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Шаблон:Yearbox US Шаблон:Year in U.S. states and territories Шаблон:More citations needed Events from the year 1902 in the United States. Шаблон:TOC limit
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York)
- Vice President: vacant
- Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: David B. Henderson (R-Iowa)
- Congress: 57th
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Events
January–March
- January 3
- The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
- Nathan Stubblefield demonstrates his wireless telephone device in Kentucky.
- January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains.
- January 28 – The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C., to promote scientific research with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
- February 9 – Fire levels 26 city blocks of Jersey City, New Jersey.
- February 18 – U.S. President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.
- February 22 – Senators Benjamin Tillman and John L. McLaurin, both of South Carolina, have a fist fight while Congress is in session.[1] Both Tillman and McLaurin are censured by the Senate on February 28.
- February – A commission on yellow fever announces that the disease is carried by mosquitoes.
- March 10 – A Circuit Court decision ends Thomas Edison's monopoly on 35 mm movie film technology.[2]
April–June
- April 2 – The Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
- April 7 – The Texas Oil Company Texaco is founded.[3]
- April 14 – The first J. C. Penney department store opens in Kemmerer, Wyoming.[4]
- May 15 – It is claimed that in a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore achieves flight in a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider). There is no surviving evidence to verify this claim.
- May 20 – Cuba gains independence from the United States.
- May 22 – Crater Lake National Park is established in Oregon.
- June 2 – The coal strike of 1902 begins in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania.
- 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][6]
- June 15 – The New York Central railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- June 17 – The Newlands Reclamation Act funds irrigation projects for the arid lands of 17 states in the American West.
- June 24 – Target Corporation, the department store chain, is founded.
July–September
- July 1 – The Philippine Organic Act becomes law, providing that the lower house of the Philippine legislature will be elected after the insurrection ends.
- July 2 – The Philippine–American War ends.
- July 8 – The United States Bureau of Reclamation is established within the U.S. Geological Survey.
- July 10 – The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, Pennsylvania kills 112 miners.
- July 17 – Willis Carrier devises air conditioning in New York City.
- August 22 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American president to ride in an automobile, a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
- September 19 – Shiloh Baptist Church disaster: 115 people are killed during a stampede at the church in Birmingham, Alabama.
October–December
- October 21 – A 5-month strike by the United Mine Workers ends.
- October 24 – Delta Zeta Sorority is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
- November 16 – A newspaper cartoon inspires creation of the first teddy bear by Morris Michtom in the U.S.
- November 30 – On the American frontier, the second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, Harvey Logan ("Kid Curry"), is involved in a shoot out in Knoxville, TN and escaped.
- December – The Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903 occurs (until February 1903), in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela in order to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Undated
- The Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, Indiana, begins as a duck pond.[7]
- The First Goodwill Industries Store is opened in Boston, Massachusetts by Rev. Edgar J. Helms of Morgan Methodist Chapel.
Ongoing
- Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
- Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
- Philippine–American War (1899–1902)
Births
- January 4 – John A. McCone, CIA Director from 1961 to 1965 (died 1991)
- January 24 – E. A. Speiser, biblical scholar (died 1965)
- February 6 – George Brunies, jazz trombonist (died 1974)
- February 13 – Blair Moody, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1951 to 1952 (died 1954)
- February 19
- Kay Boyle, writer (died 1992)
- Eddie Peabody, musician (died 1970)
- February 27
- Ethelda Bleibtrey, Olympic swimmer (died 1978)[8]
- John Steinbeck, novelist (died 1968)
- March 4 – Russell Reeder, soldier and author (d. 1998)[9]
- March 16 – Leon Roppolo, jazz clarinetist (died 1943)
- March 17 – Bobby Jones, amateur golfer (died 1971)
- March 23 – Philip Ober, actor (died 1982)
- March 24 – Thomas E. Dewey, 47th Governor of New York, 1948 Republican presidential nominee (died 1971)[10]
- April 11 – Quentin Reynolds, journalist (died 1965)
- April 2 – David Worth Clark, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1939 to 1945 (died 1955)
- April 27 – Harry Stockwell, actor and singer (died 1984)
- May 6 – Harry Golden, Ukrainian-born American journalist (died 1981)
- May 11 – Dick Curtis, actor (died 1952)
- May 15 – Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago from 1956 (died 1976)
- May 21 – Earl Averill, baseball player (died 1983)
- May 27 – Gladys Pearl Baker, film editor and mother of actress Marilyn Monroe (died 1984)
- June 2
- James T. Berryman, political cartoonist, recipient of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (died 1971)
- Rosa Rio, organist and composer (died 2010)[11]
- July 4 – George Murphy, U.S. Senator from California from 1965 to 1971 (died 1992)
- August 1 – Harold D. Schuster, film director (died 1986)
- August 4 – Clara Peller, actress (died 1987)
- August 18 – Margaret Murie, environmentalist and author (died 2003)[12]
- September 7 – Roy Barcroft, actor (died 1969)
- October 3 – Waldo McBurney, America's oldest worker (died 2009)
- October 5 – Ray Kroc, businessman, founder of McDonald's (died 1984)
- October 13 – Arna Wendell Bontemps, writer (died 1973)[13] ***
- October 25 – Henry Steele Commager, historian (died 1998)
- November 14 – Pua Kealoha, Olympic swimmer (died 1989)
- November 19 – Trevor Bardette, actor (died 1977)
- November 23 – Aaron Bank, colonel (died 2004)
- December 5 – Strom Thurmond, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (died 2003)
- December 9 – Margaret Hamilton, actress (died 1985)[14]
- December 14 – Frances Bavier, stage and television actress (died 1989)[15]
- December 15 – Bernard L. Austin, admiral (died 1979)
- December 23 – Norman Maclean, author (died 1990)
- December 27 – Carman Maxwell, animator and voice actor (died 1987)
- December 28 – Mortimer Adler, philosopher (died 2001)
Deaths
- January 15 – Alpheus Hyatt, zoologist and paleontologist (born 1838)
- February 18 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co. (born 1812)
- March 12 – John Peter Altgeld, 20th Governor of Illinois (born 1847)
- March 14 – Daniel H. Reynolds, Confederate Brigadier General (born 1832)
- April 3 – Esther Hobart Morris, first women justice of the peace in the United States (born 1814)
- April 27 – Julius Sterling Morton, 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture (born 1832)
- May 5 – Bret Harte, short-story writer and poet (born 1836)
- May 26 – Almon Brown Strowger, inventor (born 1839)
- June 5 – Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness for the prosecution in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (born 1842)
- July 27 – Packy Dillon, baseball player (born 1853)
- August 10 – James McMillan, Canadian-born U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1889 to 1902 (born 1838)
- September 26 – Levi Strauss, founder of Levi Strauss & Co. (born 1829)
- October 26 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist (born 1815)
- November 22 – Walter Reed, Army physician (born 1851)[16]
- November 27 – George S. Cook, prominent early American photographer (born 1819)
- November 29 – John Elliott Ward, politician and diplomat (born 1814)
- December 4 – Charles Dow, founder of Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal (born 1851)
- December 7 – Thomas Nast, political cartoonist (born 1840)
- December 14 – Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (born 1826)
- December 22 – Dwight M. Sabin, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1883 to 1889 (born 1843)
- December 26 – Mary Hartwell Catherwood, author and poet (born 1849)[17]
See also
References
Further reading
- Шаблон:Citation
- Шаблон:Citation. (Covers events May 1898-June 1905)
External links
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