What Happened In June 1902 - Historical Events 1902 June

Historical Events for June, 1902

24th » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
28th » The United States Congress named U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.

5th » Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, author, and activist (d. 1957)
6th » Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1947)
7th » Georges Van Parys, French composer (d. 1971)
7th » Herman B Wells, American academic (d. 2000)
9th » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1969)
12th » Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician, List of mayors of Ghent or Mayor of Ghent (d. 1973)
15th » Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
16th » Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
16th » George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist and author (d. 1984)
17th » Sammy Fain, American composer (d. 1989)
17th » Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
18th » Paavo Yrjölä, Finnish decathlete (d. 1980)
19th » Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (d. 1977)
21st » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1937)
22nd » Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
23rd » Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969)
25th » Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953)
26th » Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor (d. 2010)
28th » Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (d. 1979)

3rd » Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop (b. 1829)
5th » Louis J. Weichmann, American clerk, witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (b. 1842)
10th » Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan priest and poet (b. 1845)
16th » Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
18th » Samuel Butler (novelist) e.g Samuel Butler, English author and poet (b. 1835)
19th » Albert of Saxony (b. 1828)