1902

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).

Contents

Events of 1902

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Births

January-February

March-April

May-June

July-August

September-October

November-December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Unknown dates

Nobel prizes

Notes

External links

Table of contents

Events of 1902

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 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.

★ 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 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 19 - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocks Guatemala, 2,000 people die.

★ 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 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) 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

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★ Retirement of Lord Salisbury as British prime minister.

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★ 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.

Births

January-February

★ January 1 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)

★ January 9

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★ Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)

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★ 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

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★ Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)

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★ 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

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★ Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974)

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★ 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

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★ Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992)

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★ Eddie Peabody, American musician (d. 1970)

★ February 20 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)

★ February 26 - Albert Anastasia, American gangster (d. 1957)

★ February 27

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★ Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)

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★ 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

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★ William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)

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★ 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

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★ Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)

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★ 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

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★ Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974)

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★ 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

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★ Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)

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★ 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 28 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)

July-August

★ July 4

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★ George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and US Senator from California (d. 1992)

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★ Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983)

★ July 10 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

★ July 28

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★ Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)

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★ 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

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★ Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)

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★ 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

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★ Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)

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★ Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)

★ October 13 - Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)

★ October 18

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★ Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)

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★ 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

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★ Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)

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★ Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)

Deaths

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

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)

★ 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)

★ 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)

Unknown dates

★ 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

Notes

1.
"Calendar in year 1902 (Russia)" (Julian on Tuesday), webpage:
Julian-1902
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).

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