September 1902

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September 13, 1902: Tinker, Evers and Chance team up for a double play for the first time
September 1, 1902: French sci-fi film A Trip to the Moon premieres in Paris

The following events occurred in September 1902:

September 1, 1902 (Monday)
  • The classic silent film, Le Voyage dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon), is released at Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, France, by actor/producer Georges Méliès, and proves an instant success.[1]

September 2, 1902 (Tuesday)

September 3, 1902 (Wednesday)
  • Operative William Craig of the United States Secret Service died in a collision between a street car and the President's carriage.

September 4, 1902 (Thursday)

September 5, 1902 (Friday)

September 6, 1902 (Saturday)
  • Died:
    • Sir Frederick Abel, 75, British chemist
    • Hammerton Killick, 46, admiral in the Haitian Navy, drowned after blowing up his ship to avoid surrendering to the German warship SMS Panther[4]

September 7, 1902 (Sunday)

September 8, 1902 (Monday)
  • In the Italian town of Candela, five people are killed and ten injured when 400 peasants involved in a wage dispute block local roads; violence erupts and troops fire at the strikers.[6]
  • The US state of Maine holds its election for the House of Representatives.

September 9, 1902 (Tuesday)

September 10, 1902 (Wednesday)

September 11, 1902 (Thursday)

September 12, 1902 (Friday)
  • Born: Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, 21st President of Brazil, in Diamantina, Minas Gerais (died 1976)

September 13, 1902 (Saturday)

September 14, 1902 (Sunday)

September 15, 1902 (Monday)

September 16, 1902 (Tuesday)

September 17, 1902 (Wednesday)
  • Opera singer Nellie Melba arrives in Brisbane, Queensland, at the start of her first Australian tour, having spent the previous 16 years in Europe.[10]

September 18, 1902 (Thursday)

September 19, 1902 (Friday)

September 20, 1902 (Saturday)

September 21, 1902 (Sunday)

September 22, 1902 (Monday)
  • The Mariana Islands are struck by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake, which causes major damage on Guam and Saipan.[13][14]
  • In Canada, the Canadian Pacific Railway, through its subsidiary, the Ottawa, Northern and Western Railway, acquires the Pontiac and Pacific Junction Railway.[15]
  • Born: John Houseman, British-American actor and producer, in Bucharest, Romania, under the name Jacques Haussmann (died 1988)

September 23, 1902 (Tuesday)
  • Born: Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Romanian politician, Prime Minister 1961–74, in Bucharest (died 2000)

September 24, 1902 (Wednesday)
  • Bailundo Revolt: A column of colonial soldiers from Luanda, led by Pedro Massano de Amorim, enters Bailundo fort in readiness for anticipated attack.
  • Born: Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shia cleric, in Khomeyn (died 1989)

September 25, 1902 (Thursday)

September 26, 1902 (Friday)

The town of Catania, Sicily suffers flooding after a cyclone hits the island's east coast.[16] In the city of Modica, 300 people are reported killed,[17] and the cathedral of Belpasso collapses, with another 600 deaths resulting.[18]

September 27, 1902 (Saturday)

Collingwood Football Club are winners of the Victorian Football League Grand Final, defeating Essendon Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in front of a record crowd of 35,000.[19]

September 28, 1902 (Sunday)

September 29, 1902 (Monday)

September 30, 1902 (Tuesday)
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References
  1. Hammond, Paul (1974), Marvellous Méliès, London: Gordon Fraser, p. 141, ISBN 0-900406-38-0
  2. Smith, Matthew (October 20, 2014). Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469617985.
  3. "Barca otd (on this day)". barcaotd.tumblr.com. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  4. Haiti: A Slave Revolution: 200 years after 1804. International Action Center. September 2004. ISBN 978-0974752105. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
  5. Alsiö, Martin; Frantz, Alf; Lindahl, Jimmy; Persson, Gunnar, eds. (2004). 100 år: Svenska fotbollförbundets jubileumsbok 1904–2004, del 2: statistiken. Vällingby: Stroemberg Media Group. ISBN 91-86184-59-8.
  6. Soldiers Kill Strikers; Five Persons Dead and Ten Wounded as the Result of a Clash in Italy, The New York Times, September 10, 1902
  7. P. G. Wodehouse, Over Seventy (1957), pp. 19–21, and 24–27
  8. Beavan, Colin. Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science. New York: Hyperion, May 2001. ISBN 0-7868-6607-1
  9. Singer, Tom (June 25, 2008). "Power of poem immortalizes Cubs trio: Tinker to Evers to Chance flourished in early 1900s". MLB.com. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  10. Jim Davidson. "Melba, Dame Nellie (1861–1931)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  11. Negro Dead Number 115. No White People Killed in the Birmingham Panic., New York Times, September 20, 1902, retrieved January 6, 2015
  12. Beichman, Janine (2002), Masaoka Shiki: his life and works (revised ed.), Cheng & Tsui, p. 20, ISBN 0-88727-364-5
  13. "19020922 GUAM: AGANA". National Geophysical Data Center. September 22, 1902. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  14. "M7.5 – Alamagan region, Northern Mariana Islands". United States Geological Survey. September 22, 1902. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  15. "Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. November 4, 2008. Archived from the original on April 27, 2006. Retrieved November 20, 2008.
  16. Hundreds Killed by a Cyclone In Sicily; Great Destruction Wrought at Modica and Catania, The New York Times, September 27, 1902
  17. The Cyclone In Sicily Is Still Raging; Hundreds of Bodies of the Dead Have Been Recovered, The New York Times, September 28, 1902
  18. Six Hundred Dead In Sicily; That Number of Bodies Already Recovered, The New York Times, September 30, 1902
  19. Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0
  20. http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1869-1910
  21. "The Strange Death of Emile Zola". History Today Volume 52. 9 September 2002. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
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