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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.
• January 30, 1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
• February 8, 1902 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• February 27, 1902 – Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry ‘Breaker’Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria for war crimes.
• April 18, 1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
• August 4, 1902 – The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
• October 21, 1902 – In the United States, a five-month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
• November 21, 1902 – The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
• November 29, 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.
• December 28, 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.

Who Were Born On 1902?

• February 6, 1902 – George Brunies, American trombonist (d. 1974)
• March 21, 1902 – Son House, American singer and guitarist (d. 1988)
• March 27, 1902 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
• April 13, 1902 – Philippe de Rothschild, French race car driver, playwright, and producer (d. 1988)
• April 19, 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• April 28, 1902 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic (d. 1979)
• July 19, 1902 – Samudrala Raghavacharya, Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)
• August 8, 1902 – Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• August 11, 1902 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
• September 5, 1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1979)