August 1902

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The following events occurred in August 1902:

August 1, 1902 (Friday)

100 miners die in a pit explosion in Wollongong, Australia.

August 2, 1902 (Saturday)

Born:Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (d. 1971)

August 4, 1902 (Monday)

Born:Clara Peller, American actress (d. 1987)

August 8, 1902 (Friday)

Born:Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
Died:James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)

August 9, 1902 (Saturday)

Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
Born:Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)

August 10, 1902 (Sunday)

Born:
- Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
- Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

August 11, 1902 (Monday)

Born:
- Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
- Lloyd Nolan, American film and television actor (d. 1985)

August 16, 1902 (Saturday)

Born:Georgette Heyer, British writer (d. 1974)

August 18, 1902 (Monday)

Born:Adamson-Eric, Estonian artist (d. 1968)

August 19, 1902 (Tuesday)

Born:
- Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
- J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)

August 22, 1902 (Friday)

Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
Born:Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)

August 24, 1902 (Sunday)

A statue of Joan of Arc was unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
Born:Carlo Gambino, American gangster (d. 1976)

August 25, 1902 (Monday)

Born:Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)

August 30, 1902 (Saturday)

In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts again, destroying the town of Morne-Rouge causing 1000 deaths.

August 31, 1902 (Sunday)

Died:Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet (b. 1828)

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