WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1902
Find out what all happened August to December 1902

Cadillac Motor Company is founded. (22. August 1902)

A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France. (1. September 1902)

The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu. (14. December 1902)

Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile. (22. August 1902)

Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. (9. August 1902)

American Old West: Kid Curry Logan, second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor. (30. November 1902)

The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39-0, in the first ever professional American football night game. (21. November 1902)

The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5-0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden. (28. December 1902)

In the United States, a five-month strike by United Mine Workers ends. (21. October 1902)

The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens. (4. August 1902)

The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11-0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league. (29. November 1902)

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