
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1899 1900 1901 - 1902 - 1903 1904 1905 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ==Events== ===January-April=== * January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. * France, Alfred 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 U-Bahn opened. * February 18 - US President Theodore Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act. * March 7 - Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over United Kingdom forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men. * March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on film technology. * 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. * The Irish National Theatre Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge and George Russell. ===May-August=== * May 5 - Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service * 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 - Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery opens London School of Economics * May 31 - Peace of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War * June 2 - The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States. * June 15 - The New York Central railroad inaugurates the ''20th Century Limited'' passenger train between Chicago and New York City. * June 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act. * June 26 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom institutes The Order of Merit. * July 10 - Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA, kills 112 miners. * July 11 - Retirement of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury as British Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * July 11 - Order of the Garter conferred on Archduke Ferdinand. * July 14 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses. * July 23 - Excelsior Rotterdam was founded. * August 9 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is crowned King of the United Kingdom. * August 22 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile when he rode in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut. ===September-December=== * 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 action 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. * December 31 - Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S ==Births== ===January-February=== * January 6 - Max Gude, attorney (d. 1984) * January 9 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997) * January 9 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975) * January 11 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986) * January 16 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945) * January 22 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970) * January 24 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965) * January 31 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1986) * January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968) * February 1 - Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967) * February 4 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974) * February 6 - George Brunies, American jazz trombonist (d. 1974) * February 8 - Lyle Talbot, actor (d. 1996) * February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1987) * February 11 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (d. 1971) * February 20 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984) * February 27 - John Steinbeck American writer (d. 1968) * February 27 - Gene Sarazen, golfer (d. 1999) ===March-April=== * March 7 - Heinz Ruhmann, actor (d. 1994) * March 9 - Elisabeth de Rothschild, wife of Philippe de Rothschild (d. 1945) * March 9 - Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978) * March 16 - Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943) * March 17 - Bobby Jones (golf), American golfer (d. 1971) * March 21 - Son House, American blues musician (d. 1988) * March 24 - Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971) * March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984) * March 29 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983) * March 29 - Marcel Ayme, French writer (d. 1967) * April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d. 1969) * April 12 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977) * April 23 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author (d. 1998) * April 25 - Werner Heyde, German military psychiatrist ===May-October=== * May 6 - Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957) * May 6 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981) * May 10 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974) * May 10 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (d. 1965) * May 15 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976) * May 18 - Meredith Willson, American 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, American dancer, actor, Senator from California (d. 1992) * July 4 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983) * July 10 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) * July 28 - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994) * July 26 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (d. 1964) * August 8 - Paul Dirac, English physicist (d. 1984) * August 9 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991) * August 10 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award-winning Canadian actress (d. 1983) * August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986) * August 19 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971) * August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003) * August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972) * September 21 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963) * September 22 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (d. 1988) * September 24 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shia cleric (d. 1989) * October 5 - Larry Fine (actor), American actor and comedian, original member of The Three Stooges * October 5 - Ray Kroc, American founder of McDonald's Corporation * October 25 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933) ===November-December=== * November 1 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987) * November 2 - Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy, (d. 1944) * November 9 - Anthony Asquith British film director, (d. 1968) * November 23 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982) * 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 28 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001) ==Deaths== *January 11 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862) *March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853) *April 2 - Esther Hobart Morris, suffragist and the first American woman judge (b. 1814) *May 6 - Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836) *May 26 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839) *June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845) *June 18 - Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author (b. 1835) *July 4 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian religious leader (b. 1863) *July 6 - Maria Goretti, Italian Roman Catholic saint (b. 1890) *August 8 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836) *September 5 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (b. 1821) *September 6 - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827) *September 29 - Emile Zola, French author (b. 1840) *October 26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (b. 1815) *December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840) *Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821) ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Ronald Ross * Nobel Prize in literature - Theodor Mommsen * Nobel Prize/Peace - Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat 1902 la:1902 os:1902 se:1902 sq:1902 scn:1902 simple:1902
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1899 1900 1901 - 1902 - 1903 1904 1905 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ==Events== ===January-April=== * January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. * France, Alfred 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 U-Bahn opened. * February 18 - US President Theodore Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act. * March 7 - Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over United Kingdom forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men. * March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on film technology. * 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. * The Irish National Theatre Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge and George Russell. ===May-August=== * May 5 - Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service * 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 - Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery opens London School of Economics * May 31 - Peace of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War * June 2 - The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States. * June 15 - The New York Central railroad inaugurates the ''20th Century Limited'' passenger train between Chicago and New York City. * June 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act. * June 26 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom institutes The Order of Merit. * July 10 - Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA, kills 112 miners. * July 11 - Retirement of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury as British Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * July 11 - Order of the Garter conferred on Archduke Ferdinand. * July 14 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses. * July 23 - Excelsior Rotterdam was founded. * August 9 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is crowned King of the United Kingdom. * August 22 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile when he rode in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut. ===September-December=== * 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 action 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. * December 31 - Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S ==Births== ===January-February=== * January 6 - Max Gude, attorney (d. 1984) * January 9 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997) * January 9 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975) * January 11 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986) * January 16 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945) * January 22 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970) * January 24 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965) * January 31 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1986) * January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968) * February 1 - Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967) * February 4 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974) * February 6 - George Brunies, American jazz trombonist (d. 1974) * February 8 - Lyle Talbot, actor (d. 1996) * February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1987) * February 11 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (d. 1971) * February 20 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984) * February 27 - John Steinbeck American writer (d. 1968) * February 27 - Gene Sarazen, golfer (d. 1999) ===March-April=== * March 7 - Heinz Ruhmann, actor (d. 1994) * March 9 - Elisabeth de Rothschild, wife of Philippe de Rothschild (d. 1945) * March 9 - Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978) * March 16 - Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943) * March 17 - Bobby Jones (golf), American golfer (d. 1971) * March 21 - Son House, American blues musician (d. 1988) * March 24 - Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971) * March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984) * March 29 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983) * March 29 - Marcel Ayme, French writer (d. 1967) * April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d. 1969) * April 12 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977) * April 23 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author (d. 1998) * April 25 - Werner Heyde, German military psychiatrist ===May-October=== * May 6 - Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957) * May 6 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981) * May 10 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974) * May 10 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (d. 1965) * May 15 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976) * May 18 - Meredith Willson, American 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, American dancer, actor, Senator from California (d. 1992) * July 4 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983) * July 10 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) * July 28 - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994) * July 26 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (d. 1964) * August 8 - Paul Dirac, English physicist (d. 1984) * August 9 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991) * August 10 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award-winning Canadian actress (d. 1983) * August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986) * August 19 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971) * August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003) * August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972) * September 21 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963) * September 22 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (d. 1988) * September 24 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shia cleric (d. 1989) * October 5 - Larry Fine (actor), American actor and comedian, original member of The Three Stooges * October 5 - Ray Kroc, American founder of McDonald's Corporation * October 25 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933) ===November-December=== * November 1 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987) * November 2 - Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy, (d. 1944) * November 9 - Anthony Asquith British film director, (d. 1968) * November 23 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982) * 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 28 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001) ==Deaths== *January 11 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862) *March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853) *April 2 - Esther Hobart Morris, suffragist and the first American woman judge (b. 1814) *May 6 - Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836) *May 26 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839) *June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845) *June 18 - Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author (b. 1835) *July 4 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian religious leader (b. 1863) *July 6 - Maria Goretti, Italian Roman Catholic saint (b. 1890) *August 8 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836) *September 5 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (b. 1821) *September 6 - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827) *September 29 - Emile Zola, French author (b. 1840) *October 26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (b. 1815) *December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840) *Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821) ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Ronald Ross * Nobel Prize in literature - Theodor Mommsen * Nobel Prize/Peace - Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat 1902 la:1902 os:1902 se:1902 sq:1902 scn:1902 simple:1902
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The year in topic layout on this page is one of three versions. I seek opinions before making them all the same; see comment on my talk page User:BozMoUser Talk:BozMo "The catholic church friendly took over-hand in Nauru and then became Nauru's main religion." is this sentence supposed to make any sense? -User:R. fiend 20:09, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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