See:
Wikipedia.
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 - 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 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
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 -
Nico Wilhelm (Nico) Flikweert.
January 9 -
Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei.
January 11 -
Floris van den Houten.
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 3 -
Maatje Cornelia Padmos.
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 12 -
Leendert Kleijn.
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 7 -
Aphalona (Apolonia) van den Houten.
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).
June 17 -
Elizabeth van den Houten.
July 4 -
George Murphy, dancer, actor, Senator from California (d. 1992).
July 4 -
Meyer Lansky, mobster (d. 1983).
July 22 -
Adriaantje van der Groef.
July 25 -
Cornelis Albert Maarten van den Houten.
July 26 -
Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne.
July 27 -
Philippus Geenjaar.
July 28 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
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 7 -
Johanna Maria van Brussel.
September 8 -
Johanna van den Houten.
September 22 -
John Houseman, actor and producer (d. 1988).
October 3 -
Jannetje (Jans) van Heest.
October 5 -
Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corporation.
October 25 -
Eddie Lang, jazz musician (d. 1933).
October 28 -
Petronella Johanna Kappers.
November 2 -
Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy, (d. 1944).
November 4 -
Pieter van den Houten.
November 4 -
Willem van den Houten.
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 24 -
Klaasje van den Houten.
Deaths:
January 31 -
Johanna Dina Barbier.
February 12 -
Maatje Cornelia Padmos.
February 13 -
Johanna van Zuijen.
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 6 -
Hermanus van Dorp.
October 26 -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's rights activist.
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Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet.
December 22 -
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, sexologist.
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