May 1902
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May 8, 1902: Mount Pelee erupts, kills the 30,000 residents of Saint-Pierre
May 20, 1902: Republic of Cuba granted limited independence
Saint-Pierre after the eruption
May 8, 1902: The SS Camorta sinks with 737 people onboard
May 31, 1902: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War
May 1, 1902 (Thursday)
- The Canadian Pacific Railway takes over the Ottawa, Northern and Western Railway.[1]
- The 13th County Championship cricket season begins in the UK, with 15 counties competing.[2]
May 2, 1902 (Friday)
- Born: Arturo Licata, Italian supercentenarian, last surviving man born in 1902, in Enna (died 2014)
May 3, 1902 (Saturday)
- Born: Alfred Kastler, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, in Guebwiller (died 1984)
May 5, 1902 (Monday)
- The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service.
- Died: Bret Harte, 65, US writer (throat cancer)[3]
May 6, 1902 (Tuesday)
- British passenger ship SS Camorta sinks while en route from Madras, India, to Rangoon, Burma, after being hit by a cyclone in the Irrawaddy Delta; all 737 passengers and crew lose their lives.[4]
- Born: – Max Ophüls, German film director, in Saarbrücken (died 1957)
- Died: William T. Sampson, 62, US admiral
May 7, 1902 (Wednesday)
- In Saint Vincent, the volcano La Soufrière erupts, devastating the northern portion of the island and killing 2,000 people.[5]
- Died: Agostino Roscelli, 83, Italian priest and Catholic saint, founder of the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata
May 8, 1902 (Thursday)
- In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000.
- Born: André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in Paris (died 1994)
May 10, 1902 (Saturday)
- Born: David O. Selznick, US film producer, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (died 1965)
May 11, 1902 (Sunday)
- In the second round of France's legislative election, the Bloc des gauches alliance of Socialists, Radicals, and the Opportunist Republicans, over the Progressive Republicans. The dearth of seats won by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau's Republicans results in Radical Émile Combes being selected to form a government.[6]
May 12, 1902 (Monday)
- Brazilian inventor Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão, 38, and his companion, French engineer Georges Saché, 25, fly Severo's semi-rigid airship Pax over Paris. They lose control of the aircraft, which catches fire and explodes 1,200 feet over Montparnasse Cemetery, killing both men.[7]
May 13, 1902 (Tuesday)
- The 1902 Copa de la Coronación football competition begins in Spain, the forerunner of the Copa del Rey.
May 15, 1902 (Thursday)
- Lyman Gilmore claims to have flown a steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft on this date; the proof is alleged to have been destroyed in a 1935 fire.[8]
- The final of the Copa de la Coronación football tournament is won by Club Bizcaya, who defeat FC Barcelona 2-1.[9]
- Born: Richard J. Daley, US politician, in Chicago (d. 1976)
May 17, 1902 (Saturday)
- King Alfonso XIII of Spain comes of age and officially begins his reign.[10]
- Valerios Stais identifies the Antikythera mechanism as an astronomical clock; it would later be recognised as a type of ancient analog computer.[11]
May 18, 1902 (Sunday)
- Born: Meredith Willson, US musician, composer and playwright, in Mason City, Iowa (died 1984)
May 20, 1902 (Tuesday)
- Cuba gains independence from the United States, becoming the Republic of Cuba.[12] The 1901 Constitution of Cuba took effect (replaced in 1940).
May 21, 1902 (Wednesday)
- Born:
- Earl Averill, US baseball player, in Snohomish, Washington (died 1983)
- Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian architect, in Pécs (died 1981)
- Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian film director, in Kiev (died 1974)
May 22, 1902 (Thursday)
- White Star Line's latest ship, the SS Ionic, is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.[13]
May 24, 1902 (Saturday)
The Belgian steamer Stanleyville is wrecked off Takoradi, in the British colony of Gold Coast.[14]
May 26, 1902 (Monday)
- Died: Almon Brown Strowger, 62, US inventor (aneurysm)[15]
May 27, 1902 (Tuesday)
- British destroyer HMS Recruit strikes rocks near Cape Cornwall, in thick fog. The ship is refloated and towed into Penzance by tugs.[16]
May 28, 1902 (Wednesday)
- The Pacts of May are signed by representatives of Chile and Argentina in an attempt to resolve territorial disputes.[17]
May 29, 1902 (Thursday)
- Born: Henri Guillaumet, French aviator, in Bouy (dued 1940)
May 31, 1902 (Saturday)
- The Treaty of Vereeniging officially ends the Second Boer War.[18]
- Following a court ruling that the reserve clause in contracts between players and United States National League baseball clubs does not apply to players signed with an American League team,[19]Connie Mack trades Nap Lajoie and Bill Bernhard with the Cleveland Bronchos.[20]
References
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "County Champions 1890–2013 / County Championship". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ↑ Newburgh Daily Journal, May 6, 1902.
- ↑ "Shipping Disasters", The Times, 15 May 1902
- ↑ Frederick Albion Ober, Our West Indian Neighbors: The Islands of the Caribbean Sea, " America's Mediterranean", 2010 republish of 1908 book by Nabu Press ISBN 978-1-145-31194-7 book
- ↑ Gildea, R., Children of the Revolution, London, 2008, p. 278-282
- ↑ Phythyon, John R., Jr., Great War at Sea: Zeppelins, Virginia Beach, Virginia: Avalanche Press, Inc., 2007, p. 41.
- ↑ "The Gilmore Brothers Were Real Pioneers". Popular Aviation. 15 (5): 312. 1934.
- ↑ http://www.athletic-club.eus/en/match-statistics/1_2354/1901-02_bizcaya_fc-barcelona.html
- ↑ "Alfonso's Reign Begins on 17 May; He Will Take the Oath on That Day – Festivities to Last a Week," New York Times, 29 March 1902.
- ↑ Haughton, Brian (2006). Hidden History: Lost Civilizations, Secret Knowledge, and Ancient Mysteries. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-1-56414-897-1. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
- ↑ Louis A. Pérez (1998). Cuba Between Empires: 1878–1902. University of Pittsburgh Pre. p. xv. ISBN 978-0-8229-7197-9. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- ↑ "Ireland. Belfast". The Times (36775). London. 23 May 1902. p. 4.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ Katherine Wilcox Thompson, "Penfield's Past", 1960, pub. by the Town of Penfield, NY, pp 178–179
- ↑ Leach, Nicholas (2003). Sennen Cove Lifeboats. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-3111-0.
- ↑ "Canal de Beagle: El Laudo arbitral de la corona británica" by José Enrique Greño Velasco in Universidad de La Rioja (page 70)
- La Convención sobre limitación de armamentos comprende cinco artículos, y tiene el privilegio de ser—de acuerdo a Rizzo Romano—el primer convenio en su tipo ajustado entre naciones.
- ↑ Meredith, Martin (2007). Diamonds, Gold and War. The Making of South Africa. London, Great Britain: Simon & Schuster. pp. 462–3. ISBN 978-0-7432-8614-5.
- ↑ "American League Celebrates 75th Year". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. Associated Press. January 30, 1975. p. 3C. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ↑ "1902 Cleveland Bronchos Batting, Pitching & Fielding Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
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