1902

Years: 1899 1900 1901 - 1902 - 1903 1904 1905
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1902 in art 1902 in film 1902 in literature 1902 in music 1902 in science 1902 in sports 1902 in Canada List of state leaders in 1902 List of religious leaders in 1902 List of international organization leaders in 1902

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Unknown date
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes

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.
February 15 – Berlin underground opened
March 1 - Rear Admiral Frank F. Wildes takes command of the USS Kentucky (BB-6)
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 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 Rosebury opens London School of Economics
May 31 - Peace of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War
June 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring 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 from the post of British prime minister after almost 14 years
July 11 - Order of the Garter conferred on Archduke Ferdinand
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.

Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud begin to expand what becomes Saudi Arabia
Roland Molineux, The Knickerbocker Murderer, is acquitted
US president Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act

Unknown date

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

Births

January 6 - Max Güde, attorney (d. 1984)
January 9 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei.
January 16 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner
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 - 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
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 13 Philippe de Rothschild, vineyard operator (d. 1988)
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)
November 2 - Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy, (d. 1944)
November 9 - Anthony Asquith British film director, (d. 1968)
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