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1902 ( MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1902nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 902nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1900s decade.
For other uses, see Langston Hughes (disambiguation). James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem ...
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May 20 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. May 22 – Crater Lake National Park is established in Oregon. June 2 – The coal strike of 1902 begins in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. June 13 – Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, predecessor of global consumer goods brand 3M, begins trading as a mining ...
Swami Vivekananda (/ ˈ s w ɑː m i ˌ v ɪ v eɪ ˈ k ɑː n ə n d ə /; Bengali: [ʃami bibekanɔndo] ⓘ; IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda ; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta (Bengali: [nɔrendronatʰ dɔto]), was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic ...
13 February – the 1902 World Figure Skating Championships held in London. 7 March – Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men. 2 April – first performance of William Butler Yeats 's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan in Dublin. [3]
Albert Einstein in 1947. Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born American Jewish scientist. He worked on theoretical physics. He developed the theory of relativity. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for theoretical physics.
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. ( / ˈstaɪnbɛk /; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Some of his most famous works are Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), which won a Pulitzer Prize.
