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1902

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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s  1880s  1890s  - 1900s -  1910s  1920s  1930s

Years: 1899 1900 1901 - 1902 - 1903 1904 1905
1902 by topic:
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Architecture - Art - Film - Literature
Music (Country ) - Television
Science and technology
Archaeology - Aviation
Meteorology - Rail transport - Science
By country
Australia - Canada - India
Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Singapore - South Africa - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe
Other topics
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Birth and death categories
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Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
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1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

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 September
    • 1.10 October
    • 1.11 November
    • 1.12 December
    • 1.13 Undated
    • 1.14 Ongoing
  • 2 Births
    • 2.1 January-February
    • 2.2 March-April
    • 2.3 May-June
    • 2.4 July-August
    • 2.5 September-October
    • 2.6 November-December
    • 2.7 Unknown dates
  • 3 Deaths
    • 3.1 January - June
    • 3.2 July - December
    • 3.3 Unknown dates
  • 4 Nobel prizes

Events of 1902

January

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January 1: first Rose Bowl college football game.
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Carnegie
  •  January 1 - The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.
  • January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • January - In France, Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.

February

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March 4: AAA is founded.
  • 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.
  • February 20 - American photographer Ansel Easton Adams, who was famous for his black and white photographs of California's Yosemite Valley, was born.

March

  • March 4 - The American Automobile Association (AAA) is founded.
  • 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 disallows 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.
  • The Irish National Theatre Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge and George Russell.

May

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May 8: Mount Pelée erupts.
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May 15: Lyman Gilmore plane.
  • 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 28,000 people, with only two survivors.
  • 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 17 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism.
  • May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States.
  • 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) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
  • June 26 - Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit.

July

  • July 10 - Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA, kills 112 miners.
  • July 11 - Retirement of Lord Salisbury as British prime minister.
  • July 11 - Order of the Garter conferred on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
  • July 14 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses.
  • July 23 - Excelsior Rotterdam was founded.

August

  • 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 31 - Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S.

Undated

  • (none)

Ongoing

  • (none)

Births

1902 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1902
MCMII
Ab urbe condita 2655
Armenian calendar 1351
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԱ
Bahá'í calendar 58 – 59
Buddhist calendar 2446
Chinese calendar 4538/4598-11-22
(辛丑年十一月廿二日)
— to —
4539/4599-12-2
(壬寅年十二月初二日)
Ethiopian calendar 1894 – 1895
Hebrew calendar 5662 – 5663
Hindu calendars
 - 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)

 - Imperial Year Kōki 2562
(皇紀2562年)
 - Jōmon Era 11902
Julian calendar 1947
Korean calendar 4235
Thai solar calendar 2445
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January-February

  • January 1 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
  • January 9 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
  • January 9 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (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 Bible scholar (d. 1965)
  • January 25 - André Beaufre, French general (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 prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (d. 2003)
  • 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)

March-April

  • 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
  • April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d. 1969)
  • 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 - 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, Hollywood film producer (d. 1965)
  • May 15 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
  • May 18 - Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984)
  • May 21 - Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
  • May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
  • 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)

July-August

  • July 4 - George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and US Senator from California (d. 1992)
  • July 4 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983)
  • 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 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 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 - 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)

November-December

  • 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 24 - Thaddius Q. McGriffin, Just another asian persuasion (Griffin Carpenter's, the American serial killer, only known blood relative) (d. 2008)
  • December 28 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)
  • December 28 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)

Unknown dates

  • Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (d. 1973)

Deaths

(See 1902 list of deaths by name: Category:1902 deaths.)

January - June

  • January 11 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
  • November 17 - Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (b. 1847)
  • March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853)
  • April 2 - Esther Morris, suffragist and the first American woman judge (b. 1814)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)

Unknown dates

  • Ethna Carbery, Irish poet (b. 1866)
  • Hale Johnson, American politician (b. 1847)

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

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