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  • 1902_in_film
  • 1902_in_literature
  • 1902_in_music
  • 1902_in_science
  • 1902_in_sports

    Events

  • 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.
  • March_10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas_Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
  • March 10 - 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_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_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.
  • 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 Güde, attorney (d. 1984)
  • January_9 - Josemaría_Escrivá, 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_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
  • 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 Rühmann, 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 Aymé, narrator and dramatist, humorist and satirist (d. 1967)
  • March_30 – Brooke_Astor, New York City socialite and philanthropist
  • April_4 - Louise_Leveque_de_Vilmorin, actress (d. 1969)
  • April_23 - Halldór_Laxness, author (d. 1998)
  • May_6 - Max_Ophüls, 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 - 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_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 - Élie_Ducommun, Charles_Albert_Gobat

    Heads of State

  • China - Guāngxù Emperor_of_China, Qing_Dynasty (1875-1908)
  • Denmark - Christian IX, King_of_Denmark (1863-1906)
  • France - Émile_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)
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