Important Historical Events of the year 1902, Year 1902 in History

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List of 1902 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1902

What happened in the year 1902?

Date	Event
January 1, 1902	The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
January 28, 1902	The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
January 30, 1902	The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
February 27, 1902	Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
March 7, 1902	Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
March 18, 1902	Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
April 2, 1902	Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Mariinsky Palace, Saint Petersburg.
April 2, 1902	"Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
April 5, 1902	A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland and England.
April 18, 1902	The 7.5 Mw  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000.
April 20, 1902	Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 8, 1902	In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
May 17, 1902	Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
May 20, 1902	Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
May 31, 1902	Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
June 28, 1902	The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
July 14, 1902	The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
July 17, 1902	Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
August 9, 1902	Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 22, 1902	The Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
August 22, 1902	Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
August 22, 1902	At least 6,000 people are killed by the magnitude 7.7 Kashgar earthquake in the Tien Shan mountains.
October 24, 1902	Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
November 21, 1902	The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeat the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first-ever professional American football night game.
December 10, 1902	The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
December 14, 1902	The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
December 28, 1902	The Syracuse Athletic Club defeat the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
December 30, 1902	The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a Farthest South at 82°17′S in Antarctica.