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1902 (
MCMII) was a
common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April
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January 1 - The first
college football bowl game, the
Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in
Pasadena.
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January 28 - The
Carnegie Institution is founded in
Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from
Andrew Carnegie.
*
France,
Loisy's
L'évangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the
Modernist Crisis*
February 11 - Police physically abuse
universal suffrage demonstrators in
Brussels.
*
February 15 -
Berlin underground opened.
*
February 18 - US President
Roosevelt prosecutes the
Northern Securities Company for violation of the
Sherman Act.
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March 4 - The American Automobile Association (AAA) was founded.
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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 1903 if at all
*
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-August
*
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 thousands of people. Out of the whole 28,000 people who were killed there were 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 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.
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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.
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July 14 -
St Mark's Campanile in
Venice collapses.
*
July 23 -
Excelsior Rotterdam was founded.
*
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.
September-December
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September 3 - Popular author
Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.
*
October 21 - In the
United States, a five month
strike by
United Mine Workers ends.
*
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 31 -
Scott,
Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S
Births
January-March
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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 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)
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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-June
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April 4 -
Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d.
1969)
*
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 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)
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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)
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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-September
*
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)
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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)
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August 22 -
Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d.
2003)
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August 24 -
Carlo Gambino, American Gangster (d.
1976)
*
August 25 -
Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d.
1972)
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September 12 -
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira,
President of Brazil (d.
1976)
*
September 21 -
Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d.
1963)
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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-December
*
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 -
Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d.
1980)
*
October 25 -
Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d.
1933)
*
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 23 -
Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d.
1982)
*
December 2 -
Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist (d.
1982)
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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 28 -
Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d.
2001)
*
December 28 -
Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d.
1988)
Date unknown
*
Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (d.
1973)
Deaths
*
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)
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May 6 -
Bret Harte, American writer (b.
1836)
*
May 26 -
Almon Strowger, American inventor (b.
1839)
*
June 10 -
Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b.
1845)
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June 18 -
Samuel Butler, British author (b.
1835)
*
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)
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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)
Date unknown
*
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,
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