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March 6, 1902: Real Madrid F.C. founded in Spain
March 1, 1902: Alves elected President of Brazil
March 10, 1902: Thomas Edison's monopoly on motion pictures ended

The following events occurred in March 1902:

March 1, 1902 (Saturday)

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March 2, 1902 (Sunday)

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March 3, 1902 (Monday)

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March 4, 1902 (Tuesday)

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March 5, 1902 (Wednesday)

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  • Ten months after ironworkers had gone on strike in San Francisco, the walkout was settled. Although the demand for a nine-hour workday was not agreed to, the ironworkers received some concessions.[5]
  • Died:

March 6, 1902 (Thursday)

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March 7, 1902 (Friday)

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March 8, 1902 (Saturday)

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March 9, 1902 (Sunday)

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  • Real Madrid played its first match of soccer football, an intra-squad game between two teams composed of club members. "Club B" beat "Club A", 6 to 0. After reorganization of the squads, a second match was played later in the day with "Club A" winning, 1 to 0, over "Club B".[11]
  • Austrian classical music composer Gustav Mahler married pianist and composer Alma Schindler.[12] The two had two children (including sculptor Anna Mahler) and remained together until Mahler's death in 1911.
  • Born: Will Geer, American actor known for the TV show The Waltons; in Frankfort, Indiana (d. 1978)

March 10, 1902 (Monday)

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March 11, 1902 (Tuesday)

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March 12, 1902 (Wednesday)

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  • Debreceni VSC, one of the most successful soccer football teams in Hungary, was founded in the Austro-Hungarian city of Debrecen as Egyetértés Futball Club. It would later be renamed for the Debrecen Railway as Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club.
  • Died: John Peter Altgeld, 54, American political reformer and former Governor of Illinois, died after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage during a speech (b. 1847)

March 13, 1902 (Thursday)

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March 14, 1902 (Friday)

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March 15, 1902 (Saturday)

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March 16, 1902 (Sunday)

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  • Five remaining members of the crew of the barge Wadena, and seven of their eight rescuers from the Monomoy Station, were drowned in a storm when the rescue barge was capsized by a wave off of the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts.[16]

March 17, 1902 (Monday)

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March 18, 1902 (Tuesday)

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March 19, 1902 (Wednesday)

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March 20, 1902 (Thursday)

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March 21, 1902 (Friday)

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March 22, 1902 (Saturday)

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March 23, 1902 (Sunday)

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March 24, 1902 (Monday)

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New Zealand

March 25, 1902 (Tuesday)

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March 26, 1902 (Wednesday)

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  • Russian novelist Maxim Gorky's first play, The Philistines (Meschane), premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski and Vasily Luzhsky.
  • American lawyer Albert T. Patrick was convicted of the 1900 murder of one of his clients and sentenced to executed in the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing maximum security penitentiary. Patrick's appeal delayed the carrying out of the death penalty and his sentence would be commuted in 1906 by the Governor to life imprisonment, followed by a pardon in 1912 by another New York governor. The former death row inmate would return to the practice of law but be disbarred in 1930.
  • Died: Cecil Rhodes, 48, a British businessman who was one of the wealthiest men in the world, died from heart disease. He had moved to southern Africa because of his health problems, and built his fortune as the owner of the mines of the British South Africa Company and served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. His company established the southern African territory of Rhodesia (which later became Zimbabwe and Zambia). In his will, he funded the Rhodes Scholarship that has provided scholarships to the University of Oxford for thousands of international students.[25]

March 27, 1902 (Thursday)

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March 28, 1902 (Friday)

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March 29, 1902 (Saturday)

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March 30, 1902 (Sunday)

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March 31, 1902 (Monday)

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References

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  2. ^ Coleman, Charles L. (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup. Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.
  3. ^ Snyder, John P. (1969). The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968. New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography. p. 229.
  4. ^ Donna B. Ernst, The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012) p. 137
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j The American Monthly Review of Reviews (April, 1902), pp. 410-413
  6. ^ Stephen M. Miller, Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen-soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007)
  7. ^ "The Sinking of the Waesland". Norway Heritage. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
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  9. ^ Early Armoured Cars E. Bartholomew, p.4
  10. ^ Gougaud, pp. 11-12
  11. ^ "110 años del primer partido del Real Madrid". ABC.es. 9 March 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  12. ^ Oliver Hilmes, Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler (Northeastern University Press, 2015)
  13. ^ "This Month in Railroad History – March". Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. Archived from the original on 17 April 2006. Retrieved March 10, 2006.
  14. ^ "Queensland General Election Dates 1860–1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  15. ^ "Science and Invention: The Suppression of Dust", in The Literary Digest (August 23, 1902), p. 222
  16. ^ Janet M. Daly, Images of America: Chatham (Arcadia Publishing, 2002) p. 31
  17. ^ Miller, Carman (1993). Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 414–415.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n The American Monthly Review of Reviews (May, 1902), pp. 538-541
  19. ^ The Grand National 1839–1930 by David Hoadley Munroe
  20. ^ "Bud Fisher and al Smith Cartoons an inventory of their cartoons at Syracuse University".
  21. ^ Whittlesey, Lee H. (2014). Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park. Roberts Rinehart Publishers. p. 40. ISBN 9781570984518 – via Google Books.
  22. ^ "Police Officer John J. Ryan, Philadelphia Police Department, Pennsylvania". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  23. ^ Mulholland, Malcolm (2016). New Zealand Flag Facts (PDF). New Zealand Flag Consideration. p. 66.
  24. ^ "WORKMAN DROPS 168 FEET FROM EAST RIVER BRIDGE. George Shauer Is Drowned Before Boats Reach Him—Foreman Says Police Patrol Boat Had No Guard" (PDF). The New York Times. 25 March 1902. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  25. ^ "Death of Mr. Rhodes". The Times. 27 March 1902. p. 7.
  26. ^ Juliet Piggott, Famous Regiments: Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Leo Cooper Ltd, 1975) p. 38
  27. ^ "1902 » 7th Paris – Roubaix". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  28. ^ Nicholas Capaldi, The Enlightenment Project in the Analytic Conversation (Springer, 1998) p. 41