1902

Events

   * January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with
     a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
   * France, Loisy's L'Žvangile 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
   * August 9 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1902 in sports
        o January 1 - The first Rose Bowl game is played in Pasadena,
          California
        o March 4 - In Chicago, Illinois, the American Automobile
          Association is established.
        o December 28 - The first indoor professional American football game
          is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden.

Births

   * January 6 - Max GŸde, 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 RŸhmann, 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 AymŽ, narrator and dramatist, humorist and satirist
     (+ 1967)
   * April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, actress (+ 1969)
   * May 6 - Max OphŸls, 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
   * October 26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's rights activist
   * Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
   * Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer
   * Medicine - Ronald Ross
   * Literature - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
   * Peace - ƒlie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat