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1902 Historical Event(s)
January 28, 1902
– The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
February 8, 1902
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
February 27, 1902
– Second Boer War: Harry ‘Breaker’Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
April 2, 1902
– “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
April 18, 1902
– Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
June 24, 1902
– King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
August 22, 1902
– Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
August 24, 1902
– A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
December 14, 1902
– The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Who Were Born On 1902?
March 16, 1902
– Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)
March 29, 1902
– William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
July 20, 1902
– Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
August 8, 1902
– Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
August 9, 1902
– Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
August 10, 1902
– Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
September 22, 1902
– John Houseman, Romanian-born actor (d. 1988)
September 23, 1902
– Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
September 29, 1902
– Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
October 14, 1902
– Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)