October 1902

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October 2, 1902: The Tale of Peter Rabbit published throughout Britain
October 13, 1902: Ernest Rutherford sends wireless signal to moving train

The following events occurred in October 1902:

October 1, 1902 (Wednesday)

October 2, 1902 (Thursday)

October 3, 1902 (Friday)

October 5, 1902 (Sunday)

  • The funeral of French novelist Émile Zola, who died a week earlier in mysterious circumstances, takes place at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. It is attended by thousands, including Alfred Dreyfus, whose innocence Zola had protested.[4]
  • Born:
    • Larry Fine, US actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 1975)
    • Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (McDonald's), in Oak Park, Illinois (died 1984)

October 6, 1902 (Monday)

October 7, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • Born:
    • Manfred Flycht, Austro-Hungarian soldier in The Great War, later officer in the Waffen SS for Nazi Germany.(died 1945)

October 9, 1902 (Thursday)

  • In Altona, Manitoba, Canada, Henry Toews, a teacher at the Mennonite School, shoots one or more colleagues and three children before wounding himself; he would survive another three months but died before a trial could be arranged. Only one of his victims, Anna Kehler, dies as a result of the shooting.[6]
  • The first season of the Primera Fuerza football competition begins in Mexico.

October 10, 1902 (Friday)

  • The Japanese steamer Yoshina Maru is abandoned after catching fire in the Van Diemen Strait. The ship drifts ashore at Kagoshima, Japan.[7]

October 11, 1902 (Saturday)

October 13, 1902 (Monday)

October 16, 1902 (Thursday)

  • The first Borstal (youth offenders' institution) opens in Borstal, Rochester, Kent, U.K.
  • In Paris, the murder of a servant is discovered, leading to the arrest of the murderer, Henri-Léon Scheffer, through fingerprint identification,[10]

October 18, 1902 (Saturday)

October 23, 1902 (Thursday)

October 24, 1902 (Friday)

October 25, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Born: Eddie Lang, US jazz guitarist, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 1933)
  • Died: Frank Norris, 32, US novelist, of peritonitis, following surgery on a burst appendix[12]

October 26, 1902 (Sunday)

October 31, 1902 (Friday)

References

  1. Aldrich, Robert (1996). Greater France: a History of French Overseas Expansion. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0-312-16000-3.
  2. Matthew S. Seligmann, A prelude to the reforms of Admiral Sir John Fisher: the creation of the Home Fleet, 1902–3, Historical Research, 2009
  3. Taylor, Judy (1996) [1986]. Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman. Frederick Warne. pp. 72, 76. ISBN 0-7232-4175-9.
  4. "Thousands March At Funeral of Emile Zola: Municipal Guards Line the Route to Preserve Order. Dreyfus Attends After All, Is Unnoticed by the Crowd – Mme. Zola Gave Him Back His Promise to Stay Away – Very Little Disorder". The New York Times. 6 October 1902.
  5. "Centennial Earthquake Catalog". United States Geological Survey. October 6, 1902. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  6. Jim Chliboyko (15 March 2013). "The Altona school shooting of 1902". Spectator Tribune. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  7. "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  8. "Auchterlonie Wins Open Championship at Garden City – Travis Ties for Second Place". The Fitchburg Sentinel. Fitchburg, Massachusetts. October 13, 1902. p. 1.
  9. "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. 2008-11-04. Archived from the original on 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
  10. "Arrestation du premier assassin confondu par ses empreintes digitales". celebrations nationales. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  11. James Ford Rhodes, The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations, 1897–1909 (1922) p 246
  12. "Frank Norris, the novelist, died to-day as the result of an operation for appendicitis performed three days ago". – "Death of Frank Norris," The New York Times, October 26, 1902.
  13. "País do futebol, Brasil é segunda força no Pan". UOL Esporte. Retrieved January 24, 2008.
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