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October 2, 1902: The Tale of Peter Rabbit published throughout Britain
October 13, 1902: Ernest Rutherford sends wireless signal to moving train
The following events occurred in October 1902:
October 1, 1902 (Wednesday)
- Dakar replaces Saint-Louis, Senegal, as capital of French West Africa.[1]
- Britain's Royal Navy establishes its Home Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Gerard Noel.[2]
October 2, 1902 (Thursday)
- Beatrix Potter's illustrated children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, is commercially published by Frederick Warne & Co.[3]
- 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 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.[4]
- 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.[5]
October 7, 1902 (Tuesday)
- Born:
- Manfred Flycht, Austro-Hungarian soldier in The Great War, later officer in the Waffen SS for Nazi Germany.(died 1945)
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.[6]
- The first season of the Primera Fuerza football competition begins in Mexico.
October 10, 1902 (Friday)
October 11, 1902 (Saturday)
- The U.S. Open golf tournament is won by Scotland's Laurie Auchterlonie.[8]
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.[9]
- 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,[10]
October 18, 1902 (Saturday)
- Born:
- Miriam Hopkins, US actress, in Savannah, Georgia (died 1972)
- Pascual Jordan, German physicist, in Hanover (died 1980)
October 23, 1902 (Thursday)
- Coal strike of 1902: The anthracite strike ends after 163 days, following an agreement on arbitration.[11]
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[12]
October 26, 1902 (Sunday)
- Russian polar expedition of 1900–02: A group of Russian explorers led by Baron Eduard von Toll leave their camp on Bennett Island and disappear without a trace.
- At the end of the first season of competitive football in Brazil, São Paulo Athletic Club emerge victorious.[13]
- 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.[14]
- Born: Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, in Itabira (died 1987)
References
- Aldrich, Robert (1996). Greater France: a History of French Overseas Expansion. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0-312-16000-3.
- Matthew S. Seligmann, A prelude to the reforms of Admiral Sir John Fisher: the creation of the Home Fleet, 1902–3, Historical Research, 2009
- Taylor, Judy (1996) [1986]. Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman. Frederick Warne. pp. 72, 76. ISBN 0-7232-4175-9.
- "Thousands March At Funeral of Emile Zola: Municipal Guards Line the Route to Preserve Order. Dreyfus Attends After All, Is Unnoticed by the Crowd – Mme. Zola Gave Him Back His Promise to Stay Away – Very Little Disorder". The New York Times. 6 October 1902.
- "Centennial Earthquake Catalog". United States Geological Survey. October 6, 1902. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
- Jim Chliboyko (15 March 2013). "The Altona school shooting of 1902". Spectator Tribune. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- "Auchterlonie Wins Open Championship at Garden City – Travis Ties for Second Place". The Fitchburg Sentinel. Fitchburg, Massachusetts. October 13, 1902. p. 1.
- "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. 2008-11-04. Archived from the original on 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
- "Arrestation du premier assassin confondu par ses empreintes digitales". celebrations nationales. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- James Ford Rhodes, The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations, 1897–1909 (1922) p 246
- "Frank Norris, the novelist, died to-day as the result of an operation for appendicitis performed three days ago". – "Death of Frank Norris," The New York Times, October 26, 1902.
- "País do futebol, Brasil é segunda força no Pan". UOL Esporte. Retrieved January 24, 2008.
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- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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