Spanish-Amer War (1898-1902)
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- Contents (full)
- 1 Events of 1902
- - Jan. . Feb. . March . April
- - May . June . July . Aug.
- - Sept. . Oct. . Nov. . Dec.
- - Undated . Ongoing .
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths
- 4 Nobel Prizes
- 5 See also - Notes - External links
Events of 1902
January
January - In France, Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.;
January 1 - The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.;
January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.;
February
February 11 - Police physically abuse universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.;
February 15 - Berlin U-Bahn underground is opened.;
February 18 - US President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.;
February 20 - American photographer Ansel Easton Adams, who was famous for his black and white photographs of California's Yosemite Valley, was born.;
March
March 4 - The American Automobile Association (AAA) is founded.;
March 6 - Real Madrid is founded as "FC Madrid".;
March 7 - Second 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 Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.;
March 31 - Disputed first powered heavier-than-air flight; most date it to year 1903, if at all.;
April
April 2 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.;
April 19 - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocks Guatemala, 2,000 people die.;
The Irish National Theatre Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge and George Russell.;
May
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 28,000 people, with only two survivors.;
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 Valerios 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.;
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