Timeline November 1902

Events in November 1902 4

• 1851 – 1902 Walter Reed (1851-1902) Died 22 November 1902, aged 51 Reed was a US Army physician who led the research confirming that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct contact. His findings enabled effective mosquito-control measures that dramatically reduced yellow fever outbreaks, and Walter Reed Army Medical Center was later named in his honor.
• 1902 Thousand Days' War Ends Colombian civil war concludes with peace treaties Colombia's brutal civil war between Liberals and Conservatives ended with the treaties of Neerlandia and Wisconsin, signed in October and November. The conflict had killed over 100,000 people and left Panama, then a Colombian province, in a weakened state that helped pave the way for its separation the following year.
• 1902 Heart of Darkness Published in Book Form Joseph Conrad novella appears in Youth and Two Other Stories Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness," previously serialized in Blackwood's Magazine, was published as part of the collection "Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories" in November. The work later became one of the most widely studied novellas in English literature.
• 1902 The Teddy Bear Is Created Stuffed toy named after Theodore Roosevelt Following a widely published cartoon showing President Theodore Roosevelt declining to shoot a captured bear on a Mississippi hunting trip, Brooklyn shopkeepers Morris and Rose Michtom created a stuffed bear toy and named it the "Teddy bear." The toy became an enduring children's product sold worldwide.