1902
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Events
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Dated 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.
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Undated Events
- Gargoyles, Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles: Dominic Dracon is born. (Ask Greg)
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New Fictional Works
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Notable Books
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Notable Films
Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon).
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