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1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1902nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 902nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1902, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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From top to bottom, left to right: The catastrophic 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on the Caribbean island of Martinique destroys the town of Saint-Pierre, killing nearly 30,000 people in minutes and becoming one of the deadliest volcanic disasters in history; the Second Boer War comes to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging, formally bringing the former Boer republics under British control; the lavish Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra takes place at Westminster Abbey, marking the formal start of the Edwardian era in Britain; the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903 begins as European powers blockade Venezuelan ports over unpaid debts, challenging the Monroe Doctrine and drawing U.S. diplomatic intervention; the Anthracite coal strike of 1902 sees American miners demand higher wages and shorter workdays, leading to President Theodore Roosevelt’s historic mediation; the pioneering French silent film A Trip to the Moon, directed by Georges Méliès, premieres and becomes one of cinema’s earliest and most iconic works.
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Events

January

January 1: first Rose Bowl college American football game.
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Andrew Carnegie

February

March

April

May

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May 8: Mount Pelée erupts.

June

  • June 13 Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, predecessor of global consumer goods brand 3M, begins trading as a mining venture at Two Harbors in the United States.[5]
  • June 15 The New York Central Railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City.
  • June 16 The Commonwealth Franchise Act in Australia grants women's suffrage in federal elections for resident British subjects (with certain ethnic minorities excepted), making Australia the first independent country to grant women the vote at a national level, and the first country to allow them to stand for Parliament.
  • June 26 Edward VII institutes the Order of Merit, an order bestowed personally by the British monarch on up to 24 distinguished Empire recipients.

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August

September

October

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October 24: Santa María erupts

November

December

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Births

January

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Georgy Malenkov
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Saud of Saudi Arabia
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Tallulah Bankhead

February

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Charles Lindbergh
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Léon M'ba
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John Steinbeck

March

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Son House
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Thomas E. Dewey
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Dame Flora Robson

April

May

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Alfred Kastler

June

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Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu

July

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George Murphy
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Sir Karl Popper

August

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Paul Dirac
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Mohammad Hatta

September

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Juscelino Kubitschek
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Ruhollah Khomeini

October

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Leopold Figl

November

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Eugene Wigner
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Mikhail Suslov

December

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Strom Thurmond
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Margaret Hamilton

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Deaths

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Cecil Rhodes
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Hans von Pechmann
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Esther Hobart Morris
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Saint Agostino Roscelli

JulyDecember

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Saint Maria Goretti
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Rudolf Virchow
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Émile Zola
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Prudente de Morais
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Nobel Prizes

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References

Further reading and year books

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