1902

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

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 - 1902 - 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Other events
3 Year in topic
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 Nobel Prizes
7 Heads of State

Events

January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
France, Loisy's L'ÃÂÃÂ©vangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis
February 11 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
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.
May 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pelee 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 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
August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
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.

Other events

The catholic church friendly took over-hand in Nauru and then became Nauru's main religion.

Year in topic

1902 in literature
1902 in music
1902 in sports
- January 1 - The first Rose Bowl game is played in Pasadena, California
- March 4 - In Chicago, Illinois, the American Automobile Association is established.
- December 28 - The first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden.

Births

January 6 - Max GÃÂÃÂ¼de, attorney (d. 1984)
January 9 - JosemarÃÂÃÂa EscrivÃÂÃÂ¡, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei.
January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1963)
January 22 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler
January 31 - Alva Mydral, 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
February 11 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect/designer
February 20 - Ansel Adams, photographer (d. 1984)
February 27 - John Steinbeck American writer
February 27 - Gene Sarazen, golfer
March 7 - Heinz RÃÂÃÂ¼hmann, actor (d. 1994)
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
March 24 - Thomas Dewey, politician (d. 1971)
March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, actress (d. 1984)
March 29 - William Walton, composer
March 29 - Marcel AymÃÂÃÂ©, narrator and dramatist, humorist and satirist (d. 1967)
March 30 ÃÂÃÂ Brooke Astor, New York City socialite and philanthropist
April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, actress (d. 1969)
April 23 - HalldÃÂÃÂ³r Laxness, author (d. 1998)
May 6 - Max OphÃÂÃÂ¼ls, director (d. 1957)
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, Illinois (d. 1976)
May 18 - Meredith Willson, composer (d. 1984)
May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, architect (d. 1981)
July 4 - George Murphy, dancer, actor, Senator from California (d. 1992)
July 4 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (d. 1983)
July 26 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne
August 8 - Paul Dirac, physicist
August 10 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress (d. 1983)
August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist
August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet
August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
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)
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).

Deaths

March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, imperialist
May 26 - Almon Strowger, developed the Strowger switch
July 4 - Swami Vivekananda
September 5 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician
September 29 - Emile Zola, French author
October 26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's rights activist
? -Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, sexologist

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer
Medicine - Ronald Ross
Literature - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
Peace - ÃÂÃÂlie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat

Heads of State

China - GuāngxÃÂÃÂ¹ Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
France - ÃÂÃÂmile Loubet, President of France (1899-1906)
Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
Holy See - Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji Emperor (1867-1912)
Norway - Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
Russia - Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
United States - Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States (1901-1909)