April 1902

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April 5, 1902: Ibrox Stadium stands collapse during England-Scotland match, 25 killed, 517 injured
April 11, 1902: South African Army fights last disastrous battle against the British

The following events occurred in April 1902:

April 1, 1902 (Tuesday)

April 2, 1902 (Wednesday)

April 3, 1902 (Thursday)

  • Lobbied by the American dairy industry, the U.S. Senate voted, 39 to 31, to pass a bill putting additional taxes on the butter substitute oleomargarine.[2]
  • Died:
    • Esther Hobart Morris, 87, American suffragist judge
    • General D. J. E. "Maroola" Erasmus, South African Boer general.

April 4, 1902 (Friday)

April 5, 1902 (Saturday)

April 6, 1902 (Sunday)

  • Will Reynolds, an African-American railroad employee who was being served with a warrant for a five dollar charge account, killed the sheriff of Colbert County, Alabama and five deputies, along with one bystander, before being killed by a party of law enforcement officers [6]
  • Born: F. L. Green, British novelist, in Portsmouth (d. 1953)
  • Died: Robert Owen, 81, Welsh theologian.

April 7, 1902 (Monday)

  • The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the Chinese Exclusion Bill. The Senate rejected any changes to existing law nine days later.[2]
  • Commandant Kritzinger was acquitted of charges in the court-martial by the British Army.[2]
  • Died: Metody Patchev, 26, Bulgarian revolutionary. Patchev had entered Kadino Selo with six other revolutionaries, not realising that Ottoman troops were stationed in the village. Recognising the hopelessness of their situation, he killed his friends and committed suicide.[7]

April 8, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • Russia and China signed a treaty for Russian withdrawal of troops from Manchuria over in three stages taking place between July 1902 and January 1904.[2]
  • A partial solar eclipse was visible from the Earth.
  • Born:
    • Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer, in Birkenhead (died 1924)
    • Josef Krips, Austrian conductor and violinist, in Vienna (died 1974)
  • Died: The Earl of Kimberley, 76, former British Foreign Secretary

April 9, 1902 (Wednesday)

April 10, 1902 (Thursday)

  • The Belgian general strike of 1902 began, the second general strike in the country's history.[10]
  • France and Venezuela resumed diplomatic relations, which had been terminated in 1895.[2]

April 11, 1902 (Friday)

  • In the Battle of Rooiwal, the last major battle of the Second Boer War, a commando team led by General Jan Kemp attacked a larger force under Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kekewich. The British soldiers had a positional advantage and inflicted severe losses on the Boers, effectively ending the war in Western Transvaal.[11]
  • Tenor Enrico Caruso made the first million-selling recording, for the Gramophone Company in Milan.
  • A earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the south end of Lake Baykal, Russia. No injuries were recorded.[12]
  • Died: Wade Hampton III, 84, former Confederate Army lieutenant general and one of the largest slaveholders in the American south prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.

April 12, 1902 (Saturday)

April 13, 1902 (Sunday)

  • A new car speed record of 74 mph (119 km/h) was set in Nice, France, by Léon Serpollet.
  • The Belgian steamer Legia collided with another steamer off the Newarp Lightvessel and sank.[14]

April 14, 1902 (Monday)

April 15, 1902 (Tuesday)

April 16, 1902 (Wednesday)

April 17, 1902 (Thursday)

  • Longshoremen in Copenhagen went on strike and refused to load or unload ships arriving in Denmark.[2]
  • Tomas Estrada Palma departed from the United States, where he held citizenship, on a voyage to Cuba where he was to be inaugurated as President.[2]

April 18, 1902 (Friday)

April 19, 1902 (Saturday)

April 20, 1902 (Sunday)

April 21, 1902 (Monday)

April 22, 1902 (Tuesday)

April 23, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • The Mount Pelée volcano in Martinique began erupting, raining cinders on its southern and western side.[21] The volcano's deadly eruption would happen 15 days later.
  • By a small majority, Denmark's upper house of Parliament approved the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States[18].
  • Born: Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate, in Reykjavik (died 1998)

April 24, 1902 (Thursday)

April 25, 1902 (Friday)

  • Born: Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and war criminal, in Forst (Lausitz) (died 1964)
  • Died: Agostino Riboldi, 63, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Ravenna

April 26, 1902 (Saturday)

April 27, 1902 (Sunday)

April 28, 1902 (Monday)

  • Four officers of USS Chicago were sentenced to short jail terms in an Italian jail for creating a disturbance in Venice. [18]
  • Born: Johan Borgen, Norwegian author, in Oslo (died 1979)

April 29, 1902 (Tuesday)

April 30, 1902 (Wednesday)

gollark: Icecast migration complete and successful.
gollark: Thusly, none are safe and it should work better.
gollark: osmarks internet radio™ is now to be served via icecast.
gollark: ++data get geometry
gollark: ++data get bismuth

References

  1. Encyclopedia Britannica. "British East Africa". chestofbooks. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  2. The American Monthly Review of Reviews (May, 1902), pp. 538-541
  3. Clark, Mary (Spring 2000). "Freedom of the City of Dublin". Dublin Historical Record. Old Dublin Society. 53 (1): 33–37. JSTOR 30101245.
  4. Sheils, Robert (November 1998). "The fatalities at the Ibrox disaster of 1902" (PDF). The Sports Historian. British Society of Sports History. 18 (2): 148–155. doi:10.1080/17460269809445801.
  5. Larner, Gerald (1996). Maurice Ravel. London: Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-3270-7, pp. 60 and 227
  6. "'Colbert's Worst Tragedy' Occurred 70 Years Ago", Florence (AL) Times, June 24, 1971, p4
  7. Писма и изповеди на един четник,XXVI,Хр.Силянов,1902 г.
  8. Meredith, Martin (2007). Diamonds, Gold and War. The Making of South Africa. London, Great Britain: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-8614-5.
  9. Badsey-Ellis, Antony (2005). London's Lost Tube Schemes. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-293-3.
  10. Merkx, Kris; Deruette, Serge (1999). La Vie en Rose: Réalités de l'Histoire du Parti socialiste en Belgique. Brussels: EPO. ISBN 2872621474.
  11. Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., London 1979, ISBN 0-297-77395-X (pp. 556=560)
  12. "Centennial Earthquake Catalog". United States Geological Survey. April 11, 1902. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  13. Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  14. "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  15. "Thomas L. Tally, Film Pioneer, Dies. Producer First Signed Mary Pickford, Chaplin. A Founder of First National Pictures". New York Times. November 25, 1945.
  16. Tucker, Spencer C., ed. (2009). The encyclopedia of the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars: a political, social, and military history. Volumes I-III. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 217. ISBN 978-1-85109-951-1.
  17. "M7.5 – Guatemala". United States Geological Survey. April 19, 1902. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  18. The American Monthly Review of Reviews (June, 1902), pp. 667-671
  19. Strikwerda, Carl (1997). A House Divided: Catholics, Socialists, and Flemish Nationalists in Nineteenth-century Belgium. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780847685271.
  20. McGuire, James; Quinn, James (2009). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Volume II. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy-Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-63331-4.
  21. Scarth, Alwyn (2002). La Catastrophe: The Eruption of Mount Pelee, the Worst Volcanic Eruption of the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-19-521839-6.
  22. Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth (1999). Queen Sālote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900–1965. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2529-4. OCLC 262293605.
  23. "Scottish Cup final: Rangers 2–3 Hibernian". BBC Sport. BBC. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  24. David Bull & Bob Brunskell (2000). Match of the Millennium. Hagiology Publishing. pp. 30–33. ISBN 0-9534474-1-3.
  25. L'année Politique 1902, by André Daniel, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1903
  26. Department of Information Services (9 June 2009). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
  27. Nichols, Roger and Richard Langham Smith (eds.) Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (Cambridge Opera Handbooks, Cambridge University Press, 1989) ISBN 0-521-31446-1
  28. April rainfall over Australia
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