This Year in History
1902
This Year in History - 1902
- Michigan overwhelms Stanford 49-0 in the first Rose Bowl football game in Pasadena.
- The Electric Theater, the first full-time motion picture theater in the U.S., opens in Los Angeles.
- Republican George Pardee narrowly defeats Democrat Franklin Knight Lane to become California’s 21st governor.
- Heavyweight boxing champion Jim Jeffries knocks out challenger Bob Fitzsimmons in the eighth round of a championship bout in San Francisco.
- Literary giant John Steinbeck (Salinas) and noted landscape photographer Ansel Adams (San Francisco) are born.
photo courtesy of
The Governors’ Gallery/California State Library