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1902
 
   
In his pamphlet What is to be done? Lenin argues for early action to promote revolution      
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Alfred Stieglitz and other US photographers launch the Photo-Secession movement       
1902
 
   
Helen Keller's The Story of My Life begins publication in serial form      
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French automobile pioneer Leon Serpollet sets a new land speed record, driving a steam car at 75 mph along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice       
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North Carolina pharmacist Caleb Bradham launches the Pepsi-Cola company in a back room of his shop       
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A.E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside independently see the link between the atmosphere and the behaviour of radio waves       
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The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism        
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The US Congress makes the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 permanent, without the need for ten-year renewals      
1902
 
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Cuba becomes independent after three years of US military rule, with certain restrictions imposed by the Platt Amendment of 1901   See in Google maps   
1902
 
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A treaty at Vereeniging ends the Boer War and brings the Boer republics under British control