1902
common year starting on Wednesday From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1902.
Remove ads
Events
- July 11 – Arthur Balfour becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- September 1 – A Trip to the Moon, the first science fiction movie, premières.
- Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium
- The Real Madrid football club starts in Spain
- Statue of Boudica unveiled in Westminster, London
Births
January
- January 8 – Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
February
- February 1 – Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967)
- February 4 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (d. 1974)
- February 10 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (d. 1987)
- February 27 – John Steinbeck, American writer (d. 1968)
March
- March 24 – Thomas E. Dewey, American politician (d. 1971)
April
May
June
.jpg)
- June 16 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (d. 1992)
July
- July 10 – Kurt Alder, German chemist (d. 1958)
August
- August 8 – Paul Dirac, English physicist (d. 1984)
September
- September 21 – Ruhollah Khomeini, revolutionary leader (d. 1989)
October
November
- November 9 - Anthony Asquith, British director (d. 1968)
December
- December 5 – Strom Thurmond, American politician (d. 2003)
- December 9 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
Remove ads
Deaths
- April 30 - Swami Vivekananda - Indian social reformer (b. 1863)
- December 14 – Julia Grant – former First Lady of the United States (b. 1826)
- September 16 – Levi Strauss, American business person (b. 1829)
Hits songs
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads