam was founded.
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 became the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rode in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
August 24 - Hereford & District Skittle league formed in England
September
September 3 - Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.
October
October 21 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
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.
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.
Undated
The University of Kentucky Women's Basketball Team is organized.
Births
January-February
January 1 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
January 2 - Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007)
January 9
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 Bible scholar (d. 1965)
January 25
January 26 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
January 31
February 1 - Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967)
February 4
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
February 20 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
February 26 - Albert Anastasia, American gangster (d. 1957)
February 27
March-April
March 4 - Red Reeder, U.S. Army officer 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
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, disappeared on Mount Everest (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)
May-June
May 3 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
May 6
May 8 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
May 10
May 15 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
May 18 - Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984)
May 21
May 22 - Al Simmons, 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)
July-August
July 4
July 8 - Gwendolyn Bennett
July 10 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
July 28
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
August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
August 18 - Adamson-Eric, Estonian artist (d. 1968)
August 19
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)
September-October
September 12 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
September 14 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country 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)
September 29 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
October 5
October 13 - Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)
October 18
October 25 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
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 and Politburo member (d. 1982)
November 23 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
December 2 - Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982)
December 5 - Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (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
Deaths
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) (executed)
February 27 - Peter Handcock, Australian soldier (b. 1869) (executed)
March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853)
April 2 - Esther Hobart Morris, suffragist and the first American woman judge (b. 1814)
April 15 - Jules Dalou, 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)
June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
June 10 - Auguste Schmidt, German educator and women's rights activist (b. 1833)
June 18 - Samuel Butler, British author (b. 1835)
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 doctor, pathologist, biologist, 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 women's rights activist (b. 1815)
November 4 - Hale Johnson, American politician (b. 1847) (murdered)
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)
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 GobatFurther Information
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