January 1902

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January 30, 1902: Scott's Discovery Expedition reaches the Great Ice Barrier in Antarctica
The Carnegie Institution
January 28, 1902: Andrew Carnegie endows the Carnegie Institution for Science

The following events occurred in January 1902:

January 1, 1902 (Wednesday)

January 2, 1902 (Thursday)

January 3, 1902 (Friday)

January 4, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Tzu Hsi, the Empress Dowager of China, issued an imperial edict directing her subjects to resume friendly relations with foreign diplomatic personnel in Beijing.[3]
  • Martial law was declared in Barcelona by the government of Spain after labor strikes began.[3]
  • The Panama Canal Company offered to sell its property rights, franchises and equipment to the United States government for $40,000,000.[3]

January 5, 1902 (Sunday)

January 6, 1902 (Monday)

  • Nineteen people were killed in a collision between a British ship and a Spanish ship off of the coast of Portugal.[3]
  • Died: Jean de Bloch (Ivan Stanislavovich Blokh), 67, Polish-born Russian industrialist and political scientist who wrote about the future of warfare

January 7, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • By a margin of only 394 votes, Republican Montague Lessler defeated Democrat Perry Belmont to fill a vacancy for the U.S. representative seat for the normally Democrat Seventh New York District.[3]
  • Died:Edward Clark, 79, Architect of the Capitol since 1865, who oversaw the completion of the U.S. Capitol dome and technological improvements including the addition of electricity, steam radiators and elevators.

January 8, 1902 (Wednesday)

January 9, 1902 (Thursday)

January 10, 1902 (Friday)

  • New Zealander Ellen Dougherty became the world's first registered nurse.[7]
  • A German record for the longest balloon flight was set by meteorologist Arthur Berson and balloonist Hermann Elias, when they completed a 30-hour journey of 913 miles (1,469 km) (913 miles) from Berlin in the German Empire, to Poltava in the Russian Empire.
  • The German imperial government announced that Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the owner and operator of the Krupp Arms Manufacturing Company, was the wealthiest man in the German Empire, with an annual income of 20,000,000 marks (equivalent to USD $5,000,000 in 1902 and more than $150 million or €135 million per year in 2019) l.[3]

January 11, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Born: Maurice Duruflé, French composer, in Louviers (died 1986)
  • Died:
    • Johnny Briggs, 39, English cricketer, from an epileptic seizure [8]
    • Horace Scudder, 63, American journalist, historian and children's author, known for being editor of The Atlantic Monthly and for the standard American school textbook A History of the United States of America

January 12, 1902 (Sunday)

January 13, 1902 (Monday)

  • What one author describes as "the first wave of Korean immigration" to the United States [10] began with the arrival of the steamer S.S. Gaelic in the U.S. Hawaii Territory, carrying 102 emigres from the Kingdom of Korea. Over the next three years, a total of 7,291 Korean laborers would arrive by ship to work in Hawaiian sugar plantations, until Japan's assumption of protectorate status over Korea and the closing off of emigration.
  • Friedrich Delitzsch, a professor of Assyriology at the University of Berlin, began his series of controversial lectures that he titled Babel und Bibel, referring to the ancient Kingdom of Babylon (called "Babel" by the ancient Hebrews) and the Bible. Delitzsch advanced his theory, based on his own research archaeological research of ancient cuneiform records, that Judaism and the Old Testament were derivative of Steven L. Danver, Babylonian culture Popular Controversies in World History: Investigating History's Intriguing Questions [4 volumes]: Investigating History's Intriguing Questions (ABC-CLIO, 2010)
  • Born: Karl Menger, Austrian-born American mathematician who postulated Menger's theorem; in Vienna (d. 1985)

January 14, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • Arthur P. Gorman was elected as the U.S. Senator for Maryland by the Maryland state legislature.[3]

January 15, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Fifteen of the 16 nations meeting at the Pan-American Congress in Mexico City, including the United States, signed their agreement to recognize the principles of compulsory arbitration of international disputes as outlined in the Hague Convention.[3] Chile announced earlier that it would withdraw from the Pan-American Congress if compulsory arbitration was adopted.
  • Joseph B. Foraker was elected as the U.S. Senator for Ohio by the Ohio state legislature.[3]
  • Born: Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet, in Salonica, Ottoman Empire (died 1963)
  • Died: Alpheus Hyatt, 63, American zoologist and paleontologist

January 16, 1902 (Thursday)

January 17, 1902 (Friday)

January 18, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Died:
    • Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, 52, U.S.-born British politician who had served in the House of Lords for more than 20 years
    • Gideon Scheepers, 23, a leader of raids by the Orange Free State into the Britain's Cape Colony during the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, was executed by a British Army firing squad.

January 19, 1902 (Sunday)

  • Died: Maria Cristina, 68, Infanta of Portugal and Spain

January 20, 1902 (Monday)

January 21, 1902 (Tuesday)

January 22, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Born: Daniel Kinsey, U.S. Olympic hurdler, in St Louis (died 1970)

January 23, 1902 (Thursday)

January 24, 1902 (Friday)

January 25, 1902 (Saturday)

January 26, 1902 (Sunday)

January 27, 1902 (Monday)

  • General Manie Maritz of the South African Republic and his party of soldiers were attacked by a group of coloured residents of Leliefontein, in the north of Britain's Cape Colony, to ask questions of the Methodist missionaries there. Martiz retreated, then came back the next day and carried out the Leliefontein massacre, summarily shooting or bludgeoning at least 30 members of the population in retaliation for the offense [19]

January 28, 1902 (Tuesday)

January 29, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • The birthday of William McKinley, the late U.S. President, was observed across the United States for the first time since his assassination in September.[20] For several decades, McKinley's birthday, though not a holiday, would be observed as "Carnation Day" [21] because the 25th U.S. President had traditionally worn a red carnation in the lapel [22] Although the tradition would fade after McKinley's 100th birthday in 1943,[23] the event was informally observed as late as 2017.[24]

January 30, 1902 (Thursday)

January 31, 1902 (Friday)

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  20. "M'Kinley's Birthday— Chicago and Other large Cities Observe the Occasion in Fitting Manner— National Holiday Suggested", Alton (IL) Telegraph, January 30, 1902, p1
  21. "'Twas Carnation Day— Those Who Remembered McKinley's Birthday Caused a Demand for the Flower", Minneapolis Journal, January 29, 1903, p6
  22. "This is Carnation Day— President McKinley's Birthday to Be Recognized by Flower", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 29, 1911, pS-6
  23. "House Members Honor McKinley On Birthday Eve", Baltimore Sun, January 29, 1943, p3
  24. "Ohio Statehouse remembers McKinley with carnation day", Washington Times, January 30, 2017
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