June 1902

June 15, 1902: The 20th Century Limited begins service

June 12, 1902: Suffragette Mary Lee lives to see Australia grant women the right to vote

June 19, 1902: King Albert of Saxony dies after a 28-year reign

The following events occurred in June 1902:

June 2, 1902 (Monday)

• Coal strike of 1902: A strike by anthracite miners in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, escalates as maintenance employees join the industrial action by the United Mine Workers of America.^[1]
• Edward Elgar's latest composition, Land of Hope and Glory (adapted from one of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Marches with lyrics by A. C. Benson) is performed in public for the first time, by Clara Butt.^[2]
• In the election for the governor of the US state of Oregon, Democrat George Earle Chamberlain is victorious with 46.17% of the vote.^[3]
• The Congregation of Christian Brothers celebrates its centenary with High Mass at Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, United States.

June 3, 1902 (Tuesday)

June 4, 1902 (Wednesday)

• Eight miners are killed in an accident at Fochrhiw Colliery, Dowlais, Wales, UK.^[4]

June 5, 1902 (Thursday)

• The 1902 Open Championship golf tournament is won by Harry Vardon.^[5]

June 7, 1902 (Saturday)

• The Thomas Wilson, a US whaleback freighter operating in the Great Lakes, collides with the steamer George Hadley and sinks in minutes, with the loss of its cargo and nine crew members.^[6]
• Italy takes possession of a concession in Tientsin, China, installing a consul.^[7]

June 8, 1902 (Sunday)

• US President Theodore Roosevelt asks the Commissioner of Labor, Carroll D. Wright, to look into the ongoing coal strike and seek possible solutions. When the employers refuse to negotiate, Roosevelt is dissuaded from intervening.^[8]

June 9, 1902 (Monday)

• Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 is performed in its entirety for the first time, at Krefeld in Germany, conducted by the composer.

June 10, 1902 (Tuesday)

• Thomas Thornycroft's statue of Boadicea and Her Daughters, erected on Victoria Embankment, is made visible to the public by removal of the surrounding hoardings, without an official unveiling. The sculptor had died 17 years earlier.^[9]
• Died:
  • Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
  • Auguste Schmidt, German educator and activist (b. 1833)

June 11, 1902 (Wednesday)

• An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia.^[10]
• In Japan, the Chūō Main Line, Ochanomizu to Shiojiri railway line is officially completed.

June 12, 1902 (Thursday)

• The Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 receives Royal Assent, granting universal suffrage for federal elections in Australia for British subjects over 21 years of age who have lived in Australia for six months. This made Australia the second country to grant women's suffrage at a national level and the first to allow women to stand for Parliament. However, indigenous people from Australia, Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands (with the exception of Māori) were disqualified.^[11]
• An Australian schooner, the Advance, drifts onto rocks at Henrys Head, Botany Bay, New South Wales. The captain is killed but the other three crew members succeed in reaching the shore.^[12]

June 13, 1902 (Friday)

June 15, 1902 (Sunday)

• The New York Central Railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City.

June 16, 1902 (Monday)

• In a letter to Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell describes a mathematical problem; it will later become known as Russell's paradox.^[13]
• In the final of the 1902 Norwegian Football Cup, Grane defeat Odd 2-0.
• Born: Barbara McClintock, US geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in Hartford, Connecticut (died 1992)
• Bloomsday: James Joyce, Irish author. The day commemorated in "Ulysses" whose main character is Leopold Bloom. Also the day when James Joyce met and fell in love with Nora Barnacle.

June 17, 1902 (Tuesday)

• The 20th Century Limited passenger train makes its first journey from New York to Chicago, shaving four hours off the previous journey time. Aimed at business travellers, it offers such services as a barbershop and secretarial services.^[14]
• Norwich City Football Club is formed as a result of a meeting at the Criterion Cafe in Norwich, UK.^[15]

June 18, 1902 (Wednesday)

• HMAS Encounter, a British Royal Navy cruiser, is launched at HM Dockyard Devonport. Lady Sturges Jackson, wife of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Sturges Jackson, Admiral-Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard, performs the ceremony.^[16]
• Died: Samuel Butler, 66, English novelist^[17]

June 19, 1902 (Thursday)

• Died: King Albert of Saxony, 74, a member of the royal House of Wettin (b. 1828)

June 22, 1902 (Sunday)

• Born: Henri Deglane, French wrestler, in Limoges (died 1975)

June 23, 1902 (Monday)

• The 1902 Wimbledon tennis tournament opens at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, UK.^[18]
• Hurricane Two makes landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, resulting in winds of 70 mph.^[19]

June 24, 1902 (Tuesday)

• Died: George Leake, 45, Premier of Western Australia, of pneumonia, the only Western Australian premier ever to die in office^[20]

June 26, 1902 (Thursday)

• King Edward VII of the United Kingdom institutes the Order of Merit. Membership is restricted to 24 Commonwealth citizens at any one time.^[21] Notable people honoured in the 1902 Coronation Honours include Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, who receives a peerage, and composer Hubert Parry, who receives a baronetcy.
• Born: Hugues Cuénod, Swiss operatic tenor, in Corseaux-sur-Vevey (died 2010)

June 27, 1902 (Friday)

• In the U.S. National women's tennis championship, held in Philadelphia, Marion Jones defeats reigning champion Elisabeth Moore 6–1, 1–0, to win the singles title, after Moore is taken ill and forced to concede.^[22]
• Galveston, Texas, USA, experiences a daily rainfall record as a result of Hurricane Two.^[19]

June 28, 1902 (Saturday)

• The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy, originally formed in 1882, is renewed.^[23]
• The Norwegian barque, Gustav Adolph, is wrecked in a gale off the coast of South Africa. Four people lose their lives - the ship's captain, two crew members and a passenger.^[24]
• Born: Richard Rodgers, US composer, in New York City (died 1979)

June 29, 1902 (Sunday)

• The "Paris-Vienna Trail" motor race is won by Marcel Renault (France) driving a Renault in a time of 15:47:43. The race is in retrospect sometimes referred to as the VII Grand Prix de l'ACF.^[25]

June 30, 1902 (Monday)

• The 1902 Colonial Conference is opened by Joseph Chamberlain in London, UK, to discuss Imperial Preference, whereby a system of free trade agreements between Dominions and colonies within the British Empire might be introduced.^[26]

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