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April 1902

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The following events occurred in April 1902:

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April 1, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • The Naivasha and Kisumu regions of Uganda become part of British East Africa.

    • April 2, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Irish Nationalist politician John Redmond is awarded the freedom of the City of Dublin.

    • April 3, 1902 (Thursday)

  • Died: Esther Hobart Morris, 87, US suffragist judge

    • April 4, 1902 (Friday)

  • The concept of the Rhodes Scholarship is established under the will of the recently deceased Cecil Rhodes.
  • Born:
  • Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, French actress, in Verrières-le-Buisson (died 1969)
  • Stanley G. Weinbaum, US science-fiction author, in Louisville, Kentucky (died 1935)

    • April 5, 1902 (Saturday)

  • 1902 Ibrox disaster: During an international football match between Scotland and England, part of the newly-built wooden West Tribune Stand collapses, throwing hundreds of supporters to the ground below. 25 people are killed and 517 injured.
  • The first public performance of Maurice Ravel's popular piano piece Pavane pour une infante défunte is given by Ricardo Viñes.

    • April 7, 1902 (Monday)

  • Died: Metody Patchev, 26, Bulgarian revolutionary. Patchev had entered Kadino Selo with six other revolutionaries, not realising that Ottoman troops were stationed in the village. Recognising the hopelessness of their situation, he killed his friends and committed suicide.

    • April 8, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • A partial solar eclipse occurs.
  • Born:
  • Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer, in Birkenhead (died 1924)
  • Josef Krips, Austrian conductor and violinist, in Vienna (died 1974)

    • April 9, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Second Boer War: Having had their safe passage guaranteed by the British, Boer leaders, including Marthinus Steyn, Schalk Willem Burger, Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, Christiaan de Wet and Koos de la Rey, meet at Klerksdorp, Transvaal, to discuss the possibility of opening negotiations with the British.
  • The Underground Electric Railways Company of London is established, consolidating the group of Underground lines controlled by US financier Charles Tyson Yerkes.

    • April 10, 1902 (Thursday)

  • The Belgian general strike of 1902 begins, the second general strike in the country's history.

    • April 11, 1902 (Friday)

  • Battle of Rooiwal: In the last major battle of the Second Boer War, a commando led by General Jan Kemp attacks a larger force under Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kekewich. The British soldiers have a positional advantage and inflict severe losses on the Boers, effectively ending the war in Western Transvaal.
  • A earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes the south end of Lake Baykal, Russia. No injuries are recorded.

    • April 12, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Born: Louis Beel, twice Prime Minister of the Netherlands, in Roermond (died 1977)
  • Died: Marie Alfred Cornu, 61, French physicist

    • April 13, 1902 (Sunday)

  • A new car speed record of 74 mph (119 km/h) is set in Nice, France, by Léon Serpollet.
  • The Belgian steamer Legia collides with another steamer off the Newarp Lightvessel and sinks.

    • April 14, 1902 (Monday)

  • James Cash Penney opens his first store, in Kemmerer, Wyoming, USA.

    • April 15, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • Died: Jules Dalou, 63, French sculptor

    • April 16, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Thomas Lincoln Tally opens his "Electric Theatre" in Los Angeles, the city's first cinema.
  • Philippine–American War: General Miguel Malvar surrenders to US forces.

    • April 17, 1902 (Thursday)

  • Died: Francis, Duke of Cádiz, 79, former King consort of Spain as husband of Queen Isabella II

    • April 19, 1902 (Saturday)

  • The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ("Severe"), killing between 800 and 2,000 people.
  • The 1902 FA Cup Final takes place at Crystal Palace, UK, in "bitterly cold" weather, and ends in a draw, necessitating a replay. (See 26 April.)
  • Died: Hans von Pechmann, 52, German chemist

    • April 20, 1902 (Sunday)

  • Belgium's general strike is declared over by the Belgian Workers' Party, parliament having refused to agree to voting reform.

    • April 21, 1902 (Monday)

  • Died: Ethna Carbery, 35, Irish poet (gastritis)

    • April 23, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Mount Pelée, in Martinique, begins erupting, raining cinders on its southern and western side.
  • Born: Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate, in Reykjavik (died 1998)

    • April 24, 1902 (Thursday)

  • Died: Lavinia Veiongo, 23, queen consort of Tonga (tuberculosis)

    • April 25, 1902 (Friday)

  • Born: Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and war criminal, in Forst (Lausitz) (died 1964)

    • April 26, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Hibernian F.C. win the Scottish Cup 1–0 against Glasgow Celtic F.C.; they did not win the competition again until 2016.
  • The 1902 FA Cup Final is replayed at Crystal Palace, UK. Sheffield United defeat Southampton 2-1. After the game, the Sheffield goalkeeper, William "Fatty" Foulke, protests that the equalizing goal should have been disallowed, and attempts to attack the referee, Tom Kirkham.

    • April 27, 1902 (Sunday)

  • Voting takes place in the first round of France's Legislative Election.

    • April 28, 1902 (Monday)

  • Born: Johan Borgen, Norwegian author, in Oslo (died 1979)

    • April 29, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • UK Conservative MP James Kenyon resigns his seat in the House of Commons, using the procedural device of becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. This necessitates a by-election the following month in his constituency of Bury.

    • April 30, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande receives its premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, with Jean Périer in the role of Pelléas and Mary Garden as Mélisande. André Messager is the conductor.
  • Meteorological statistics show that, averaged over the whole of Australia, April 1902 has been the driest month since records began, with only 3.74 millimetres (0.15 in).
  • Born: Theodore Schultz, US economist and Nobel Prize laureate, in Evanston, Illinois (died 1998)

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