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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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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.
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

Art, Culture & Fashion

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 (+ 1984)
January 20 - Nazim Hikmet[?], lyricist and dramatist († 1963)
January 31 - Alva Mydral[?], politician (+ 1986)
January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress (+ 1968)
February 1 - Langston Hughes writer
February 4 - Charles Lindbergh American aviator
February 8 - Lyle Talbot[?], actor (+ 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 (+ 1984)
February 27 - John Steinbeck American writer
February 27 - Gene Sarazen, golfer
March 7 - Heinz Rühmann[?], actor (+ 1994)
March 9 - Will Geer[?], actor (+ 1978)
March 16 - Leon Roppolo, jazz clarinetist (+ 1943)
March 17 - Bobby Jones[?], golfer (+ 1971)
March 21 - Son House, blues musician
March 24 - Thomas Dewey, politician (+ 1971)
March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, actress (+ 1984)
March 29 - William Walton, composer
March 29 - Marcel Aymé[?], narrator and dramatist, humorist and satirist (+ 1967)
April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin[?], actress (+ 1969)
May 6 - Max Ophüls, director (+ 1957)
May 10 - Anatole Litvak[?], film director (+ 1974)
May 10 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (+ 1965)
May 15 - Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago, Illinois (+ 1976)
May 18 - Meredith Willson[?], composer (+ 1984)
May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer[?], architect (+ 1981)
July 4 - George Murphy[?], dancer, actor, Senator from California (+ 1992)
July 26 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne
August 8 - Paul Dirac, physicist
August 10 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress (+ 1983)
August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist
August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet
August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director
August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (+ 1972)
October 5 - Ray Kroc[?], founder of McDonald's Corporation

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
Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet

Nobel Prizes

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