February 1902 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1902 Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben" premieres in Berlin.
• 11 Feb 1902 Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
• 15 Feb 1902 Underground railway (U-Bahn).
• 18 Feb 1902 Opera Hunchback of Notre Dame, premieres in Monte Carlo
• 20 Feb 1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco.
• 21 Feb 1902 Dr Harvey Cushing, first US brain surgeon, does his first brain operation.
• 24 Feb 1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit Boer General De la Rey beats British.
• 27 Feb 1902 Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
• 28 Feb 1902 Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo.

Famous Birthday

• Charles Lindbergh

  American pilot and author, the most famous hero of his day for his flight from New York to Paris on 20 May 1927 which earned him the...

• John Steinbeck

  American famed writer of best-selling novels that were made into films.

• Charles Lindbergh

  American pilot and author, the most famous hero of his day for his flight from New York to Paris on 20 May 1927 which earned him the...

• Gertrud Scholtz-Klink

  German Nazi, the Women's League leader in the Third Reich who emphasized Nazi slogan, "children, church, kitchen.

• Vercors (writer)
• Langston Hughes

  American writer, an important figure in Harlem renaissance.

• Ansel Adams

  American photographic artist, the most significant figure in photography in the 20th century and one of the finest technicians in the...

• Gabriel Péri

  French Communist journalist and politician, and member of the French Resistance.

• Lucio Costa

  Brazilian architect and urban planner.

• Walter H Brattain

  US physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85.

• Herma Szabo
• Gene Sarazen

  Harrison, New York -- PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 32).

• Hugo Haas

  Brno, Czechoslovakia -- Actor / director (2 Smart People).

• Fred Scott

  Fresno, California -- Vocalist / actor (Vincent Lopez).

• Oscar Cullmann

  Switzerland -- Theologist (Das Petrusproblem).

• Stella Adler

  New York, United States -- Actress (My Girl Tisa).

• Max Kommerell

  German literary / author (Die Gefangenen).

• Hanns Neupert

  German piano builder / author (Das Klavichord).

• Chester H Lauck

  Allene, Arkansas -- Actor (Dreaming Out Loud, 2 Weeks to Live).

• Lyle Talbot [Lysle Hollywood]

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- Actor (Glen or Glenda).

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Famous Deaths

• Salomon Jaoassohn composer

  dies at age 70.

• Emanuil Mandlov composer

  dies at age 42.

• Isaac Fransen van der Putten Dutch Prime Minister (1866)

  dies.

• J N Krieger German Selenographer

  dies.

• Wilhelmina JR Albregt-Engelman Dutch actress

  dies at age 68.

• Samuel R Gardiner British historian (Oliver Cromwell)

  dies at age 72.

• Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf composer

  dies at age 77.

• Charles Lewis Tiffany

  American founder of Tiffany & Co.

• Peter Handcock

  Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (Born 1869).

• Harry 'Breaker' Morant

  Anglo-Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (Born 1864).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Jere Mahoney - For Old Times' Sake
2. Jules Levy - Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
3. Arthur Collins & Joe Natus - Tell Me, Dusky Maiden
4. S. H. Dudley - While the Leaves Came Drifting Down
5. Bert Williams - The Fortune Telling Man