News and Events of 1902

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Elie Ducommun and Albert Gobat (Switzerland)

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Enrico Caruso makes his first gramophone recording.
Aswan Dam is completed in central Egypt, becoming the chief means of storing irrigation water for the Nile valley.
Cuba gains independence from Spain.

President: Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President: none
Population: 79,163,000

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Bureau of the Census is established; it later becomes part of the Department of Commerce.
Approximately 150 thousand United Mine Workers strike in Pennsylvania for a wage increase and more suitable hours.

Federal spending:   $0.49 billion
Unemployment:   3.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Montreal AAA

Women: Muriel Robb d. C. Sterry (7-5 6-1)
Men: Laurie Doherty d. A. Gore (6-4 6-3 3-6 6-0)

Alan-a-Dale

Michigan (11-0-0)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Theodor Mommsen (Germany)

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McClure's Magazine prints "Tweed Days in St. Louis" by C.H. Wetmore and Lincoln Steffens. The article introduces the muckraking era.
Claude Debussy introduces impressionism to music in Pelléas and Mélisande at the Opéra Comique in Paris.
Beatrix Potter writes her first Peter Rabbit story.

Chemistry: Emil Fischer (Germany), for experiments in sugar and purin groups of substances

Physics: Hendrik A. Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman (Netherlands), for work on influence of magnetism upon radiation

Physiology or Medicine: Sir Ronald Ross (UK), for work on malaria

Willis H. Carrier designs the first system to control temperature and humidity, inventing modern air conditioning.
The fossils of a Tyrannosaurus rex are discovered by Barnum Brown in Hell Creek, Montana.