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Events on the year of 1902 in history

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01 Jan 1902 1st Rose Bowl game (Pasadena, California) (University of Michigan - 49, Sanford - 0)
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01 Jan 1902 Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn
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01 Jan 1902 The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
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03 Jan 1902 Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, vs. England at MCG
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04 Jan 1902 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick vs. England at the MCG
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08 Jan 1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
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10 Jan 1902 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
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12 Jan 1902 Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formally dissolved.
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13 Jan 1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1
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23 Jan 1902 Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for the Stanley Cup
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24 Jan 1902 Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA
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25 Jan 1902 Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg
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27 Jan 1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City NY)
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28 Jan 1902 The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
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28 Jan 1902 Carnegie Institute founded in Washington DC
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30 Jan 1902 The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
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01 Feb 1902 Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben, " premieres in Berlin
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11 Feb 1902 Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
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15 Feb 1902 Underground railway (U-Bahn)
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18 Feb 1902 Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame, " premieres in Monte Carlo
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18 Feb 1902 The opera "Le Jongleur (Hunchback) de Notre Dame" is produced (Monte Carlo)
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20 Feb 1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco
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21 Feb 1902 Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
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24 Feb 1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit Boer General De la Rey beats British
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27 Feb 1902 Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria for war crimes.
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28 Feb 1902 Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
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04 Mar 1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
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06 Mar 1902 Real Madrid C.F. is founded.
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07 Mar 1902 Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
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07 Mar 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.
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09 Mar 1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
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10 Mar 1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
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17 Mar 1902 Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1
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18 Mar 1902 Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
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25 Mar 1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
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28 Mar 1902 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record)
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02 Apr 1902 1st motion picture theater opens (LA)
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02 Apr 1902 "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
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02 Apr 1902 Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
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04 Apr 1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
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05 Apr 1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25
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07 Apr 1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
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11 Apr 1902 Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa
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13 Apr 1902 James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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14 Apr 1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium
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15 Apr 1902 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"
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15 Apr 1902 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On the Church in the US"
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18 Apr 1902 Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
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18 Apr 1902 Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
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19 Apr 1902 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor of New York in 2:43:12
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20 Apr 1902 Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
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20 Apr 1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium
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25 Apr 1902 Erwin Harvey becomes 1st Cleveland ballplayer (Cleveland Bronchos) to have six hits in one game
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30 Apr 1902 Debussy's opera "Pell
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02 May 1902 "A Trip To The Moon, " the 1st science fiction film released
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03 May 1902 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75
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04 May 1902 Eight fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, Ireland in a drowning tragedy.
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06 May 1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
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06 May 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" (BG)
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06 May 1902 Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa
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06 May 1902 Macario Sakay establishes the Tagalog Republic with himself as President.
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07 May 1902 Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent kills 2-5,000
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08 May 1902 In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
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15 May 1902 Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft
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15 May 1902 Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola
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16 May 1902 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3
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17 May 1902 Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
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19 May 1902 Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
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20 May 1902 Cuba gains independence from Spain
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20 May 1902 Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
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20 May 1902 US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends
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22 May 1902 36th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Mastermam wins in 2:22.6
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24 May 1902 Cleveland's Bill Bradley is 1st American League-er to hit a homerun in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918
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24 May 1902 Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
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27 May 1902 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8
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29 May 1902 Dutch State Mine law forms
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31 May 1902 Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
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31 May 1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 vs England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever
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31 May 1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
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01 Jun 1902 Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms
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02 Jun 1902 2nd statewide initiative and referendum law adopted, in Oregon
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09 Jun 1902 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia)
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10 Jun 1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan
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13 Jun 1902 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
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15 Jun 1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time
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15 Jun 1902 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
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24 Jun 1902 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
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26 Jun 1902 Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII
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26 Jun 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Garidebs" (BG)
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26 Jun 1902 England establishes Order of Merit
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26 Jun 1902 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #488 Kreusa
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26 Jun 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 3 Garidebs" (BG)
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28 Jun 1902 US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
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28 Jun 1902 The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
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28 Jun 1902 Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
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30 Jun 1902 Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning
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30 Jun 1902 S I Bailey discovers asteroid #504 Cora
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01 Jul 1902 Ranji (230) and Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex vs. Essex
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01 Jul 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)
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02 Jul 1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of New York Giants (stays for 30 years)
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03 Jul 1902 Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam
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08 Jul 1902 John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles
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11 Jul 1902 British Premier Lord Salisbury resigns
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12 Jul 1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
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14 Jul 1902 The Campanile in St. Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
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15 Jul 1902 Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex vs. Surrey
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16 Jul 1902 John McGraw named manager of New York Giants
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17 Jul 1902 Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the American League
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17 Jul 1902 Baltimore (AL) didn't have enough men to field their team
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19 Jul 1902 New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
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21 Jul 1902 Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York
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25 Jul 1902 James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
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26 Jul 1902 Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
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29 Jul 1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US and Canada forms
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30 Jul 1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
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01 Aug 1902 Building begins on Dutch public housing
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01 Aug 1902 Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
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04 Aug 1902 The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
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08 Aug 1902 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2)
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09 Aug 1902 Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
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09 Aug 1902 Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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13 Aug 1902 England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
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22 Aug 1902 President Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
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31 Aug 1902 Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
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01 Sep 1902 Tinker, Evers, and Chance appear together for 1st time
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01 Sep 1902 A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
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03 Sep 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season)
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03 Sep 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client"
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10 Sep 1902 Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
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17 Sep 1902 US protests anti-semitism in Romania
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20 Sep 1902 Chicago White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
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24 Sep 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG)
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24 Sep 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Red Circle" (BG)
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29 Sep 1902 Impresario David Belasco opened his 1st Broadway theater
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11 Oct 1902 8th US Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City, New York
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11 Oct 1902 Lawrence Auchterlonie wins US Open golf tournament
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13 Oct 1902 Arna W Bontemps noted Poet and librarian of Fisk University
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21 Oct 1902 In the United States, a five-month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
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25 Oct 1902 Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die
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15 Nov 1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
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18 Nov 1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt
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20 Nov 1902 Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
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21 Nov 1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
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29 Nov 1902 The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
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30 Nov 1902 American Old West: Kid Curry Logan, second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
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02 Dec 1902 Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer
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08 Dec 1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
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09 Dec 1902 AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in New York
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14 Dec 1902 The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
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17 Dec 1902 Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist" premieres in Berlin
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25 Dec 1902 Clyde Fitch' "Girl with Green Eyes" premieres in New York NY
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26 Dec 1902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
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28 Dec 1902 The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
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28 Dec 1902 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Philadelphia 6-0 (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
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28 Dec 1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
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31 Dec 1902 Boers & British army sign peace treaty
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