July 1902 in History

Events in History

Jul 1 Ranji (230) & Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex v Essex
Jul 1 US Congress passes the Philippines Government Act, providing that the Philippines be governed by a commission appointed by the President, with consent from the senate; Filipinos are to be treated as citizens of their land, no the USA

Event of Interest

Jul 4 Civil government is established in the Philippines by a proclamation from US President Theodore Roosevelt, who offers a general amnesty to insurgents

Event of Interest

Jul 11 British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury resigns

British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

Event of Interest

Jul 12 Arthur Balfour succeeds Lord Salisbury, who retired as British Prime Minister on 11 July

Jul 14 The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta (reconstructed 1912)
Jul 17 Lord Tennyson, son of the poet, is named to succeed Lord Hopetown, first governor general of Australia
Jul 24 In Turkey, the Sultan Abdul-Hamid, under pressure from within the Ottoman Empire, appoints a commission to consider reforms that might pacify Macedonian revolutionaries
Jul 26 Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
Jul 29 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US and Canada forms
Jul 30 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)

Birthdays in History

Jul 1 José Luis Sert, Spanish-American architect and urban developer, born in Barcelona (d. 1983)

Meyer Lansky (1902-1983)

Jul 4 Polish-born American mobster known as the "Mob's Accountant", born in Grodno, Russian Empire

Jul 5 Frank Waters, American writer, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1995)
Jul 5 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (Sen-R) and ambassador (West Germany, Vietnam & UN), born in Nahant, Massachusetts (d. 1985)
Jul 9 Gerhard Pohl, German writer (Crazy Ferdinand), born in Trachenberg, Silesia (d. 1966)
Jul 10 Günther Weisenborn, German writer and German Resistance fighter, born in Velbert (d. 1969)
Jul 10 Jacobus Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist (Terschelling), born in Amsterdam (d. 1935)
Jul 10 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), born in Königshütte, Upper Silesia (d. 1958)
Jul 11 Leo Collard, Belgian controversial minister of Education (1946/54-58), born in Aulnois, Belgium (d. 1981)
Jul 11 Samuel Abraham Gouldsmit, Dutch-American physicist (formulated concept of electron spin), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1978)
Jul 12 Günther Anders, German Jewish philosopher, born in Breslau, German Empire (d. 1992)
Jul 14 Truman J. Hedding, US vice-admiral (WWII) (d. 1995)
Jul 15 Jean Rey, Belgian politician (President of the European Commission 1967-70), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1983)
Jul 16 Alexander Luria, Russian neuropsychologist (Higher Cortical Functions in Man), born in Kazan, Russian Empire (d. 1977)
Jul 17 Christina Stead, Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children), born in Rockdale, Australia (d. 1983)
Jul 25 Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman and author (The True Believer), born in NYC, New York (d. 1983)

Karl Popper (1902-1994)

Jul 28 Austrian-British philosopher (The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Poverty of Historianism), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary

Jul 28 Kenneth F. Fearing, American poet (Dead Reckoning), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1961)

Weddings in History

John Jellicoe

Jul 1 British admiral John Jellicoe (42) weds Gwendoline Cayzer at Holy Trinity in London

Deaths in History

Jul 4 Swami Vivekananda, Indian Hindu spiritual leader and a key figure in the introduction of Yoga to the Western world, dies while meditating at 39
Jul 9 Mark Antokolsky, Russian sculptor (Peter the Great monument) dies at 58
Jul 10 Albert, King of Saxony (1873-1902), dies at 74
Jul 12 Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74
Jul 14 William Still, African-American abolitionist, businessman and conductor of the Underground Railroad, dies at 80
Jul 22 Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal, dies at 79