1902

Events

Real World: February 18. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt uses the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to prosecute the Northern Securities Company.

Real World: March 7. The Boers win their last battle of the Boer War, wherein they capture a British general and 200 of his troops.

Real World: March 10. Thomas Edison loses a court case that could have granted him a monopoly on motion-picture technology.

Real World: April 2. The first motion picture theater in the United States, the "Electric Theatre," opens.

Real World: May 17. The Antikythera Mechanism is discovered off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera by archaeologist Spyridon Stais.

Real World: May 20. Cuba becomes independent from the United States.

Real World: May 31. The Second Boer War ends with the Peace of Vereeniging.

Real World: June 12. The Commonwealth Franchise Act of 1902 grants British subject women the right to vote (excepting Aborigines, Asians, Africans and Pacific Islanders).

Real World: July 11. Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, retires.

Births

• Dominic Dracon ( Gargoyles, Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles)
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New Fictional Works

Notable Books

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Notable movies

Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon).

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