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

  "Calendar in year 1902 (Russia)" (Julian on Tuesday), webpage:
  Julian-1902
  (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).

of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

Contents:
Events of 1902 -  Jan. . Feb. . March . April -  May . June . July  .  Aug. -  Sept. . Oct. . Nov. .  Dec. -  Undated . Ongoing . Births Deaths Nobel Prizes See also -  Notes -  External links

Events of 1902

January

January 1: first Rose Bowl college American football game.

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• 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 occurs in the New York Central Railroad\'s Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
• January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.

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 8: Mount Pelée erupts.

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 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 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
  • Retirement of Lord Salisbury as British prime minister.
  • 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 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

1902 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1902 MCMII
Ab urbe condita	2655
Armenian calendar	1351 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԱ
Bahá\'í calendar	58 – 59
Berber calendar	2852
Buddhist calendar	2446
Burmese calendar	1264
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)
Coptic calendar	1618 – 1619
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)
Korean calendar	4235
Thai solar calendar	2445
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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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (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)
  • 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)
  • John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

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
  • William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
  • 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, 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
• June 26 - Hugues Cuénod, Swiss Tenor
• June 28 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)

July-August

• July 4
  • George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and US Senator from California (d. 1992)
  • Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983)
• July 8 - Gwendolyn Bennett
• July 10 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• July 28
  • Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
  • 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)
  • 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 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
  • Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
  • 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)
  • Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
• 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
  • Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)
  • Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)

Deaths

January - June

• January 11 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
• February 15 - Viggo Hørup, Danish politician (b. 1841)
• February 27 - Breaker Morant, soldier (b. 1864) (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)

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 2 Undated 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 4.1 January - June 4.2 July - December 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Notes 7 External links

• June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
• June 10 - Auguste Schmidt, German educator and womens\' 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 Gobat

Notes

External links

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