August 9, 1902: King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Queen consort Alexandra crowned at Westminster AbbeyThirty thousand people travel in the procession through London
The Philippine Independent Church was established by Isabelo de los Reyes and the recently-excommunicated Catholic priest Gregorio Aglipay, and other Filipinos who were dissatisfied with the friars from Spain who dominated the Roman Catholic Church in the area. [5] The new church rejected the concept of spiritual authority and infallibility of the Pope and abolished the celibacy requirement for priests.
The Cunard Lineocean linerRMS Carpathia was launched from the shipyard in Wallsend in England, after being christened by the daughter of the Cunard Line vice-chairman.[8] It would make its maiden voyage on May 5, 1903. Converted to a troop ship for World War I, Carpathia would be sunk by a German submarine on July 17, 1918.
While following two burglary suspects, Patrolmen Timothy T. Devine and Charles Pennell of the Chicago Police Department in Illinois were shot and killed in an ambush. Six suspects were arrested after Devine and Pennell's deaths. Another assailant would shoot and kill Pennsylvania State Constable Harry Foster "Darby" Bierer of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on July 9, 1903, while Bierer was trying to arrest him for dynamiting a mine building in Luxor, Pennsylvania. The suspect would be hanged for Bierer's murder on February 11, 1904.[11][12][13]
The city of Tianjin (at the time, spelled Tientsin in the western press) was returned to complete control of the Chinese government, after having been taken by the Eight-Nation Alliance during the Boxer Rebellion.[4]
Died:John Dolbeer, 75, American lumber company entrepreneur and inventor of the first "steam donkey" logging engine, patented in 1882 (b. 1827)
August 18, 1902 (Monday)
A volcanic eruption killed at least 150 people on the island of Tori-shima in Japan[17] The surviving residents were evacuated and the island, also referred to as "Bird Island", would never be repopulated and would become a bird sanctuary visited only by researchers.
Parcel post services were inaugurated between the United States and the United Kingdom.[20]
Explorer Harry de Windt completed his overland trip from Paris to New York, after having traveled entirely by land (with the exception of the Bering Strait) across Europe, Russia and North America in 248 days.[20]
In war games of the United States Navy, a simulated invasion force, the "White Squadron", entered Salem Harbor off of the coast of Massachusetts and attempted to take control of it, but was repelled by the defending "Blue Squadron".[20]
U.S. Patent 707,699-A was granted for the first battery-powered hearing aid, invented by Miller Reese Hutchison and already on the market under the brand name "Acousticon".[26]
The French full-mastedsailing shipLaennec was launched from Saint-Nazaire, France and named for Dr. René Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope. It would later be sold to a German company and renamed the Oldenburg in 1922, and in 1933 to the Finnish Navy and named the Suomen Joutsen (literally "Swan of Finland") and now serves as a floating museum.
A general strike took place in Florence as a result of an industrial dispute at the Pignone iron works.[29][30] Troops were called out to quell any unrest.[31]
In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupted again, with the resulting pyroclastic flow extending further than the flows of 8 and 20 May 1902, and destroying the settlements of Morne-Rouge and Ajoupa-Bouillon; over 1,000 people were killed altogether.[32]
Died: Theodore F. Seward, 67, American musicologist and social crusader known for recording and preserving Negro spirituals (including "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", founder of the Brotherhood of Christian Unity, the Golden Rule Brotherhood, and the "Don't Worry" Clubs during the 19th century (b. 1835) [34]
August 31, 1902 (Sunday)
A powerful storm struck the South African city of Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), destroying most of the ships in harbor. Of 28 ships in port, 19 were wrecked after being blown ashore. [35][36]
^"Publicizing Independence: The Filipino Ilustrado Isabelo de Los Reyes and the 'Iglesia Filipina Independiente' in a Colonial Public Sphere", by Adrian Hermann, in Journal of World Christianity (2016) pp. 99-122
^Walker, John Frederick (2004). A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola. pp. 40–41.
^Stutfield, Hugh; Collie, J. Norman (1903). Climbs & Exploration in the Canadian Rockies : With Maps and Illustrations. BC Historical Books. pp. 286–287.
^David Dutton, Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online; 2004–13
^"Inhabitants of Island all Killed by Volcano; the 150 Japanese Residents of Torishima Dead -- Eruption Still Proceeding", The New York Times, August 19, 1902
^"Five Lives Lost in an East Side Fire: Thrilling Rescues Amid Scenes of Intense Excitement", The New York Times, August 20, 1902
^Scarth, Alwyn (2002). La Catastrophe. Oxford. pp. 212–218.
^The Wings of the Dove: Authoritative Text, The Author and the Novel, Criticism edited by J. Donald Crowley and Richard Hocks (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003) ISBN0-393-97881-8
^"Theodore F. Seward Dead; Musical Composer and Founder of Brotherhood of Christian Unity and Don't Worry Club", The New York Times, September 1, 1902, p. 7
^"The Eastern Cape", in At the Fireside: True Southern African Stories, ed. by Roger Webster (Spearhead Publishing, 2005) p. 127
^On Route in South Africa, ed. by B.P.J. Erasmus (Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1995) p. 194
