May 1902 calendar

Events

• 02 May 1902 A Trip To The Moon, the 1st science fiction film released
• 03 May 1902 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75.
• 05 May 1902 The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service.
• 06 May 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
• 07 May 1902 Soufriere volcano on Saint Vincent kills 2-5,000.
• 08 May 1902 In Martinique, Mount Pelee erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
• 13 May 1902 Alfonso XIII of Spain begins his reign.
• 15 May 1902 Lyman Gilmore is first person to fly a powered craft.
• 17 May 1902 Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
• 19 May 1902 Great Britain and Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria.
• 20 May 1902 US military occupation of Cuba (since January 1, 1899) ends.
• 22 May 1902 36th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Mastermam wins in 2:22.6.
• 24 May 1902 Empire Day first celebrated in Britain.
• 27 May 1902 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8.
• 29 May 1902 Dutch State Mine law forms.
• 31 May 1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transvaal.

Famous Birthday

• Paul Azaïs

  French film actor.

• Brian Aherne

  British-American actor, who made his debut in 1923 and became a leading British player within seven years.

• André Lwoff

  French biologist and physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1965.

• Henri Guillaumet

  France sport Champion.

• David O Selznick

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- Producer (Gone With the Wind).

• Alfred Kastler

  French nuclear physicist who discovered and developed the methods for observing Hertzian Resonances in atoms.

• Jan Kiepura

  Sosnowiec, Poland -- Vocalist / actor (Her Wonderful Lie).

• Walter Slezak

  Austrian-American actor who won a Tony award and the N.Y.

• Richard J Daley

  American politician (Born 1902).

• Max Ophuls

  German director and writer (Born 1902).

• Walter Preuss

  German graphologist, professional astrologer, data collector and author.

• Hilda Kirsch

  German-American Jungian analyst and author.

• Jean-Philippe Lauer

  French architect and Egyptologist.

• Peter Marshall

  Scottish ecclesiastic who, as a Presbyterian clergyman, served as the pastor to the U.S.

• Pippo Barzizza

  Italian musician and orchestra conductor.

• Jack La Rue

  TV narrator (Lights Out), dies at 81.

• Hideo Saito (cellist)
• Dorothy Dunbar
• Paul Kohner
• Gladys Monroe
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Famous Deaths

• Almon Strowger

  American inventor (Born 1839).

• John Glover English chemist (production sulfuric acid)

  dies at age 85.

• David R Capriles Cura?aos director of psychiatric

  dies at age 64.

• Bret Harte writer

  dies at age 65.

• Jan van Droogenbroeck Flemish poet

  dies.

• Bret Harte

  American author and poet (d. 1902).

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