WHAT HAPPENED IN 1902.
Look what happened the 1902.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8 fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, County Galway, Ireland in the Galway Bay drowning tragedy. (4. May 1902)

Macario Sakay establishes the Tagalog Republic with himself as President. (6. May 1902)

In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast. (8. May 1902)

Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer. (17. May 1902)

Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President. (20. May 1902)

Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa. (31. May 1902)

King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation. (24. June 1902)

The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal. (28. June 1902)

The Campanile in St. Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta. (14. July 1902)