October 1902
The following events occurred in October 1902:
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October 2, 1902: The Tale of Peter Rabbit published throughout Britain
October 13, 1902: Ernest Rutherford sends wireless signal to moving train
October 1, 1902 (Wednesday)
- Dakar replaces Saint-Louis, Senegal, as capital of French West Africa.[1]
- The Royal Navy establishes its Home Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Gerard Noel.[2]
October 2, 1902 (Thursday)
- Beatrix Potter's illustrated children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, is commercially published by Frederick Warne & Co.[3]
- Born: Leopold Figl, future Chancellor of Austria, in Rust im Tullnerfeld, Austria (d. 1965)
October 3, 1902 (Friday)
- U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt convenes a conference of representatives of government, labor, and management, in a bid to end the long-running anthracite workers' strike.
October 5, 1902 (Sunday)
- The funeral of French novelist Émile Zola, who died a week earlier in mysterious circumstances, takes place at the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. It is attended by thousands, including Alfred Dreyfus, whose innocence Zola had protested.[4]
- Born:
- Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1975)
- Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (McDonald's), in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1984)
October 6, 1902 (Monday)
- An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 strikes the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.[5]
October 9, 1902 (Thursday)
- In Altona, Manitoba, Canada, Henry Toews, a teacher at the Mennonite School, shoots one or more colleagues and three children before wounding himself; he would survive another three months but died before a trial could be arranged. Only one of his victims, Anna Kehler, dies as a result of the shooting.[6]
- The first season of the Primera Fuerza football competition begins in Mexico.
October 10, 1902 (Friday)
October 11, 1902 (Saturday)
- The U.S. Open golf tournament is won by Scotland's Laurie Auchterlonie.[8]
- Firefighter Patrick J. Quail of the New York City Fire Department is thrown from his seat when a fire apparatus strikes a curb and sustains a fatal skull fracture.[9]
October 13, 1902 (Monday)
- New Zealand scientist Ernest Rutherford, while working at McGill University in Canada, demonstrates the first wireless communication system between a railway station and a moving train using a Grand Trunk Railway passenger special operating between Toronto and Montreal.[10]
- Born: Arna Bontemps, American writer, in Alexandria, Louisiana (d. 1973)
October 16, 1902 (Thursday)
- The first British youth offenders institution opens in Borstal, Rochester, Kent, England.
- In Paris, the murder of a servant is discovered, leading to the arrest of the murderer, Henri-Léon Scheffer, through fingerprint identification,[11]
October 18, 1902 (Saturday)
- Born:
- Miriam Hopkins, American actress, in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1972)
- Pascual Jordan, German physicist, in Hanover (d. 1980)
October 23, 1902 (Thursday)
- An evaporator explosion aboard the screw steamer USS Iris fatally burns Coal Passer William George Winklehaken.[12]
- Coal strike of 1902: The anthracite strike ends after 163 days, following an agreement on arbitration.[13]
October 24, 1902 (Friday)
- A jury in Cheyenne, Wyoming, returns a guilty verdict on Tom Horn at the end of his trial for murder.
October 25, 1902 (Saturday)
- In Jamestown, New York, 19-year-old George Edwin McClurg, substituting for an injured player at left halfback on the Jamestown High School football team, dies of a brain hemorrhage caused by an injury in a game against the Central High School team from Buffalo, New York. The game results in an 11-11 tie. Jamestown High School will cancel the remainder of its football season.[14]
- Born: Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1933)
- Died: Frank Norris, 32, American novelist, of peritonitis, following surgery on a burst appendix (b. 1870)[15]
October 26, 1902 (Sunday)
- Russian polar expedition: A group of Russian explorers led by Baron Eduard von Toll leave their camp on Bennett Island and disappear without a trace.
- At the end of the first season of competitive football in Brazil, the São Paulo Athletic Club emerge victorious.[16]
- Born: Jack Sharkey, American heavyweight boxing champion, in Binghamton, New York (d. 1994)
- Died: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 86, American social activist (b. 1815)
October 31, 1902 (Friday)
- A partial solar eclipse occurs.[17]
- Born: Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, in Itabira, Brazil (d. 1987)
References
- Aldrich, Robert (1996). Greater France: a History of French Overseas Expansion. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0-312-16000-3.
- Matthew S. Seligmann, A prelude to the reforms of Admiral Sir John Fisher: the creation of the Home Fleet, 1902–3, Historical Research, 2009
- Taylor, Judy (1996) [1986]. Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman. Frederick Warne. pp. 72, 76. ISBN 0-7232-4175-9.
- "Thousands March At Funeral of Emile Zola: Municipal Guards Line the Route to Preserve Order. Dreyfus Attends After All, Is Unnoticed by the Crowd – Mme. Zola Gave Him Back His Promise to Stay Away – Very Little Disorder". The New York Times. 6 October 1902.
- "Centennial Earthquake Catalog". United States Geological Survey. October 6, 1902. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
- Jim Chliboyko (15 March 2013). "The Altona school shooting of 1902". Spectator Tribune. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- "Auchterlonie Wins Open Championship at Garden City – Travis Ties for Second Place". The Fitchburg Sentinel. Fitchburg, Massachusetts. October 13, 1902. p. 1.
- "Line of Duty". NYC Fire Wire. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. 2008-11-04. Archived from the original on 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
- "Arrestation du premier assassin confondu par ses empreintes digitales". celebrations nationales. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- "Casualties: US Navy and Marine Corps Personnel Killed and Injured in Selected Accidents and Other Incidents Not Directly the Result of Enemy Action". Naval History and Heritage Command. 3 November 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- Rhodes, James Ford (1922). The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations, 1897–1909. p. 246.
- Anderson, Randy. "Death on the JHS Gridiron" (PDF). Jamestown Public Schools. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- "Death of Frank Norris" (PDF). The New York Times. October 26, 1902.
Frank Norris, the novelist, died to-day as the result of an operation for appendicitis performed three days ago.
- "País do futebol, Brasil é segunda força no Pan". UOL Esporte. Retrieved January 24, 2008.
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- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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