What Happened on April 30, 1902

Historical Events

Claude Debussy's only completed opera "Pelléas et Mélisande" premieres at the Salle Favart in Paris by the Opéra-Comique, conducted by André Messager

André-François Marescotti, Swiss organist and composer, born in Carouge, Switzerland (d. 1995)
Rudolf Wittelsbach, Swiss pianist and composer, born in Constantinople, Turkey (d. 1972)
Theodore Schultz, American agricultural economist (1979 Nobel Prize for Economics for development economics), born in Arlington, South Dakota (d. 1998) [1]