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1902 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2025. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1902 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1902

• January 28, 1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• February 8, 1902 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• March 7, 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.
• April 2, 1902 – “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
• April 18, 1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
• May 8, 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.
• May 17, 1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
• August 4, 1902 – The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
• August 22, 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

Who Were Born On 1902?

• February 2, 1902 – Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician (d. 1966)
• February 26, 1902 – Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit (d. 1991)
• March 13, 1902 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
• May 15, 1902 – Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
• July 5, 1902 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American colonel and politician, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1985)
• August 11, 1902 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
• October 5, 1902 – Larry Fine, American actor and singer (d. 1975)
• October 13, 1902 – Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic (d. 1987)
• November 23, 1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (d. 1982)
• December 14, 1902 – Frances Bavier, American actress and singer (d. 1989)