Top News Stories from 1902

World Events

• Enrico Caruso makes his first gramophone recording.
• Aswan Dam is completed in central Egypt, becoming the chief means of storing irrigation water for the Nile valley.
• Cuba gains independence from Spain.

U.S. Events

• Bureau of the Census is established; it later becomes part of the Department of Commerce.
• Approximately 150 thousand United Mine Workers strike in Pennsylvania for a wage increase and more suitable hours.

Economics

Sports

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• McClure's Magazine prints "Tweed Days in St. Louis" by C.H. Wetmore and Lincoln Steffens. The article introduces the muckraking era.
• Claude Debussy introduces impressionism to music in Pelléas and Mélisande at the Opéra Comique in Paris.
• Beatrix Potter writes her first Peter Rabbit story.

Science

• Willis H. Carrier designs the first system to control temperature and humidity, inventing modern air conditioning.
• The fossils of a Tyrannosaurus rex are discovered by Barnum Brown in Hell Creek, Montana.

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