July 1902 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1902 Ranji (230) and Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex vs. Essex
• 02 Jul 1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of New York Giants (stays for 30 years).
• 03 Jul 1902 Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam
• 08 Jul 1902 John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles
• 10 Jul 1902 The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA kills 112 miners.
• 11 Jul 1902 British Premier Lord Salisbury resigns
• 12 Jul 1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
• 14 Jul 1902 The Campanile in St. Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
• 15 Jul 1902 Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex vs. Surrey
• 16 Jul 1902 John McGraw named manager of New York Giants
• 17 Jul 1902 Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the American League
• 19 Jul 1902 New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
• 21 Jul 1902 Fluminense Football Club is founded in Rio de Janeiro.
• 25 Jul 1902 James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
• 26 Jul 1902 Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
• 29 Jul 1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US and Canada forms
• 30 Jul 1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)

Famous Birthday

• Karl Popper

  Austrian native who emigrated to England, is one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers of science.

• Vittorio De Sica

  Sora, Italy -- Director / actor (2 Women).

• Jean Royère
• William Wyler

  French-American director who made his debut at the age of 25 and, in his first two years, turned out 40 two-reel Westerns.

• Josepha Mendels

  Dutch teacher, journalist, feminist writer, actor and Paris correspondent for Dutch papers.

• Renee Houston

  Scottish writer and an actress of radio, film, stage and vaudeville.

• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
• Cesare Zavattini

  Italian screenwriter, film theoretician and novelist, a former journalist and publisher of short stories in the early '30s.

• Georges Wambst

  French cyclist, and Olympic champion at Paris in 1924.

• Buster Bailey
• Louis Vola

  French jazz double-bassist, accordionist, singer-songwriter, poet and artist.

• Paul Huvelin

  French legal historian and specialist in the study of the earliest forms of Roman law.

• Walter Burle Marx

  Composer.

• Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov

  Composer.

• G Weisenborn

  Writer.

• Dilys Powell

  English writer (Descent from Parnassus).

• Gerard[us M] Rutten

  Director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel).

• Gerhard Pohl

  German writer (Crazy Ferdinand).

• Truman J Hedding

  US Vice-Admiral (WWII).

• Nathalie Sarraute [Cherniak]

  Russian / French playwright.

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Famous Deaths

• Leopoldo Miguez

  Composer, dies at 51.

• Pieter Caland

  Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74.

• Albert FA

  King of Saxon (1873-1902), dies at 74.

• Mark M Antokolski

  Russian / French sculptor, dies at 58.

• Mieczys?aw Halka Ledochowski

  Polish Catholic Cardinal (Born 1822).

• Maria Goretti

  Italian homicide victim, raped and killed by a neighbor when she was an adolescent and died forgiving him.

• Swami Vivekananda

  Indian religious leader, a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna inspired by his teacher to serve men as visible manifestations of God.

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Collins - Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
2. J. Aldrich Libbey - On a Sunday Afternoon
3. J.W. Myers - Nancy Brown
4. Edward M. Favor - On a Sunday Afternoon