1901
1902
history - Cuba gains independence from the United States
culture - the first Aswan Dam on The Nile is completed - Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles CA - Post Office Savings Bank in Vienna, Austira, designed by Otto Wagner is completed - Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Emile Zola (†)
music - Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande - Scott Joplin: The Entertainer
- 1902.10.29 -- US: New York City - recordings for Victor/Monarch - Dinwiddie Colored Quartet (Sterling Rex?, Clarence Meredith, Harry B. Cruder, Matell Thomas...)
- 1902.10.31 -- US: New York City - recordings for Victor/Monarch - Dinwiddie Colored Quartet (Sterling Rex?, Clarence Meredith, Harry B. Cruder, Matell Thomas...)