1902

Published on Friday, February 9th 2007. Edited by Foo Wasaddspa, Bålsta, Sweden.

Centuries: 19th century – 20th century – 21st century

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s

Years: 1899 1900 1901 – 1902 – 1903 1904 1905

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 of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1902

January

1 January: 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.
8 January – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad’s Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains.
25 January – A snowstorm at Mount Hakkoda, northern Honshu, Japan, kills 199 during a military training exercise.
28 January – The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.

February

11 February – Police and universal suffrage demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels.
15 February – The Berlin U-Bahn underground is opened.
18 February – US President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.

March

7 March – 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.
10 March – A Circuit Court prevents Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.

April

2 April – “Electric Theatre,” the first movie theatre in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
13 April – A new car speed record of 74mph is set in Nice, France, by Leon Serpollet.
19 April – A magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocks Guatemala, killing 2,000.

May

8 May: Mount Pelée erupts.

5 May – The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia’s Public Service.
8 May – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000.
13 May – Alfonso XIII of Spain begins his reign.
15 May – It is claimed that in a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore achieves flight in a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider). There is no surviving evidence to verify this claim.
20 May – Cuba gains independence from the United States.
29 May – Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics.
31 May – The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War.

15 May: Lyman Gilmore plane.

June

2 June – The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States.
15 June – The New York Central railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City, New York.
16 June – Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) win the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
17 June – Norwich City Football Club is formed
26 June – Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit.

July

10 July – The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA kills 112 miners.
11 July
Lord Salisbury retires as British prime minister.
The Order of the Garter is conferred on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
14 July – St Mark’s Campanile in Venice collapses.

August

1 August – 100 miners die in a pit explosion in Wollongong, Australia.
9 August – Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
22 August – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.

October

16 October – The first Borstal (youth offenders' institution) opens in Borstal, Kent, UK.
21 October – In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.

November

30 November – 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

10 December – The first Aswan Dam on The Nile is completed.
31 December – Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17’S.

Ongoing

Discovery Expedition (1901-1904)

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

Byzantine calendar 7410 – 7411

Chinese calendar 辛丑年十一月廿二日 (4538/4598-11-22)

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壬寅年十二月初二日 (4539/4599-12-2)

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)

Korean calendar 4235

Thai solar calendar 2445

January-February

1 January – Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
2 January – Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007)
9 January – Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
9 January – Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest (d. 1975)
11 January – Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986)
12 January – King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
16 January – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
20 January – Kevin Barry, Irish republican (d. 1920)
22 January – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
24 January – E. A. Speiser, American biblical scholar (d. 1965)
25 January – André Beaufre, French general (d. 1975)
25 January – Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
26 January – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
31 January – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
31 January – Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1986)
1 February – Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967)
4 February – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974)
4 February – Hartley Shawcross, British barrister and politician (d. 2003)
5 February – Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go player (d. 1999)
6 February – George Brunies, American jazz trombonist (d. 1974)
8 February – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
10 February – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
11 February – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (d. 1971)
19 February – Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992)
19 February – Eddie Peabody, American musician (d. 1970)
20 February – Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
26 February – Albert Anastasia, American gangster (d. 1957)
27 February – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
27 February – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

March-April

4 March – Red Reeder, American soldier and author (d. 1998)
7 March – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
9 March – Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
16 March – Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)
17 March – Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971)
21 March – Son House, American musician (d. 1988)
24 March – Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971)
28 March – Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
29 March – William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
29 March – Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
30 March – Brooke Astor, American socialite and philanthropist (d. 2007)
4 April – Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d. 1969)
4 April – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (d. 1935)
8 April – Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer (d. 1924)
12 April – Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
23 April – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
25 April – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
30 April – Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

May-June

3 May – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
6 May – Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)
6 May – Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
8 May – Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
10 May – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974)
10 May – David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)
15 May – Richard J. Daley, American politician (d. 1976)
18 May – Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984)
21 May – Earl Averill, American baseball player (d. 1983)
21 May – Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
22 May – Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956)
18 June – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1992)
26 June – Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor
28 June – Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)

July-August

4 July – George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and politician (d. 1992)
4 July – Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983)
8 July – Gwendolyn Bennett, American writer (d. 1981)
10 July – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
28 July – Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
28 July – Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (d. 1959)
2 August – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (d. 1971)
4 August – Clara Peller, American actress (d. 1987)
8 August – Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
9 August – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
10 August – Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
10 August – Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
11 August – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
18 August – Adamson-Eric, Estonian artist (d. 1968)
19 August – Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
19 August – J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
22 August – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
24 August – Carlo Gambino, American gangster (d. 1976)
25 August – Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)

September-October

12 September – Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
14 September – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer, composer, and lyricist (d. 1977)
21 September – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
22 September – John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (d. 1988)
24 September – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shia cleric (d. 1989)
5 October – Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
5 October – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
13 October – Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)
18 October – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
18 October – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
25 October – Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)

November-December

November – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (d. 1973)
1 November – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
2 November – Princess Mafalda of Savoy (d. 1944)
9 November – Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
17 November – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
21 November – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (d. 1982)
23 November – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
2 December – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982)
5 December – Strom Thurmond, American politician (d. 2003)
9 December – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
20 December – Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
23 December – Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
28 December – Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)
28 December – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)

Deaths

January – June

11 January – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
15 February – Viggo Hørup, Danish politician (b. 1841)
27 February – Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant, Australian soldier (b. 1864)
27 February – Peter Handcock, Australian soldier (b. 1869)
26 March – Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853)
2 April – Esther Hobart Morris, American suffragist judge (b. 1814)
15 April – Jules Dalou, French sculptor (b. 1838)
21 April – Ethna Carbery, Irish poet (b. 1866)
6 May – Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836)
26 May – Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)

10 June – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
10 June – Auguste Schmidt, German educator and activist (b. 1833)
18 June – Samuel Butler, British author (b. 1835)

July – December

4 July – Swami Vivekananda, Indian religious leader (b. 1863)
6 July – Maria Goretti, Italian Catholic saint (b. 1890)
8 August – James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
5 September – Rudolf Virchow, German scientist and politician (b. 1821)
6 September – Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827)
29 September – Emile Zola, French author (b. 1840)
26 October – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (b. 1815)
4 November – Hale Johnson, American politician (b. 1847)
17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh social reformer (b. 1847)
3 December – Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
22 December – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840)
23 December – 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

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