July 1902

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The following events occurred in July 1902:

July 1, 1902 (Tuesday)

• Born:William Wyler, American film director (d. 1981)

July 4, 1902 (Friday)

• Born:
  • Vince Barnett, American actor (d. 1977)
  • Meyer Lansky, Russian-born American mobster (d. 1983)
  • George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and politician (d. 1992)
• Died:Swami Vivekananda, Indian religious leader (b. 1863)

July 5, 1902 (Saturday)

• Erik Gustaf Boström returns as Prime Minister of Sweden.

July 6, 1902 (Sunday)

• Died:Maria Goretti, Italian Catholic saint (b. 1890)

July 8, 1902 (Tuesday)

• Service of Reclamation within U.S. Geological Survey.
• Born:
  • Richard Barrett Lowe, American governor of both Guam and American Samoa (d. 1972)
  • Gwendolyn Bennett, American writer (d. 1981)

July 10, 1902 (Thursday)

• The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, Pennsylvania kills 112 miners.
• Born:Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

July 11, 1902 (Friday)

• Lord Salisbury retires as British prime minister.
• The Order of the Garter is conferred on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

July 12, 1902 (Saturday)

• The Twentieth Century Limited set a train speed-record on a run between New York City and Chicago.
• Arthur James Balfour replaced the retiring Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

July 14, 1902 (Monday)

• St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses.

July 16, 1902 (Wednesday)

• Born:Alexander Luria, Russian neuropsychologist (d. 1977)

July 17, 1902 (Thursday)

• Willis Carrier installed a system at a Brooklyn printing plant to control humidity, temperature, ventilation, and the cleanliness of the air (this is now considered as the 1st true air conditioning).

July 18, 1902 (Friday)

• Ethel Smyth’s opera Der Wald was performed at Covent Garden before a glittering audience including members of the royal family. The press was generally positive, and the public was ecstatic. A participant would later characterize this as “the only real blazing theater triumph I have ever had.”

July 21, 1902 (Monday)

• Fluminense Football Club is founded in Rio de Janeiro.
• Born:Joseph Kesselring, American playwright (d. 1967)

July 28, 1902 (Monday)

• Born:
  • Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
  • Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (d. 1959)

July 30, 1902 (Wednesday)

• The militia was used restore order in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania during a coal miners’ strike.
• The 6th annual Bible Institute began at Earlham College. Elbert Russell, Fellow in the Graduate Divinity School of the University of Chicago, would be delivering the following lectures:

×−Paul’s Correspondence with the Corinthians

×−Christian Ethics — Conscience

×−Christian Ethics — Teaching of Jesus

×−Christian Ethics — Teaching of Paul

×−Christian Ethics — The Present Day’s Duties

×−Abraham and Lot

×−Esau and Jacob

×−Gideon and Saul

×−Peter and Judas

×−The American Revised Version

July 31, 1902 (Thursday)

• Born:Randolph E. Haugan, American author, editor and publisher (d. 1985)

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