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October 1902

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The following events occurred in October 1902:

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October 1, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Dakar replaces Saint-Louis, Senegal, as capital of French West Africa.
  • Britain's Royal Navy establishes its Home Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Gerard Noel.

    • October 2, 1902 (Thursday)

  • Beatrix Potter's illustrated children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, is commercially published by Frederick Warne & Co.
  • Born: Leopold Figl, future Chancellor of Austria, in Rust im Tullnerfeld (died 1965)

    • October 3, 1902 (Friday)

  • US President Theodore Roosevelt convenes a conference of representatives of government, labor, and management, in a bid to end the long-running [[Coal strike of 1902|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, Paris. It is attended by thousands, including Alfred Dreyfus, whose innocence Zola had protested.
  • Born:
  • Larry Fine, US actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 1975)
  • Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (McDonald's), in Oak Park, Illinois (died 1984)

    • October 6, 1902 (Monday)

  • An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 strikes the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.

    • 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.
  • The first season of the Primera Fuerza football competition begins in Mexico.

    • October 10, 1902 (Friday)

  • The Japanese steamer Yoshina Maru is abandoned after catching fire in the Van Diemen Strait. The ship drifts ashore at Kagoshima, Japan.

    • October 11, 1902 (Saturday)

  • The U.S. Open golf tournament is won by Scotland's Laurie Auchterlonie.

    • October 13, 1902 (Monday)

  • New Zealand scientist Ernest Rutherford, while working at McGill University, 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.
  • Born: Arna Bontemps, US writer, in Alexandria, Louisiana (died 1973)

    • October 16, 1902 (Thursday)

  • The first Borstal (youth offenders' institution) opens in Borstal, Rochester, Kent, U.K.
  • In Paris, the murder of a servant is discovered, leading to the arrest of the murderer, Henri-Léon Scheffer, through fingerprint identification,

    • October 18, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Born:
  • Miriam Hopkins, US actress, in Savannah, Georgia (died 1972)
  • Pascual Jordan, German physicis, in Hanover (died 1980)

    • October 23, 1902 (Thursday)

  • Coal strike of 1902: The anthracite strike ends after 163 days, following an agreement on arbitration.

    • October 24, 1902 (Friday)

  • A jury in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA, returns a guilty verdict on Tom Horn at the end of his trial for murder.

    • October 25, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Born: Eddie Lang, US jazz guitarist, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 1933)
  • Died: Frank Norris, 32, US novelist, of peritonitis, following surgery on a burst appendix

    • October 26, 1902 (Sunday)

  • At the end of the first season of competitive football in Brazil, São Paulo Athletic Club emerge victorious.
  • Born: Jack Sharkey, US heavyweight boxing champion, in Binghamton, New York (died 1994)
  • Died: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 86, US social activist

    • October 31, 1902 (Friday)

  • A partial solar eclipse occurs.
  • Born: Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, in Itabira (died 1987)

    • References

    October 1902 Wikipedia
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