1902 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1902?
- January 1, 1902 – The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
- January 28, 1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
- 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.
- March 7, 1902 – Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war
- April 13, 1902 – James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
- April 18, 1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
- April 20, 1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
- May 20, 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country’s first President.
- May 31, 1902 – Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
- June 24, 1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
- 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 4, 1902 – The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
- August 9, 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- August 22, 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
- 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.
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