WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1902
Find out what all happened January to April 1902

The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California. (1. January 1902)

Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride. (20. April 1902)

"Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California. (2. April 1902)

Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg. (2. April 1902)

Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war. (7. March 1902)

The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. (28. January 1902)

James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. (13. April 1902)

Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake. (18. April 1902)

Real Madrid C.F. was founded. (6. March 1902)

Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria. (27. February 1902)

The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London. (30. January 1902)