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).
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
★
★ 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 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
★
★
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 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 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 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 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
::''(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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