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'''1902''' '''(MCMII)''' 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, 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 underground opened.
* February_18 - US President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern_Securities_Company for violation of the Sherman_Act.
* March_7 - Boer_War: South_African Boers win their last battle over British 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 motion picture 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===
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* May_5 - Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service
* May_8 - In Martinique, Mount_Pelée erupts, destroys the town of Saint-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 - Lord Rosebery opens London_School_of_Economics
* May_31 - Treaty_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,_Illinois and New_York_City,_New_York.
* 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 institutes The Order_of_Merit.
* July_10 - Rolling_Mill_Mine disaster in Johnstown,_PA, kills 112 miners.
* July_11 - Retirement of Lord Salisbury as British prime minister.
* 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 is crowned King of the United_Kingdom.
* August_22 - Theodore_Roosevelt became the first American President 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 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 - Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S
==Births==
===January-February===
* January_1 - Buster_Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
* 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_12 - King Saud_of_Saudi_Arabia (d. 1969)
* 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_25 - André Beaufre, French general (d. 1975)
* January_26 - Menno_ter_Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
* January_31 - Tallulah_Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
* January_31 - Alva_Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (d. 1986)
* February_1 - Langston_Hughes, American writer (d. 1967)
* February_4 - Charles_Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974)
* February_4 - Hartley_Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (d. 2003)
* February_6 - George_Brunies, American jazz trombonist (d. 1974)
* February_8 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
* February_10 - Walter_Houser_Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
* February_11 - Arne_Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (d. 1971)
* February_19 - Kay_Boyle, American writer (d. 1992)
* February_19 - Eddie_Peabody, American musician (d.1970)
* February_20 - Ansel_Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
* February_27 - Gene_Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
* February_27 - John_Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
===March-April===
* March_7 - Heinz_Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
* March_9 - Will_Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
* March_16 - Leon_Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)
* March_17 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971)
* March_21 - Son_House, American 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 Aymé, 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 writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
* April_25 - Werner_Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
* April_30 - Theodore_Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
===May-October===
* May_2 - Milford_Page, New_Zealand Cricket Captains
[d. 1987)
* May_3 - Alfred_Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
* May_6 - Max_Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)
* May_6 - Harry_Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
*May_8 - Andre_Michael_Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (d. 1994)
* 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 player (d. 1983)
* May_21 - Marcel_Lajos_Breuer, architect (d. 1981)
* May_22 - Al_Simmons, baseball player (d. 1956)
*June_18 - Barbara_McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (d. 1992)
* 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, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
* August_9 - Zino_Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
* August_10 - Norma_Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
* August_10 - Arne_Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
* 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, American actor and comedian, Three_Stooges member (d. 1975)
* October_5 - Ray_Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
* October_25 - Eddie_Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
===November-December===
* November_1 - Eugen_Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
* November_2 - Princess Mafalda_Maria_Elisabetta_of_Savoy (d. 1944)
* November_9 - Anthony_Asquith British film director, (d. 1968)
* November_17 - Eugene_Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
* November_23 - Victor_Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
* December_2 - Wilfredo_Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982)
* December_5 - Strom_Thurmond, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
* December_9 - Margaret_Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
* 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 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, British author (b. 1835)
*July_4 - Swami_Vivekananda, Indian religious leader (b. 1863)
*July_6 - Maria_Goretti, Italian 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_3 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
*December_22 - Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840)
===Date unknown===
*Frederick_Temple, Archbishop_of_Canterbury (b. 1821)
*Hale__Johnson, American politician (b. 1847)
==Nobel Prizes==
* Physics - Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz, Pieter_Zeeman
* Chemistry - Hermann_Emil_Fischer
* Medicine - Ronald_Ross
* Literature - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
* Peace - Élie_Ducommun, Charles_Albert_Gobat
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