1902

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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Table of contents

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

Events

\n* January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.\n* France, Loisy's L'évangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis\n* February 11 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.\n* February 15 – Berlin underground opened\n* March 1 - Rear Admiral Frank F. Wildes takes command of the USS Kentucky (BB-6)\n* March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.\n* 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.\n* March 31 - Disputed first powered heavier-than-air flight; most date it 1903 if at all\n* April 2 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.\n* 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.\n* May 13 - Alfonso XIII of Spain formally begins his reign\n* 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).\n* May 17 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism\n* May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States\n* May 29 - Lord Rosebury opens London School of Economics\n* May 31 - Peace of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War\n* June 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.\n* June 26 - Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit\n* July 11 - Retirement of Lord Salisbury from the post of British prime minister after almost 14 years\n* July 11 - Order of the Garter conferred on Archduke Ferdinand\n* August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.\n* September 3 - Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.\n* October 21 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.\n* 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. \n* Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud begin to expand what becomes Saudi Arabia\n* Roland Molineux, The Knickerbocker Murderer, is acquitted\n* US president Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act

Unknown date

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

Births

\n* January 6 - Max Güde, attorney (d. 1984)\n* January 9 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei.\n* January 16 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner\n* January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1963)\n* January 22 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler\n* January 31 - Alva Myrdal, politician (d. 1986)\n* January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress (d. 1968)\n* February 1 - Langston Hughes, writer (d. 1967)\n* February 4 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974)\n* February 6 - George Brunies, jazz musician (d. 1974)\n* February 8 - Lyle Talbot, actor (d. 1996)\n* February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956\n* February 11 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect/designer\n* February 20 - Ansel Adams, photographer (d. 1984)\n* February 27 - John Steinbeck American writer\n* February 27 - Gene Sarazen, golfer\n* March 7 - Heinz Rühmann, actor (d. 1994)\n* March 9 - Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, wife of Philippe de Rothschild (d. 1945)\n* March 9 - Will Geer, actor (d. 1978)\n* March 16 - Leon Roppolo, jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)\n* March 17 - Bobby Jones, golfer (d. 1971)\n* March 21 - Son House, blues musician\n* March 24 - Thomas Dewey, politician (d. 1971)\n* March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, actress (d. 1984)\n* March 29 - William Walton, composer\n* March 29 - Marcel Aymé, narrator and dramatist, humorist and satirist (d. 1967)\n* March 30  Brooke Astor, New York City socialite and philanthropist\n* April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, actress (d. 1969)\n* April 13  Philippe de Rothschild, vineyard operator (d. 1988)\n* April 23 - Halldór Laxness, author (d. 1998)\n* May 6 - Max Ophüls, director (d. 1957)\n* May 10 - Anatole Litvak, film director (d. 1974)\n* May 10 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (d. 1965)\n* May 15 - Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago, Illinois (d. 1976)\n* May 18 - Meredith Willson, composer (d. 1984)\n* May 21 - Earl Averill, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1983)\n* May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, architect (d. 1981)\n* May 22 - Al Simmons, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1956)\n* July 4 - George Murphy, dancer, actor, Senator from California (d. 1992)\n* July 4 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (d. 1983)\n* July 26 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne\n* August 8 - Paul Dirac, physicist\n* August 10 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress (d. 1983)\n* August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist\n* August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet\n* August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)\n* August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)\n* September 22 - John Houseman, actor and producer (d. 1988)\n* October 5 - Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corporation\n* October 25 - Eddie Lang, jazz musician (d. 1933)\n* November 2 - Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy, (d. 1944)\n* November 9 - Anthony Asquith British film director, (d. 1968)\n* December 2 - Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982)\n* December 5 - Strom Thurmond, United States senator (d. 2003)\n* December 20 - Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942).

Deaths

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

Nobel Prizes

\n* Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman\n* Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer\n* Medicine - Ronald Ross\n* Literature - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen\n* Peace - Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsimple:1902\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n