Events from the year 1902 in the United States.
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- January 1 – The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
- January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains.
- January 28 – The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
- February 18 – U.S. President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.
- March 10 – A Circuit Court prevents Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
- April 2 – Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
- May 15 – It is claimed that in a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore achieves flight in a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider). There is no surviving evidence to verify this claim.
- May 20 – Cuba gains independence from the United States.
- June 2 – The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States.
- June 15 – The New York Central railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City, New York.
- July 10 – The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, Pennsylvania kills 112 miners.
- August 22 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
- October 21 – In the United States, a five month strike by the United Mine Workers ends.
- November 30 – American Old West: The second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years hard labor.
- November–December – The Venezuela Crisis occurs between the United States and Germany.
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