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unusual facts about 1902


United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1902

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1902 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 4, 1902.


1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

The 1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the fifteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

African Rifles

The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from the various British possessions in East Africa created in 1902

Angel D'Meza

He played from 1902 to 1908 with several teams, including Fe, Almendares, San Francisco, Azul, and Habana, .

Anton Thraen

Anton Karl Thraen (17 January 1843 in Holungen – 18 February 1902 in Dingelstädt) was a German astronomer and named two minor planets, 442 Eichsfeldia and 443 Photographica.

Bertie Alexander Meyer

In 1902, he worked under director Arthur Lewis at the Garrick Theatre who was putting on a series of plays with actress Gabrielle Réjane.

Boleslas Gajewski

Boleslas Gajewski, son of Vincent Gajewski (the president of the ˝Committee for study and progress of Solresol˝), was the author of the grammar of the musical language Solresol, published in 1902.

Chaeronea

The fragmentary monument was reassembled and installed in 1902 by an organisation called the Order of Chaeronea atop a pedestal at the site of its discovery.

Club Athletico Paulistano

In 1902 the first championship of São Paulo was held and the São Paulo Athletic club secured the first three titles, with Paulistano being runner up on each occasion.

Coregonus confusus

It was described as Coregonus annectens confusus by Victor Fatio in 1885 from syntypes which have been lost in 1902.

Edward Brocklehurst Fielden

He married firstly, in 1884, Mary Ellen (died 1902), a daughter of Thomas Knowles of Darn Hall, Cheshire, who was M.P. for Wigan, by whom he had three sons and one daughter.

Edward Swann

Swann was elected as a Democrat to the 57th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Amos J. Cummings and served from December 1, 1902, to March 3, 1903.

Former National Westminster Bank

The former National Westminster Bank in Spring Gardens, Manchester, England, is an Edwardian bank building constructed in 1902 for Parr's Bank by Charles Heathcote.

Fred Wheldon

1901 was worse still, as he did not pass 51 in 26 innings, and 1902 was little better, but he returned to form at last in 1903 with 969 runs – the most of his career – including 112 against Somerset.

Freddie Young

Freddie Young OBE, BSC (9 October 1902 - 1 December 1998), (sometimes credited as Frederick A. Young) was one of Britain's most distinguished and influential cinematographers.

Frederick Blackburn

Fred Blackburn (1902–1990), British Labour politician, Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde 1951–1970

Frederick Hamilton

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902), Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India

Frederick Keel

In 1902 Keel married Dora Compton, the second daughter of the English-born German landscape painter and mountain climber, Edward Theodore Compton.

Galt F.C.

Formed in either 1881 or 1882, Galt won the 1901, 1902, and 1903 Ontario Cups, but most notably the 1904 Olympic Football Tournament.

George Barker Stevens

Illinois College awarded him a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1902, and the University of Rochester awarded him a Doctorate in Law the same year.

George Prentiss

George Pepper Prentiss (a.k.a. George Pepper Wilson) (June 10, 1876 – September 23, 1902) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1901 through 1902 for the Boston Americans (1901–02) and Baltimore Orioles (1902).

Gun safety

In 1902, the English politician and game shooting enthusiast Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote some much-quoted verses on gun safety, including many salient points.

H. A. Lorentz

Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928), Dutch physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in 1902

Henning Matzen

He was member of the Landsting from 1879 to 1910, representing the conservative party Højre, and its speaker from 1894 to 1902.

House of Castries

Christian de Castries (1902–1990), general, who commanded the reduced camp at Diên Biên Phu.

Hugo Lederer

His greatest success came in 1902 with the commission for a Bismarck tower in the center of Hamburg.

İsmail Bilen

İsmail Bilen (1902 in Çinçiva village, Vija, Ottoman Empire – November 18, 1983 in East Berlin, GDR) was a Turkish politician.

Jane Gylling

Jane Hilda Charlotta Gylling (born April 6, 1902 in Visby, Gotland – died March 10, 1961 in Örgryte, Västra Götaland) was a Swedish freestyle swimmer.

Joe Duckworth

Joseph Duckworth (1902–1964), USAF pilot, first man to fly into a hurricane

John Alexander McCreery

Miss Ravenshaw, a member of the prominent and noble Ravenshaw Family of England, was a daughter of Charles Withers Ravenshaw, a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Political Service appointed by Queen Victoria who later served as a governor of the British colony of Nepal from 1902-1905.

Joseph Hathaway Cosby

Joseph Hathaway Cosby (June 2, 1902-October, 1998) was the second President of Hargrave Military Academy.

Louis Kugelmann

Louis Kugelmann, or Ludwig Kugelmann (February 19, 1828, Lemförde - January 9, 1902 Hannover) was a German gynecologist, social democratic thinker and activist, and confidant of Marx and Engels.

Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey

Just four years later in 1902 Robert Henry Thurston among others acknowledged, that the heat distribution of the then modern steam engine was best shown by the use of the so-called "Sankey Diagram".

May McNeer

May Yonge McNeer Ward (1902 in Tampa, Florida – 1994 in Reston, Virginia) was an American journalist and author of a variety of subjects, many of which were illustrated by her husband, Lynd Ward, whom she married a week after his graduation from Columbia University in 1926.

Paul Kirk

Paul L. Kirk (1902–1970), American chemist, forensic scientist, and Manhattan Project participant

Pēteris Lauks

Pēteris Lauks (10 February 1902 in Riga - 15 March 1984 in Kitchener, Canada) was a Latvian football defender, one of the most capped footballers for Latvia national football team before World War II.

Pietro Pezzati

Peter S. Pezzati aka Pietro Pezzati (1902 - 1993), American portrait painter

Rechcigl

Miloslav Rechcigl, Sr. (1902 - 1973), a Czech politician, miller, business executive

Robert Coe

Robert Douglas Coe (1902–1985), career diplomat and the U.S. ambassador to Denmark from 1953 to 1957

Rou Shi

Rou Shi was born Zhao Pingfu (赵平复) on 28 September 1902 in Ninghai County, Zhejiang province.

Russalka Memorial

The Russalka Memorial is a bronze monument sculpted by Amandus Adamson, erected on 7 September 1902 in Kadriorg, Tallinn, to mark the ninth anniversary of the sinking of the Russian warship Rusalka, or "Mermaid", which sank en route to Finland in 1893.

Sasso Marconi

In 1902, Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal at Poldhu Cove, Cornwall, UK.

Stefan Inglot

Stefan Inglot (b. March 10, 1902 in Albigowa near Łańcut - January 11, 1994 in Wrocław, Poland) was a Polish historian and a cooperative activist.

Stepan Balmashov

Stepan Balmashov was the assassin of Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Sipyagin, whom he shot on April 2, 1902 (O.S.) in the Mariinsky Palace in St. Petersburg.

SY Morning

The officers that set sail from London in 1902 were: Captain William Colbeck RNR; Rupert G. England, First Officer; Lieutenant E.R.G.R. Evans RN, Second Officer; Gerald Doorly RNR, Third Officer; Sub-Lieutenant G.F.A. Mulock RN, fourth officer; Doctor G.A. Davidson; J.D. Morrison, Chief Engineer; and F. L. Maitland-Somerville and Neville Pepper, both midshipmen.

Thomas Grigg

Born in Maldon to miner Thomas Henry Grigg and Elizabeth Jones, he attended state school before becoming a miner in 1902.

Trekkie Parsons

Trekkie (Ritchie) Parsons (15 June 1902 – 24 July 1995) was an English artist and lithographer, perhaps best known as the lover of Leonard Woolf after his wife Virginia's death.

Walter Travis

The Schenectady Putter was invented by Arthur F. Knight, a General Electric engineer, who created a model reflecting his ideas in the summer of 1902 at his home course, Mohawk Golf Club in Schenectady, NY.

Warsaw Railway Junction

In 1902 the broad gauge Warsaw–Kalisz Railway was constructed on the left bank of the Vistula river connecting Warsaw through Łódź to Kalisz and later extended to the border of the Prussian controlled Province of Posen.

Wye, Kent

On the Downs east of the village is a crown (hill figure) carved in the chalk by students in 1902 to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII.

Yester Grange

In 1902 the estate was purchased by NSW Premier Sir John See.


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