The Biologics Control Act took effect in the United States after being passed by Congress in the wake of the deaths of 13 children (starting on October 26, 1901) from a tainted serum that had been intended to treat diphtheria. The new law authorized the United States Public Health Service to inspect producers and test their medicines, as well as to require the first expiration dates to be placed on health products.[4]
The first national anthem of the Korean Empire, commissioned by the Emperor Gojong, was presented to the imperial court by German composer Franz Eckert, the hymn's author as director of the Korean military band. It would be performed for the first time on September 9, 1902.
Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli) was discovered as a distinct species by explorer C. W. Campbell, who collected the first specimen for taxonomists, in Inner Mongolia, near the village of Shaborte.[7]
Adolphe Alexandre Chaillet received the first patent for the "Shelby lamp", invented by him in 1897 while in the employ of the Shelby Electric Works in Shelby, Ohio.
Died:Swami Vivekananda, 39, Indian religious leader, during meditation practice. He had previously predicted that he would not reach the age of forty.[16]
At least 500,000 dinners were served to Londoners to celebrate the Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra, in an exercise supervised by Sir Thomas Lipton even though the ceremony had been postponed until August because of the King's illness.[17]
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order forbidding federal civil service employees from using outside influence in attempts to get promoted.[2]
July 6, 1902 (Sunday)
Maria Goretti, an 11-year-old girl living in Ancona in Italy, died the day after she was fatally stabbed by an 18-year-old neighbor, Alessandro Serenelli, when she resisted his romantic advances. Before dying, Maria forgave her killer. Serenelli went to prison for 27 years and, after his release, would ask for and receive forgiveness from Maria's mother, Assunta Goretti.[18] Serenelli would enter a monastery and become well known as Father Stephano. He and Mrs. Goretti lived to see the beatification of Maria.[19] After verification of miracles attributed to her, the canonization of Saint Maria Goretti by Pope Pius XII would take place on June 24, 1950.[20]
Joseph Chamberlain, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, sustained head injuries in an accident while a passenger in a horse-drawn carriage and under convalescent care for the next 10 days. A historian would later note of Chamberlain that "during that time two events took place which, if he had been up and about, might conceivably have taken a different turning." The British Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, chose the moment of Chamberlain's absence to resign and to ask KingEdward VII to appoint Salisbury's nephew, Lord Balfour, as his successor.[21]
The Columbia Amusement Company, which set the standard for the traveling burlesque shows for the next 25 years, was formed at the Columbia Theatre in New York City.[25] The "Columbia Wheel" guaranteed a rotating series of burlesque acts to travel a circuit of theaters, with new companies starting tours each month.
Rose Isabel Spencer, the wife of English aeronautStanley Spencer became the first woman to pilot a motorized aircraft. Mrs. Spencer guided Spencer's balloon airship successfully around Crystal Palace in London.[28][29]
Born: Josef Toufar, Czech Roman Catholic priest who was persecuted by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia as part of a campaign to discredit organized religion, in Arnolec, Bohemia (d. 1950)
July 15, 1902 (Tuesday)
The Australian ghost town of Shuttleton, New South Wales was founded by several copper mining companies for their employees, and was virtually uninhabited 40 years later after the companies had closed.[30]
The town of Lonsdale, Minnesota was created by auction of 80 acres of lots platted out for sale by the Milwaukee Land Company and corporate owner Thomas Wilby, in order to create a train depot and a stop on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway.[33] One hundred years later, the population had grown from 271 people to almost 1,500, and the population now is over 4,200.
American engineer Willis Carrier successfully submitted his plans for the first modern air conditioning system to be installed, with the first practical means of controlling humidity in addition to the other functions of cooling, circulating and cleansing the air.[34] The first Carrier system was installed during the summer at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company premises in Brooklyn, New York and refined. Carrier filed a patent application for his invention, "Apparatus for treating air", on September 16, 1904, and U.S. Patent No. 808,897 was granted on January 2, 1906.[35] and, in 1915, founded the Carrier Engineering Corporation, one of the world's largest manufacturers of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems.
Armitage Trail (pen name for Maurice R. Coons), American crime and detective fiction author known for his 1929 novel Scarface, adapted to film in 1932 and in 1983, in Madison, Nebraska (d. 1930 from heart failure)
Ali bin Hamud was proclaimed as the eighth Sultan of Zanzibar, two days after the death of his father, the Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed.[2] Alexander Stuart Rogers, a British colonial official, was appointed as the regent for the Sultan until Ali reached the age of 21.[39]
A German excursion steamer, Primus, sank in the Elbe River after being cut in two accidentally by a Hamburg America Line tugboat, Hansa, and 101 of the 206 people on board drowned.[41]
Club Olimpia, the first professional soccer football team in Paraguay, was founded in Asunción by Dutch merchant William Paats. It would win 38 league championships in its first 100 years of existence and three South American championships in the Copa Libertadores competition.
General Anténor Firmin, who had attempted to lead a revolution in Haiti for the formation of a union of Caribbean states, was declared an outlaw by the government of President Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal.[41]
The first major libel case of the 20th century was prompted by the publication, in the Philadelphia North American newspaper, of a false report that Cheyenne Indian Chief White Buffalo had been arrested and was awaiting trial for the murder of three white women as part of a hate crime. The story, written by W. R. Draper of Wichita, Kansas, was purchased from Draper by the newspaper and then reprinted in other newspapers across the United States. White Buffalo and the founder of the Carlisle Indian School traveled to Philadelphia to refute the article and the North American printed a retraction, as well as filing criminal charges and a civil suit against Draper as a deterrent against other people who would submit a false article.[45]
Died:Gustave Trouvé, 63, French electrical engineer who invented miniature and less heavy electric motors and batteries, died from sepsis after accidentally cutting his thumb and index finger while working on his final invention for ultraviolet light therapy for treatment of skin diseases. (b. 1839)
July 28, 1902 (Monday)
President José Santos Zelaya of Nicaragua commuted the death sentence imposed on an American physician, Dr. Russell Wilson, by a Nicaraguan military court after Wilson had conspired with revolutionists to overthrow President Zelaya's government.[41]
The United Kingdom withdrew all of its claims to sovereignty over the Bay Islands off of the coast of Honduras, recognizing Honduran sovereignty over the six islands of Utila, Roatán, Guanaja, and several smaller islands.[41]
The militia was used to restore order in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, after a street fight between striking coal miners and police, which resulted in at least one death.[47]
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