August 1902 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1902 Building begins on Dutch public housing
• 04 Aug 1902 The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
• 08 Aug 1902 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York
• 09 Aug 1902 Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 13 Aug 1902 England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
• 22 Aug 1902 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
• 24 Aug 1902 A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier.
• 30 Aug 1902 In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts again, destroying the town of Morne-Rouge causing 1000 deaths.
• 31 Aug 1902 Split skirt first worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider).

Famous Birthday

• Leni Riefenstahl

  Leni Riefenstahl was a German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer widely known for directing the...

• Norma Shearer

  Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1983).

• Paul Dirac

  English theoretical physicist.

• Emile Buisson

  French criminal, a gang leader sentenced to death and executed in France.

• Felix Wankel

  German research engineer and inventor-developer of the rotary combustion engine, called the Wankel-motor.

• Ogden Nash

  Poet / TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68.

• Zino Francescatti

  French musician, a violin prodigy of international renown.

• Carlos Cachaça
• Fernand Braudel

  French historian and academic (d. 1985).

• Gene Alsace
• Willi O Sucher
• Georges Douking
• Blanche Montel
• Curt Siodmak

  German-American author and screenwriter of such 40's and 50's sci-fi classics as "The Wolf Man" and "I Walked With a Zombie.

• Regina Jonas

  German rabbi (d. 1944).

• Arnold Maria Walter

  Composer.

• Roy Armstrong

  English historian (History of Sussex).

• Paul A M Dirac

  England, United Kingdom -- Physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933).

• Leni Riefenstahl [Helene Bertha Amalie]

  Germany -- Actress (Tiefland).

• Julius Kalas

  Composer.

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Famous Deaths

• Ludwig Beckmann

  Painter.

• August Friedrich Martin Klughardt

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Jean Y Y Tissot

  French Painter / illustrator.

• Mathilde Wesendonk

  German Author / poetess, dies at 73.

• James Tissot

  French painter and illustrator (d. 1902).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Edward M. Favor - On a Sunday Afternoon
2. Len Spencer - Daybreak at Calamity Farm
3. Fred Van Eps - Blaze Away
4. Harry Macdonough - On a Sunday Afternoon
5. Byron G. Harlan - The Mansion of Aching Hearts