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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

• February 8, 1902 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• April 2, 1902 – “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
• May 4, 1902 – Eight fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, Ireland in a drowning tragedy.
• May 31, 1902 – Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
• June 28, 1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
• July 14, 1902 – The Campanile in St. Mark’s Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
• July 17, 1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
• 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.
• December 14, 1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Who Were Born On 1902?

• January 24, 1902 – Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, Ukrainian-American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1965)
• January 26, 1902 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author (d. 1940)
• May 11, 1902 – Karl Pärsimägi, Estonian painter (d. 1942)
• May 24, 1902 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1954)
• July 28, 1902 – Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (d. 1959)
• August 19, 1902 – Ogden Nash, American poet and author (d. 1971)
• August 25, 1902 – Stefan Wolpe, German-American composer and educator (d. 1972)
• September 29, 1902 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican lawyer and politician, 46th President of Mexico (d. 1983)
• October 28, 1902 – Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer (d. 1986)
• November 23, 1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (d. 1982)