March 1902

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March 6, 1902: Real Madrid F.C. founded in Spain
March 1, 1902: Alves elected President of Brazil
March 10, 1902: Thomas Edison's monopoly on motion pictures ended
Vice President-elect Brandão, who won't survive to be sworn in

The following events occurred in March 1902:

March 1, 1902 (Saturday)

March 2, 1902 (Sunday)

March 3, 1902 (Monday)

  • Born: Allalou (pen name for Ali Sellali), "The Father of Algerian Theatre", Algerian playwright; in Algiers

March 4, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • The U.S. Department of the Navy ordered the transfer of all U.S. Navy shore properties in Cuba to the control of Governor-General Leonard Wood, who, in turn, would transfer the properties to control of the Republic of Cuba [3]
  • A tidal wave struck the coast of Central America, causing a great loss of life [3].
  • Through the efforts of the National Civic Federation, the strike against National Cash Register was ended in Dayton, Ohio [3].

March 5, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Ten months after ironworkers had gone on strike in San Francisco, the walkout was settled. Although the demand for a nine-hour workday was not agreed to, the ironworkers received some concessions [3].
  • Died:

March 6, 1902 (Thursday)

  • Real Madrid, one of the most valuable professional sports franchises in the world, was founded as Madrid Football Club.
  • The Spanish Treaty Claims Commission ruled against American claimants seeking damages for the 1898 destruction of the battleship USS Maine in Havana harbor [3].
  • Prince Henry of Prussia, on the first state visit by German royalty to the United States, received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University [3].
  • Died:
    • Moritz Kaposi, 64, Hungarian physician and dermatologist who first identified the skin cancer now called Kaposi's sarcoma
    • Worthy S. Streator, 85, American railroad and coal mining entrepreneur who created the Atlantic and Great Western Railway and the Vermilion Coal Company. The company town, Streator, Illinois, was named in his honor.
    • Neil Bryant (Cornelius O'Neill), 72, American minstrel show performer who continued the "Bryant's Minstrels" show into the early 80s after the death of founder Dan Bryant.

March 7, 1902 (Friday)

  • The Boers won their last major victory over the British of the Second Boer War, at the Battle of Tweebosch. British Army General Paul Sanford Methuen and 200 of his men were forced to surrender to Boer General J. H. de la Rey in the Western Transvaal. General Methuen was wounded, but was quickly released from imprisonment [4]
  • A permanent United States Bureau of the Census was created by law [3].
  • The U.S. steamer Waesland collided with the British steamer Harmonides off the coast of Anglesey, United Kingdom and sank; two passengers were killed.[5]
  • Born:
  • Died:
    • Christian Fenger, 61, pioneering American surgeon who refining techniques for the hysterctomy, for cleft palate repair, and for the safe removal of tumors from the spinal cord
    • Gaetano Casati, 63, Italian explorer of Africa
    • Pud Galvin, 45, American baseball player and Hall of Famer

March 8, 1902 (Saturday)

March 9, 1902 (Sunday)

March 10, 1902 (Monday)

March 11, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • Prince Henry of Prussia departed New York City [3].
  • In the Queensland state election, Robert Philp's Ministerial Party were returned with a reduced majority. It was the first Queensland state election where voting was completed on a single day.[10]
  • The lower house of Denmark's Parliament, the Riksdag, ratified the treaty to sell the Danish West Indies to the United States [3].

March 12, 1902 (Wednesday)

March 13, 1902 (Thursday)

March 14, 1902 (Friday)

  • The U.S. Senate, meeting in executive, closed-door session, unanimously ratified the Hague Peace Conference treaty of 1899 [3].
  • Born: Archduke Gottfried of Austria, in Linz (died 1984)

March 15, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Born: Carla Porta Musa, Italian essayist and poet, in Como (died 2012)
  • Died: Sir Richard Temple, 76, British colonial administrator who worked at alleviating famine in Bombay in the 19th century.

March 16, 1902 (Sunday)

  • Five remaining members of the crew of the barge Wadena, and seven of their eight rescuers from the Monmoy Station, were drowned in a storm when the rescue barge was capsized by a wave off of the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts. [11]

March 17, 1902 (Monday)

March 18, 1902 (Tuesday)

March 19, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • The Populist Party, which had been a major American third party to rival the Republicans and Democrats during the 1890s, disbanded by merging back to the Democratic Party [13]. At its height in 1897, the Populists had 22 seats in the House of Representatives and five in the Senate.
  • The Ottoman Empire rejected a demand from the United States for reimbursement for the $72,000 ransom paid to Bulgarian rebels for the release of missionaries Stone and Tsilka [13].
  • Denmark's Volksthing, the upper house of parliament, voted to ratify the treaty selling the Danish West Indies to the United States [13].

March 20, 1902 (Thursday)

March 21, 1902 (Friday)

March 22, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Thirty-four striking employees of the Rothschild Petroleum Company at Batum were killed by Russian soldiers [13].
  • U.S. Attorney General Philander C. Knox issued an opinion that the public lands of Puerto Rico were federally-owned United States property [13].

March 23, 1902 (Sunday)

March 24, 1902 (Monday)

  • Born: Thomas Dewey, American politician who was the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in 1944 and 1948; in Owosso, Michigan (died 1971)
  • Died: Salomon Mandelkern, 72, Ukrainian Jewish poet and author

March 25, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • The U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove Democrat Congressman John S. Rhea of Kentucky from office after determining that Republican John McKenzie Moss had won the 1900 election [13]. Moss was sworn in, but would be defeated for re-election by Rhea in November.
  • Leonard Wood, the U.S. Governor-General of Cuba, was directed by President Roosevelt to transfer administration of the island to the government of the new Republic of Cuba on May 20 [13].

March 26, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Cecil Rhodes, a British businessman who was one of the wealthiest men in the world, died at the age of 48 from heart disease. Born in 1853 in England, he had moved to southern Africa because of his health problems, he built his fortune as the owner of the mines of the British South Africa Company and served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. His company established the southern African territory of Rhodesia (which later became Zimbabwe and Zambia). In his will, he funded the Rhodes Scholarship that has provided scholarships to the University of Oxford for thousands of international students. [15]

March 27, 1902 (Thursday)

March 28, 1902 (Friday)

  • Delegates to the constitutional convention for a new state constitution for Virginia voted to adopt three provisions to deter African-American participation. In addition to a poll tax of $1.50 starting in 1904, existing voters were to be subjected to a "literacy test" of reading, understanding and explaining a section of the new state constitution to the satisfaction of a county examiner— persons who had served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, however, were exempt from the test, as were their sons, setting an example of a "grandfather clause" that would be enhanced by other southern states [13].
  • Born: Dame Flora Robson, 82, English actress, in South Shields, County Durham (d. 1984)
  • Died: Georg Herbert Münster, 81, Germany's ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1873 to 1885, and France from 1885 to 1900.

March 29, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Although U.S. senators were elected by their state senates rather than by the public prior to 1913, the party nominees for the state senate to choose from were chosen in a party primary election. In Arkansas, incumbent U.S. Senator James K. Jones lost to his challenger for the Democratic Party nomination, white supremacist and former Governor James P. Clarke[13].
  • Bulgaria's government expelled U.S. diplomat Charles M. Dickinson as persona non grata for his comments regarding the case of missionary Ellen Stone [13].
  • Born:
  • Died: Sir Andrew Clarke, 77, British Army lieutenant general and colonial administrator. He served as Governor of Singapore and later as Governor of the Straits Settlements which included Singapore, and the Malaysian states of Malacca, Dinding, and Penang.

March 30, 1902 (Sunday)

March 31, 1902 (Monday)

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References

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  2. Coleman, Charles L. (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.
  3. The American Monthly Review of Reviews (April, 1902), pp. 410-413
  4. Stephen M. Miller, Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen-soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007)
  5. "The Sinking of the Waesland". Norway Heritage. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  6. "Second Symphony Op. 43 (1902)". sibelius.fi. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  7. Early Armoured Cars E. Bartholomew, p.4
  8. Gougaud, p.11-12
  9. "This Month in Railroad History – March". Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. Archived from the original on 17 April 2006. Retrieved March 10, 2006.
  10. "Queensland General Election Dates 1860–1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  11. Janet M. Daly, Images of America: Chatham (Arcadia Publishing, 2002) p31
  12. Carman Miller, Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993) pp414-415
  13. The American Monthly Review of Reviews (May, 1902), pp. 538-541
  14. The Grand National 1839–1930 by David Hoadley Munroe
  15. "Death of Mr. Rhodes". The Times. 27 March 1902. p. 7.
  16. "1902 » 7th Paris – Roubaix". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  17. Nicholas Capaldi, The Enlightenment Project in the Analytic Conversation (Springer, 1998) p41
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