July 1902 Explained
The following events occurred in July 1902:
July 1, 1902 (Tuesday)
- The Raymond Stampede, Canada's oldest professional rodeo, was launched in Raymond, Alberta.[1]
- In London, the Prince of Wales (the future King George V of the United Kingdom), reviewed a parade of thousands of British colonial troops who had traveled from their native lands to be present for the coronation of his father, King Edward VII.
- The Philippine Organic Act was enacted by the United States Congress and became law, providing for the election of a Philippine Assembly following the cessation of the Philippine–American War.[2] [3]
- The Biologics Control Act took effect in the United States after being passed by Congress in the wake of the deaths of 13 children (starting on October 26, 1901) from a tainted serum that had been intended to treat diphtheria. The new law authorized the United States Public Health Service to inspect producers and test their medicines, as well as to require the first expiration dates to be placed on health products.[4]
- The uninhabited Henderson Island of the Pitcairn Islands was formally annexed to the British Empire.[5]
- Oliver Robert Hawke Bury became general manager of Great Northern Railway in the United Kingdom, after working for the Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway in Argentina.[6]
- The first national anthem of the Korean Empire, commissioned by the Emperor Gojong, was presented to the imperial court by German composer Franz Eckert, the hymn's author as director of the Korean military band. It would be performed for the first time on September 9, 1902.
- Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli) was discovered as a distinct species by explorer C. W. Campbell, who collected the first specimen for taxonomists, in Inner Mongolia, near the village of Shaborte.[7]
- Luceafărul ("Evening Star"), a literary magazine in the Romanian language, was published for the first time, in Budapest.[8]
- Born: William Wyler, Swiss-American film director, in Mülhausen, Elsass-Lothringen, German Empire (now Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine in France), under the name Wilhelm Weiller (d. 1981)
- Died: Anthony Giuseppe, an immigrant involved in the coal miners' strike, died after he was shot, apparently by accident, by Coal and Iron Police at a Lehigh Valley Coal Company colliery in Old Forge, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.[9]
July 2, 1902 (Wednesday)
July 3, 1902 (Thursday)
July 4, 1902 (Friday)
July 5, 1902 (Saturday)
July 6, 1902 (Sunday)
- Maria Goretti, an 11-year-old girl living in Ancona in Italy, died the day after she was fatally stabbed by an 18-year-old neighbor, Alessandro Serenelli, when she resisted his romantic advances. Before dying, Maria forgave her killer. Serenelli went to prison for 27 years and, after his release, would ask for and receive forgiveness from Maria's mother, Assunta Goretti.[17] Serenelli would enter a monastery and become well known as Father Stephano. He and Mrs. Goretti lived to see the beatification of Maria.[18] After verification of miracles attributed to her, the canonization of Saint Maria Goretti by Pope Pius XII would take place on June 24, 1950.[19]
- Born: Wiktoria Goryńska, Austrian-Polish artist and resistance leader against the Nazi German invasion, in Vienna (d. 1945 at the Ravensbrück concentration camp)
July 7, 1902 (Monday)
July 8, 1902 (Tuesday)
July 9, 1902 (Wednesday)
July 10, 1902 (Thursday)
July 11, 1902 (Friday)
July 12, 1902 (Saturday)
July 13, 1902 (Sunday)
July 14, 1902 (Monday)
July 15, 1902 (Tuesday)
July 16, 1902 (Wednesday)
- U.S. Army Brigadier General Jacob H. Smith received a reprimand and a forced retirement from the service, on orders of the U.S. Commander-in-chief, President Theodore Roosevelt, for having issued "kill and burn" orders in the Philippines.[3]
- The Pilgrims Society, an organization with a mission "to promote good-will, good-fellowship, and everlasting peace between the United States and the United Kingdom, was founded with the creation of The Pilgrims of Great Britain at a meeting in London at the Carlton Hotel by English aviation pioneers Harry Brittain and Charles Rolls, as well as United States Army and Confederate States Army officer Joseph Wheeler and British Army officer Bryan Mahon.[30] Its American counterpart, The Pilgrims of the United States, would be founded six months later on January 13, 1903 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.[31]
- The town of Lonsdale, Minnesota was created by auction of 80 acres of lots platted out for sale by the Milwaukee Land Company and corporate owner Thomas Wilby, in order to create a train depot and a stop on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway.[32] One hundred years later, the population had grown from 271 people to almost 1,500, and the population now is over 4,200.
- Born:
July 17, 1902 (Thursday)
- American engineer Willis Carrier successfully submitted his plans for the first modern air conditioning system to be installed, with the first practical means of controlling humidity in addition to the other functions of cooling, circulating and cleansing the air.[33] The first Carrier system was installed during the summer at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company premises in Brooklyn, New York and refined. Carrier filed a patent application for his invention, "Apparatus for treating air", on September 16, 1904, and U.S. Patent No. 808,897 was granted on January 2, 1906.[34] and, in 1915, founded the Carrier Engineering Corporation, one of the world's largest manufacturers of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems.
- Lord Hopetoun, Governor-General of Australia since the foundation of the Commonwealth, departed Australia after more than 18 months in office and sailed from Brisbane with his family on his return to the United Kingdom.[35] Lord Hopetoun was succeeded by Lord Tennyson, the Governor of South Australia.
- The Earl Cadogan announced his resignation as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland after seven years as the island's governor within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.[3] He would be succeeded on August 11 by the Earl of Dudley.
- The current regulation U.S. Army “saber for all officers, Model 1902" was adopted on July 17, 1902, by authority of General Order No. 81. The M1902 officer's sabre remains the standard within the United States Army for ceremonial purposes.
- The Texas Mexican Railway was converted to a standard gauge.
July 18, 1902 (Friday)
- A spokesman for Buckingham Palace announced that the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra as King and Queen Consort would take place in London on August 9.[3]
- A public sea-water bath was opened at Kalvebod Brygge in Copenhagen.[36]
- Born:
- Chill Wills (Theodore Childress Wills), American film actor, best known for The Alamo and providing the voice of Francis the Talking Mule in a series of film comedies, in Seagoville, Texas (d. 1976)
- Armitage Trail (pen name for Maurice R. Coons), American crime and detective fiction author known for his 1929 novel Scarface, adapted to film in 1932 and in 1983, in Madison, Nebraska (d. 1930 from heart failure)
- Dimitar Panov, Bulgarian film and TV actor, in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria (d. 1985)
- Died:
July 19, 1902 (Saturday)
July 20, 1902 (Sunday)
- The first international match ever played by Argentina's national soccer football team took place in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, at a field in the Paso del Molino barrio, where the Argentines were the guests of Uruguay's national team, which was also playing its first international match. Argentina won, 6 to 0, with the first-ever goal having been scored by Carlos Edgard Dickinson.[37] Both national teams would later win FIFA World Cup titles, Uruguay in 1930 and Argentina in 1978, 1986 and 2022.
- Ali bin Hamud was proclaimed as the eighth Sultan of Zanzibar, two days after the death of his father, the Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed.[3] Alexander Stuart Rogers, a British colonial official, was appointed as the regent for the Sultan until Ali reached the age of 21.[38]
July 21, 1902 (Monday)
- Fluminense, a four-time national soccer football champion in Brazil, was founded in Rio de Janeiro.[39]
- A German excursion steamer, Primus, sank in the Elbe River after being cut in two accidentally by a Hamburg America Line tugboat, Hansa, and 101 of the 206 people on board drowned.[40]
- U.S. Army Major General Arthur MacArthur Jr., formerly the Governor-General of the Philippines, began his first job since his return to the United States, as commander of the United States Army's Department of the East.[40]
- Born: Joseph Kesselring, American playwright, in New York City (d. 1967)
July 22, 1902 (Tuesday)
- The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, the world's oldest intergovernmental science organization, was founded in Copenhagen.
- The British Museum Act was given royal assent, empowering the trustees to remove "newspapers and other printed matter which are rarely required for public use" to a remote storage location. These would form the basis of the British Library Newspapers Division at Colindale, London.[41] Other legislation given royal assent on the same day were the University of Wales Act, the Musical Copyright Act, the Labour Bureaux Act, the Prison Officers Act, the Pauper Children Act and the Immoral Traffic Act.
- Italian-born American prospector Felix Pedro discovered gold in an area north of the small trading post settlement of Fairbanks in the Alaska Territory, setting off the Fairbanks Gold Rush, the second wave of gold fever in Alaska, three years after the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 to 1899.[42]
- The town of Apache, Oklahoma, was incorporated in the course of allowing non-Indians to settle in the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation in the former "Indian Territory" that is now the state of Oklahoma.
- Died: Thomas Croke, 78, Irish Catholic bishop of Auckland, New Zealand, and Archbishop of Cashel in Ireland (b. 1824)
July 23, 1902 (Wednesday)
July 24, 1902 (Thursday)
July 25, 1902 (Friday)
July 26, 1902 (Saturday)
July 27, 1902 (Sunday)
- The first major libel case of the 20th century was prompted by the publication, in the Philadelphia North American newspaper, of a false report that Cheyenne Indian Chief White Buffalo had been arrested and was awaiting trial for the murder of three white women as part of a hate crime. The story, written by W. R. Draper of Wichita, Kansas, was purchased from Draper by the newspaper and then reprinted in other newspapers across the United States. White Buffalo and the founder of the Carlisle Indian School traveled to Philadelphia to refute the article and the North American printed a retraction, as well as filing criminal charges and a civil suit against Draper as a deterrent against other people who would submit a false article.[44]
- A powerful earthquake struck Santa Barbara County, California.[40]
- Born: Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian Soviet Communist and playwright, in Dünow, Austria-Hungary (now in Dynów in Poland) (d. 1949, assassinated by independence activists)
- Died: Gustave Trouvé, 63, French electrical engineer who invented miniature and less heavy electric motors and batteries, died from sepsis after accidentally cutting his thumb and index finger while working on his final invention for ultraviolet light therapy for treatment of skin diseases. (b. 1839)
July 28, 1902 (Monday)
- President José Santos Zelaya of Nicaragua commuted the death sentence imposed on an American physician, Dr. Russell Wilson, by a Nicaraguan military court after Wilson had conspired with revolutionists to overthrow President Zelaya's government.[40]
- A rare earthquake in the Great Plains states affected a 200sqmi area in northern Nebraska, northwest Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota.[40]
- Born:
July 29, 1902 (Tuesday)
July 30, 1902 (Wednesday)
July 31, 1902 (Thursday)
Notes and References
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- Web site: The History of the First Philippine Assembly (1907–1916). Official Website. National Historical Commission of the Philippines. 18 December 2011. 12 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201112201309/https://nhcp.gov.ph/the-history-of-the-first-philippine-assembly-1907-1916/. dead.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=4WRPAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22current+events%22+%22july+20,+1902%22&pg=PA151 "Record of Current Events"
- Ronald Hamowy, Government and Public Health in America (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008) pp. 120–121
- Web site: History of Government and Laws, Part 15 History of Pitcairn Island. https://web.archive.org/web/20141211081408/http://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/pitcairn/govt-history15.shtml. 2014-12-11. Pitcairn Islands Study Centre. 2015-07-04. dead.
- Web site: September 30, 2008 . Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior railway officers. November 20, 2008 . steamindex.com . Bury, Oliver Robert Hawke .
- Thomas Oldfield, "A new Cricetulus from Mongolia", Journal of Natural History (1905), 15 (87): 322–323
- Book: Marcel Cornis-Pope. John Neubauer. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions. 14 August 2015. 18 July 2007. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 978-90-272-9235-3. 59.
- News: Striker Shot Dead by Police. 25 March 2016. Daily News from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. July 2, 1902.
- Book: Tingay, Lance. 100 Years of Wimbledon. 1977. Guinness Superlatives. Enfield [Eng.]. 0900424710.
- Dean Conant Worcester, The Philippines: Past and Present (Macmillan, 1914) p. 293
- Web site: Queensland General Election Dates 1860–1929. Queensland Parliament. 16 December 2013.
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/07/04/101957581.pdf "GENERAL AMNESTY FOR THE FILIPINOS; Proclamation Issued by the President"
- Book: Images of Rail: Pacific Electric Red Cars. Walker, Jim. 2006. Arcadia Publishing. 0-7385-4688-7. 7.
- Mafia encyclopedia, Carl Sifakis, 2005, pp. 250–253
- Web site: The Postponed Coronation and Appendix Operation of King Edward VII – 24 June 1902 . The British Newspaper Archive . 23 June 2013 . 21 December 2013 . blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131224103215/http://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2013/06/23/the-appendix-operation-on-king-edward-vii-24-june-1902/ . 24 December 2013 .
- "Holy See Considers Beatification of Girl Who Died Defending Her Virtue", The Catholic Advance (Wichita, Kansas), October 30, 1942, p. 11
- "Murderer Views Vatican Rites Beatifying Girl He Killed", San Francisco Examiner, April 28, 1947, p. 1
- "100,000 Look On As Child Is Made Saint Of Purity", Miami News, June 25, 1950, p. 1
- Michael Balfour, Britain and Joseph Chamberlain (Faber & Faber, 1985)
- Admiral Ben Moreell, Report on Water Resources and Power (Government Printing Office, 1955) pp. 1145-1146
- David G. Savage, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court (CQ Press, 2004) p. 961
- Web site: The Rolling Mill Mine Disaster . Steven . Pavlik.
- Book: Winchester, Mark D. . Cartoon Theatricals from 1896 to 1927: Gus Hill's Cartoon Shows for the American Road Theatre . . 1995.
- Book: Edelman, Ángel. 1991. Primera historia del Neuquén: recuerdos territorianos. Early history of Neuquén: Territorial memories. 978-9-502-11017-2. Plus Ultra.
- Inviting Disaster 4. List of Modern Marvels episodes. Modern Marvels. Modern Marvels. Produced, written and directed by David DeVries. The History Channel. 2003-11-04.
- Motoring Illustrated, August 2, 1902, pp. 215–216
- "A Lady Navigates an Airship", Manawatu (NZ) Times, September 11, 1902, p. 3
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226397536 "Village of Shuttleton Proclamation"
- http://www.pilgrimsociety.org/history.php "The History of the Pilgrims of Great Britain"
- http://www.pilgrimsociety.org/pigrimsOfTheUS.php "The Pilgrims of the United States"
- https://lonsdalemn.com/index.asp?SEC=1D996935-4B4D-42D3-8A25-75BD5AEB20AE&Type=B_BASIC "History of Lonsdale"
- https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/did-you-know-the-first-air-conditioner-ever-was-installed-in-brooklyn "Did You Know The First Air Conditioner Ever Was Installed In Brooklyn?"
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US808897|U.S. Patent No. 808,897, Apparatus for treating air
- Brian Carroll, Australia's Governors-General: From Hopetoun to Jeffery (Rosenberg, 2004) p. 32
- Web site: 1902. Selskabet for Københavns Historie. 2010-01-20. 2009-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20090301062133/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1900/1902.html. dead.
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- https://www.fluminense.com.br/sobre/a-historia "A História"
- https://books.google.com/books?id=4WRPAQAAMAAJ&q=%22current%20events%22%20%22august%2020,%201902%22 "Record of Current Events"
- The Public General Acts Passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His Majesty King Edward the Seventh. London: printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1902.
- "Exact date of Felix Pedro's gold discovery remains a mystery", by Dermot Cole, Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner, July 22, 2002
- Book: Turner, Keith . The Directory of British Tramways. 1996 . Patrick Stephens Ltd . 1-85260-549-9.
- News: Charge of Faking: W. R. Draper Under Arrest in St. Louis . . . November 27, 1902 . 8.
- https://archive.org/details/constitutionaly07unkngoog The Constitutional Year Book
- News: The Iron Age. 70 . 45. Chilton Company. August 7, 1902.
- C. E. R. Murray, Daniel Wilberforce and David Ritchie, Mount Kembla Colliery Disaster 31 July 1902 – Report of the Royal Commission, together with minutes of evidence and exhibits (New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1903)
- Book: Turner, Keith . The Great Orme Tramway – over a century of service . Gwasg Carreg Gwalch . Llanrwst . 2003 . 978-0-86381-817-2 . 65–68.