In 1902, the German parliamentary upper house (" Bundesrat ") made his rules for orthography mandatory in official state documents.

In 1902, Bohuslav Brauner suggested there was an element with properties intermediate between those of the known elements neodymium ( 60 ) and samarium ( 62 ); this was confirmed in 1914 by Henry Moseley who, having measured the atomic numbers of all the elements then known, found there was no element with atomic number 61.

In 1902, Reuss, along with Franz Hartmann and Henry Klein, purchased the right to perform the Rite of Memphis and Mizraim of Freemasonry, the authority of which was confirmed in 1904 and again in 1905.

Excavation of the tumulus between 1902 and 1903 by the archeologist Georgios Soteriades confirmed this.

A tiny part of the territory ( situated in today's Poland below the Rysy ), amounting to 195 km² after an internal border dispute had been confirmed to be part of Galicia ( Central Europe ) ( at that time the western part of Austria-Hungary ) as early as 1902.

Major Walter Reed, M. D., ( September 13, 1851 – November 22, 1902 ) was a U. S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team that postulated and confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species, rather than by direct contact.

This was successfully confirmed by Henry Scrymgeour, de jure 10th Earl of Dundee, in 1902.

In January 1902, Rear Admiral Schley appealed from the verdict to President Theodore Roosevelt, who, however, confirmed Secretary Long's approval.

Formally nominated on December 2, 1902, Holmes was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on December 4, receiving his commission the same day.

He held that chair until his June of 1951, confirmed by the U. S. Governor in 1899 and by the Cuban Republic after 1902.

“ In February 1902, Jewish builder and philanthropist Harry Finschel bought a piece of land of about 10, 000 square feet, at the south corner of Grand and Chrystie Streets with the intention to erect on the site a theatre for Yiddish performances .” At the time of the opening of the Grand Theater in New York ( 1903 ), New York's first purpose-built Yiddish theater, the New York Times noted, " That the Yiddish population is composed of confirmed theatergoers has been evident for a long time, and for many years at least three theaters, which had served their day of usefulness for the English dramas, have been pressed into service, providing amusement for the people of the Ghetto.

This is confirmed by a hospital staff record from Denver, where she received treatment in May 1902, which reports her age as " 23 or 24 ," ( therefore again, circa 1878 ), although both records may transpire to be from the same original source, the hospital staff.

The last confirmed specimen was shot at Oharu in 1902, although alleged sightings continued.

After 1902, German spelling was essentially decided de facto by the editors of the Duden dictionaries.

In 1900 the ZAR was annexed by the United Kingdom during the Second Boer War although the official surrender of the territory only took place at the end of the war, on 31 May 1902.

He also quoted Luxemburg who criticized Le Peuple, the official newspaper of the Belgian Labour Party, who was again in favour of the German method after the General strike of 1902 failed.

Atletic Bilbao began playing in an improvised white kit, but in the 1902 – 03 season, the club's first official strip became half-blue, half-white shirts similar to those worn by Blackburn Rovers, which were donated by Juan Moser.

* Filipino guerilla units after official end of Philippine-American War ( 1902 – 1913 )

No provisions for official relocation were authorized, although Harbor Springs served as the unofficial county seat until April 1902, when the present county seat of Petoskey was selected in a county-wide election.

In 1902 the Waco received allotments of land and became official US citizens.

Salt Lake County recognized the election results as official on November 25, 1902, and the city was officially recognized as a Third Class City by the State of Utah on January 3, 1903.

The first official run of the interurban line from Tacoma to Seattle, by the way of the valley, was in October 1902.

The club's first official game was played on May 3, 1902, when they were defeated by São Paulo Athletic.

Some of Grimm's letters, besides the official correspondence, are included in the edition of Tourneux ; others are contained in the Erinnerungen einer Urgrossmutter of K. von Bechtolsheim, edited ( Berlin, 1902 ) by Count C. Oberndorff.

It provoked a party split in the twenties, centered on the question of an alcohol ban, but differences were eventually repaired ( the re-merging of the parties in 1934 is one of the party's plethora of official creation dates, some others being 1895, 1900 and 1902, providing frequent cause for anniversary celebrations ).

The first train running on the account of the Swiss Confederation ran during the night of New Year's Day in 1901 from Zurich via Bern to Geneva, although 1 January 1902 is regarded as the official birth date of Swiss Federal Railways.

Hikmet was born on January 15, 1902, in Salonica, the westernmost metropolis of the Ottoman Empire ( today Thessaloniki in Greece ), where his father served as a government official.

* Charlie Berry ( 1902 – 1972 ), baseball catcher and umpire, football player and official

The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 1902 to 1947 ; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces, by which the province had been commonly known, and by which name it was also a province of independent India until 1950.

Wilhelm Stuckart ( 16 November 1902 – 15 November 1953 ) was a Nazi Party lawyer and official, a state secretary in the German Interior Ministry and later, a convicted war criminal.

The official date when the franchise formed was March 18, 1902, with W. G. Bramham, later President of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues ( Minor League Baseball ), as the owner.

The official anthem of the Dominion of Newfoundland was the " Ode to Newfoundland ", written by British colonial governor Sir Charles Cavendish Boyle in 1902 during his administration of Newfoundland ( 1901 to 1904 ).

Originally the horses were displayed on the black quarters, but in 1902 they were placed on the silver quarters, which was made official in 1953.

Born Kathleen Morrison on August 19, 1899 ( according to the bulk of the official records ; the date which she insisted was correct in her autobiography Silent Star, was 1902 ) in Port Huron, Michigan, Miss Moore was the eldest child of Charles R. and Agnes Morrison.

* Alexander Mackenzie ( civil servant ) ( 1842 – 1902 ), British colonial official in Burma

He continued resistance against the United States following the official American declaration of the war's end in 1902 and in the following year became president of the Tagalog Republic,

Haskell was selected as the official representative of the Creeks to the conventions, in the position of vice-president for the Five Civilized Tribes, held in Eufaula, Oklahoma in 1902 and Muskogee in 1905.

He was chairman of the First United States Philippine Commission in 1899, and wrote ( besides a part of the official report to Congress ) Philippine Affairs -- A Retrospect and an Outlook ( 1902 ).

After its name change in 1902, the club colours were changed to red shirts, white shorts, and black socks, which has become the standard Manchester United home kit.

A line was also constructed in 1902 as a standard gauge line, perhaps in anticipation of possible standard gauging of the entire line, south from Durango, Colorado to Farmington, New Mexico.

* Das arabische Reich und sein Sturz, in its time the standard modern account of Umayyad history ( 1902 ), English translation The Arab Kingdom and its Fall ( 1927 )

The reverse shows the seated Britannia surrounded by and over the date, which remained the standard design until 1970, although there is a variety of some 1902 pennies known as the low tide penny, where the sea appears exceptionally low on Britannia's leg.

The Macedon Academy, opened from 1841 to 1902, set a standard for education excellence.

In the early twentieth century, Freer, in 1902, and Killian, in 1904, respectively pioneered the submucous resection septoplasty ( SMR ) procedure for correcting a deviated septum ; they raised mucoperichondrial tissue flaps, and resected the cartilaginous and bony septum ( including the vomer bone and the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone ), maintaining septal support with a 1. 0-cm margin at the dorsum and a 1. 0-cm margin at the caudad, for which innovations the technique became the foundational, standard septoplastic procedure.

Gut strings were replaced by metal strings ( standard after 1902 ).

On 9 August 1902, the day of the coronation of King Edward VII, the monarch's royal standard ( then the same in Canada as in the United Kingdom ) was raised on a temporary flag pole at His Majesty's Dockyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Prototype games were played in 1902 and 1932, both of which used the shortened field but followed the outdoor standard 11 men to a side.

In 1902, the Model O introduced three speeds, which was standard for all De Dion-Boutons in 1904.

The LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 and the BR standard class 5 are both derived from his Saint class early examples of which date to 1902.

After his appointment as Locomotive Superintendent in 1902 he developed a series of standard locomotive types with flat-topped Belpaire fireboxes, tapered boilers, long smokeboxes, boiler top feeds, long-lap long-travel valve gear, and many standardised parts such as wheels, cylinders and connecting rods.

Between 1846 and 1880 the 2-4-0 was the standard type for freight and mixed traffic locomotives and was built in large numbers by among others, the LNWR ( 1846 – 96 ), the Midland Railway ( 1846 – 1880 ), the North Eastern Railway ( 1856 – 88 ), the Great Eastern Railway ( 1856 – 1902 ), the Great Northern Railway ( 1849 – 97 ).

In 1902, Colonel Springs borrowed $ 125, 000 from the Southern Railway to convert the L & C rails to standard gauge.

The 490 series or K-37 locomotives were part of a class of thirty standard gauge class 190 ( later, class C-41 ) 2-8-0 engines built in 1902 for the D & RG by Baldwin Locomotive Works.