January 1902

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)

• The first college football bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl, between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California, under its original title of "Tournament East–West football game".^[1]
• The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses.
• An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 strikes the Fox Islands, Alaska, then a territory of the USA, at a depth of 0.0 km.^[2]
• Several smaller railways combine to form the Swiss Federal Railways.
• Born: Buster Nupen, South African cricketer, in Alesund, Norway (died 1977)
• Died: Bertha Elisabeth Schippan, 13, Australian girl, victim of the "Towitta murder"; the perpetrator is never identified.^[3]

January 2, 1902 (Thursday)

• Born: Dan Keating, Irish republican, longest-surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence, in Castlemaine, County Kerry (died 2007)^[4]

January 5, 1902 (Sunday)

• Mrs. Warren's Profession, a controversial play dealing with prostitution, written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, is performed for the first time, privately, at the New Lyric Club in London, UK.^[5]

January 8, 1902 (Wednesday)

• A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17 people and injures 38, leading to increased demand for electric trains and to the banning of steam locomotives in New York City.

January 9, 1902 (Thursday)

• Discovery Expedition: An expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, arrives in Cape Adare, East Antarctica. Other members of the expedition include Ernest Shackleton, Tom Crean, Frank Wild and Edgar Evans.
• Born:
  • Sir Rudolf Bing, Austrian opera manager, in Vienna (died 1997)
  • Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and Catholic saint, in Barbasto (died 1975)
  • Ann Nixon Cooper, African-American civil rights activist, in Shelbyville, Tennessee (died 2009)

January 10, 1902 (Friday)

• New Zealander Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's first registered nurse.^[6]
• A German record for the longest balloon flight is set by meteorologist Arthur Berson and balloonist Hermann Elias, when they complete a 30-hour journey of 1,470 kilometers (913 miles) from Berlin, Germany, to Poltava in the Russian Empire.

January 11, 1902 (Saturday)

• Born: Maurice Duruflé, French composer, in Louviers (died 1986)
• Died: Johnny Briggs, 39, English cricketer (epileptic seizure)^[7]

January 12, 1902 (Sunday)

• The Uddevalla Suffrage Association, a Swedish political movement, is officially dissolved after twelve years of activity.^[8]
• Born: King Saud of Saudi Arabia, in Kuwait City (died 1969)

January 15, 1902 (Wednesday)

• Born: Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet, in Salonica, Ottoman Empire (died 1963)

January 16, 1902 (Thursday)

• A earthquake of magnitude 7.0 strikes Guerrero, Mexico. Two people are killed and two injured.^[9]
• Underground public toilets are opened at Amagertorv, a central square in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[10]
• Born: Eric Liddell, Scottish athlete, in Tianjin, China (died 1945)

January 17, 1902 (Friday)

• The Times Literary Supplement is published for the first time in the UK.
• German-born US aviator Gustave Whitehead claims to have made two notable flights over Long Island Sound in a 40 hp- 29.9-kW- engine-powered flying machine with wheels and an amphibious boat-shaped hull.^[11]

January 19, 1902 (Sunday)

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

January 20, 1902 (Monday)

• Born:
  • Kevin Barry, Irish republican, in Rathvilly, County Carlow (died 1920)
  • Leon Ames, US actor, in Portland, Indiana (died 1993)

January 21, 1902 (Tuesday)

• Admiral Winfield Scott Schley appeals to President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States over his actions during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.^[12]

January 22, 1902 (Wednesday)

• Born: Daniel Kinsey, US Olympic hurdler, in St Louis, Missouri (died 1970)

January 23, 1902 (Thursday)

• Hakkōda Mountains incident: A snowstorm in the Hakkōda Mountains, northern Honshu, Japan, kills 199 soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army during a training exercise. It was the largest disaster in the history of mountaineering.^[13]
• Australia defeat England by 4 wickets in the 3rd cricket test match at the Adelaide Oval.^[14]

January 24, 1902 (Friday)

• Born: Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, US archaeologist and biblical scholar, in Skalat, Galicia, now Ukraine (died 1965)

January 25, 1902 (Saturday)

• Born:
  • André Beaufre, French general, in Neuilly-sur-Seine (died 1975)
  • Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect, in Manila (died 1975)^[15]

January 26, 1902 (Sunday)

• Born: Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist, in Eibergen (died 1940)

January 28, 1902 (Tuesday)

• The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C., with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• In the Dewsbury by-election, brought about by the resignation of British Liberal MP Mark Oldroyd, Walter Runciman retains the seat for the Liberal Party.

January 30, 1902 (Thursday)

• The Discovery Expedition discovers land at the eastern extremity of the Great Ice Barrier, as predicted by James Clark Ross. The land is christened King Edward VII Land.^[16]
• A doublet earthquake strikes the east coast of Aomori Prefecture, Honshu, Japan.^[17]
• At Lansdowne House, London, Britain's foreign secretary) and Japan's minister in London sign the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, which brings an end to the UK's policy of "splendid isolation".^[18]

January 31, 1902 (Friday)

• Born:
  • Tallulah Bankhead, US actress, in Huntsville, Alabama (died 1968)
  • Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, in Uppsala (died 1986)

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