1902
1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April 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 beat up 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. March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology. March 10 - 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 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 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroys the town of St. 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 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 - Peace 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. 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. July 11 - Retirement of Lord Salisbury as British prime minister. July 11 - Order of the Garter conferred on Archduke Ferdinand. July 14 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses. 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 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. December 31 - Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S
BirthsJanuary-February January 6 - Max Güde, attorney (d. 1984) January 9 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager (d. 1997) January 9 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975) January 16 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945) January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1963) January 22 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970) January 31 - Alva Myrdal, politician (d. 1986) January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress (d. 1968) February 1 - Langston Hughes, writer (d. 1967) February 4 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974) February 6 - George Brunies, jazz musician (d. 1974) February 8 - Lyle Talbot, actor (d. 1996) February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 (d. 1987) February 11 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect/designer (d. 1971) February 20 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984) February 27 - John Steinbeck American writer (d. 1968) February 27 - Gene Sarazen, golfer (d. 1999)
March-April March 7 - Heinz Rühmann, actor (d. 1994) March 9 - Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, wife of Philippe de Rothschild (d. 1945) March 9 - Will Geer, actor (d. 1978) March 16 - Leon Roppolo, jazz clarinetist (d. 1943) March 17 - Bobby Jones, golfer (d. 1971) March 21 - Son House, blues musician (d. 1988) March 24 - Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971) March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, actress (d. 1984) March 29 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983) March 29 - Marcel Aymé, French narrator and dramatist, humorist and satirist (d. 1967) 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 author (d. 1998)
May-October May 6 - Max Ophüls, director (d. 1957) May 6 - Harry Golden, U.S journalist (d. 1981) May 10 - Anatole Litvak, film director (d. 1974) May 10 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (d. 1965) May 15 - Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago (d. 1976) May 18 - Meredith Willson, composer (d. 1984) May 21 - Earl Averill, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1983) May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, architect (d. 1981) May 22 - Al Simmons, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1956) July 4 - George Murphy, dancer, actor, Senator from California (d. 1992) July 4 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (d. 1983) July 28 - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994) July 26 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne (d. 1964) August 8 - Paul Dirac, English physicist (d. 1984) August 9 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991) August 10 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress (d. 1983) August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986) August 19 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971) August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003) August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972) September 21 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963) September 22 - John Houseman, actor and producer (d. 1988) October 5 - Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corporation October 25 - Eddie Lang, jazz musician (d. 1933)
November-December November 1 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987) November 2 - Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy, (d. 1944) November 9 - Anthony Asquith British film director, (d. 1968) November 23 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982) December 2 - Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982) December 5 - Strom Thurmond, United States senator (d. 2003) December 20 - Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942) December 28 - Mortimer Adler, American Philosopher (d. 2001)
DeathsJanuary 11 - Johnny Briggs, Lancashire left arm slow bowler and useful batsman (b. 1862)March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853)May 26 - Almon Strowger, inventor of the Strowger switch (b. 1839)June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)June 18 - Samuel Butler, British Author (b. 1835)July 4 - Swami Vivekananda (b. 1863)July 6 - Maria Goretti, Roman Catholic Virgin 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, women's rights activist (b. 1815)December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840)Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer Medicine - Ronald Ross Literature - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen Peace - Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat
|
|
