U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt narrowly escaped death in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, after a streetcar collided with the carriage in which he was riding. Roosevelt's bodyguard, agent William Craig of the United States Secret Service was killed.[4][3] President Roosevelt was only slightly injured, but developed an abscess on his leg that forced him to abandon his cross-country tour on September 23 and to return for medical treatment.[5]
September 4, 1902 (Thursday)
The first completely electric railway line, the 66 miles (106 km) Ferrovia della Valtellina, began operations in Italy, using a 3,000-volt alternating current system designed by Hungarian engineer Kálmán Kandó and a team from the Ganz Works in Budapest.[6]
Voting concluded in Denmark for the Landstinget, the upper house of Denmark's bicameral legislature. Under an indirect system, male voters selected electors who, in turn, voted for the persons to fill 27 of 53 elective seats (26 of which were partway through their terms) in the 66-seat body, which had 13 persons appointed by the King. The electors, in turn, voted on September 19.
In Australian rules football, the first-ever interleague competition between the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and its relatively-new rival Victorian Football League (VFL) as two all-star teams played a charity match to raise money for Melbourne's Fred McGinis, who had played in both leagues. The VFL defeated the VFA by a score of 9-17 to 4-3 (equivalent to 71 to 27).[8]
September 5, 1902 (Friday)
The United Kingdom and the Chinese Empire signed a commercial treaty.[3]
The provisional government of Haiti, led by president Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal, faced overthrow as government troops were overcome by rebels.[3]
Admiral Hammerton Killick of the Haitian Navy, 46, drowned after blowing up his gunboat, Crete-a-Pierrot, to avoid surrendering to the German warship SMS Panther.[10][3]
The Yacolt Burn, a forest fire that killed 65 people over five days in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington, began near Eagle Creek on the Oregon side of the Columbia River that separates the two states.[12] The immediate cause of the blaze was traced to a group of boys who had been attempting to burn a nest of hornets.
In the town of Candela, Italy five people were killed and ten injured when 400 peasants involved in a wage dispute blocked local roads. Violence erupted and troops fired at the strikers.[13]
September 9, 1902 (Tuesday)
Cuba's House of Representatives voted, 48 to 2, to become indebted to the United States for a $55 million loan, payable over 50-years with a variable interest rate not to exceed five percent per annum.[3]
Russian officials in the Primorye region (modern territories of Amur Oblast and Primorsky Krai) a portion of Manchuria that had been annexed by the Russians in 1860, began the expulsion of all foreigners from the area, other than the indigenous Chinese residents.[3]
John Malarkey became the first, and only baseball pitcher to earn a win, not by holding the opposing team to a lesser score, but by hitting the game-winning home run. Pitching in the National League for the Boston Beaneaters (now the Atlanta Braves), Malarkey had held the St. Louis Cardinals to three runs and the score was tied, 3 to 3, as Malarkey came up to bat in the bottom of the 11th inning. Hitting the only home run of his career, Malarkey earned a win to finish his won-lost record at 8-10.[15]
Nellie Tayloe, a kindergarten teacher in Nebraska, married Tennessee lawyer William B. Ross, setting her on a path to becoming the first woman to serve as the governor of a U.S. state. The couple and their children moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1906 and, with his wife's assistance, William Ross began a political career, winning election as Governor of Wyoming in 1922. Ross died on October 2, 1924, from complications of an appendectomy, and Nellie Tayloe Ross was nominated by the state Democratic Party to run in a special election to fill the remainder of his term, winning by an overwhelming majority. She served as Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927.
Munch's unusual self portrait, made 10 years after The Scream
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch underwent surgery at the National Hospital in Christiana for an injured left hand and refused general anesthesia so that he could witness the entire experience in order to capture it later in art. Munch requested, and received local anesthesia in the form of a dose of cocaine "thereby enabling him to follow the operation, albeit in severe pain",[16] and later used the memories of the experience to paint a self-portrait, På operasjonsbordet (On the Operating Table)
Camille Pelletan, France's Navy Minister, delivered a speech at Bizerte that was heavily criticized for using language considered offensive in England, Italy and Germany.[3]
Opera singer Nellie Melba arrived in Brisbane at the start of her first Australian tour, having spent the previous 16 years in Europe.[20]
September 18, 1902 (Thursday)
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Robert Peary and his party of Arctic explorers arrived in Sydney, Nova Scotia, four years after having departed.[3]
September 19, 1902 (Friday)
A stampede killed 115 people, nearly all African-American, at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, during a speech by Booker T. Washington. Believing that the building had caught fire, the crowd panicked and charged toward the lone exit. The victims were either trampled to death or smothered.[21]
Captain Otto Sverdrup and the Norwegian Arctic Expedition returned to Norway on the steamer Fram, four years after having departed.[3] Though the Fram did not attempt to reach the North Pole, it charted the area west of Canada's Ellesmere Island and discovered three new islands, which were claimed for Norway but would be awarded to Canada and became the Sverdrup Islands.
In voting by the electors selected on September 5 for elections to Denmark's parliament, the ruling Højre Party of Prime Minister Johan Deuntzer lost 13 of the 19 seats it had held, but and lost it 42-seat majority. After voting completed, the Højre Party held only 29 seats and two opposition parties combined for 31, and Deuntzer had to form a coalition government.
The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center system began in the U.S. city of Los Angeles with the opening of the 12-bed Kaspare Cohn Hospital, named in honor of Jewish philanthropist Kaspare Cohn, who funded the first years and donated a two-story house located at 1443 Carroll Avenue to offer free medical care to L.A. residents.[23] By 1910, it would relocate to a building for 60 beds and in 1930, no longer free, would become the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital with 279 beds. Cedars of Lebanon and the Mount Sinai Hospital (founded 1918) would merge to create the current research medical center.
The U.S. Army transport USAT Warren began the repatriation of most of 43 Philippine political prisoners of war who had been exiled to Guam by the U.S. during the Philippine–American War.[24]
The Republic of Cuba's President, Tomás Estrada Palma, requested that the United States withdraw its artillery companies stationed in the island nation.[5]
In the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, GovernorWilliam A. Stone dispatched state militia troops to Lackawanna County to bring rioting iron and steel workers under control.[5] The entire state national guard would be sent to the anthracite coal mining areas on October 6.
The Bailundo revolt began in Angola as a column of Portuguese colonial soldiers led by Pedro Massano de Amorim, arrived from Luanda and entered Bailundo fort in readiness for anticipated attack.
A Venezuelan Navy gunboat, making unauthorized use of the United States flag, was allowed to approach the rebel-held city of Ciudad Bolívar and then began bombardment.[5] The next day, U.S. Ambassador Herbert W. Bowen delivered a protest and warning to Venezuela's PresidentCipriano Castro.
Floods killed 300 people in the city of Modica on the Italian island of Sicily after a cyclone struck hits the island's east coast.[28][29] and the cathedral of Belpasso collapses, with another 600 deaths resulting.[30]
The 1,800 streetcar workers in New Orleans in the U.S. state of Louisiana went on strike to make a demand for to be limited to an eight-hour day and an increase in their wages to 25 cents an hour.[5]
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^P. G. Wodehouse, Over Seventy (1957), pp. 19–21, 24–27
^"John Malarkey", by David Nebec, SABR Biography Project (Society for American Baseball Research)
^"Edvard Munch: The Creative Search for Self", by Lawrence H. Warick and Elaine R. Warick, in Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art, ed. by Mary M. Gedo (The Analytic Press, 1987) p.290
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