1902 Calendar
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1902 Historical Event(s)
January 30, 1902
– The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
February 8, 1902
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
April 20, 1902
– Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 17, 1902
– Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
June 28, 1902
– The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
August 9, 1902
– Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
October 21, 1902
– In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
November 30, 1902
– American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
December 10, 1902
– Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
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?
January 25, 1902
– Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
March 30, 1902
– Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
April 2, 1902
– Jan Tschichold, German typographer (d. 1974)
July 25, 1902
– Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
August 10, 1902
– Curt Siodmak, German-born English novelist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
September 17, 1902
– Bea Miles, Australian eccentric and writer (d. 1973)
September 22, 1902
– Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (d. 1989)
November 21, 1902
– Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (d. 1985)