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December 9, 1902: Britain, Germany and Italy begin blockade of Venezuelan ports to collect debts
December 30, 1902: Scott, Shackleton, and Wilson reach further south than anyone in history
December 21, 1902: 82-year old General Alexis leads coup to overthrow government of Haiti
The following events occurred in December 1902:
December 1, 1902 (Monday)[]
- Danish composer Carl Nielsen conducts the premiėre of his Symphony No. 2, The Four Temperaments, for the Danish Concert Association in Copenhagen.[1]
- The Los Angeles mayoral election is won by the incumbent mayor, Democrat Meredith P. Snyder.[2]
- Denver, Colorado becomes a consolidated city-county.[3]
December 2, 1902 (Tuesday)[]
- Died: Count Richard Belcredi, 79, former Prime minister of the Austrian Empire (b. 1823)
December 3, 1902 (Wednesday)[]
- José Paranhos is appointed Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs. He would be the longest-serving foreign minister in the history of Brazil.[4]
- Born: Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese aviator, naval officer, and Christian evangelist, in Katsuragi, Nara Prefecture, Japan (d. 1976)
- Died:
- Robert Lawson, 69, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
- Prudente de Morais, 61, third President of Brazil (b. 1841)
December 4, 1902 (Thursday)[]
- Died: Charles Dow, 51, American journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851)[5]
December 5, 1902 (Friday)[]
- The first performance of Leo Tolstoy's play The Power of Darkness (Власть тьмы, Vlast' t'my, written in 1886) is given at the Moscow Art Theatre, with Konstantin Stanislavski as Mitrich.[6]
- Born: Strom Thurmond, American politician, in Edgefield, South Carolina (d. 2003)
December 6, 1902 (Saturday)[]
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December 7, 1902 (Sunday)[]
- Died: Thomas Nast, 62, German-American caricaturist and cartoonist, having contracted yellow fever in Ecuador (b. 1840)[7]
December 8, 1902 (Monday)[]
- The Committee of Imperial Defence is established by Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[8]
- Born: Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist, in Sagua La Grande, Cuba (d. 1982)
December 9, 1902 (Tuesday)[]
- Venezuelan crisis: A naval blockade of Venezuela is imposed by Western European powers, as a result of President Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay foreign debts and recompense European citizens for losses incurred in the Federal War.[9]
- Born: Margaret Hamilton, American actress, in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1985)
December 10, 1902 (Wednesday)[]
- Construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the Nile is completed.[10]
December 11, 1902 (Thursday)[]
- Ludwig Forrer is elected a member of the Swiss Federal Council.
December 12, 1902 (Friday)[]
- Ranshima Station is opened by the Hokkaido Railway Company on the Hakodate Main Line in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan.[11]
- Born: Koloman Sokol, Slovak artist, in Liptovský Mikuláš, German Empire (d. 2003)
December 13, 1902 (Saturday)[]
- Venezuelan crisis: A British merchant ship is boarded and its crew arrested in Venezuela. When no apology was forthcoming, a British and German force launches a bombardment of Venezuelan forts at Puerto Cabello.
December 14, 1902 (Sunday)[]
- Born: Frances Bavier, American stage and television actress, in New York City (d. 1989)
- Died: Julia Grant, 76, 18th First Lady of the United States (as wife of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant) (b. 1826)
December 15, 1902 (Monday)[]
- Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, is the location for transmission of the first transatlantic radio press report, sent by Guglielmo Marconi.[12]
December 16, 1902 (Tuesday)[]
- 1902 Andijan earthquake: An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 strikes Andijan Province, Uzbekistan, killing 4,880 people and destroying over 40,000 homes.[13]
December 17, 1902 (Wednesday)[]
- During a gale in the Atlantic Ocean off Gloucester, Massachusetts, the schooners Frank A. Palmer and Louise B. Crary collide and sink; eleven of a total of 21 crew members are killed.[14]
December 18, 1902 (Thursday)[]
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December 19, 1902 (Friday)[]
- The uninhabited atoll Ducie Island is formally annexed to the British Empire.[15]
- Lord Hawke's cricket team plays the first match of its tour of New Zealand at Auckland, defeating a local side.[16]
December 20, 1902 (Saturday)[]
- Born: Prince George, Duke of Kent, son of the future King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary, at York Cottage, Norfolk (d. 1942)
December 21, 1902 (Sunday)[]
- Pierre Nord Alexis becomes President of Haiti at the age of 82, following a military coup.
December 22, 1902 (Monday)[]
- The Maori electorates of New Zealand vote in the country's general election.[17]
- Died: Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 62, German sexologist (b. 1840)
December 23, 1902 (Tuesday)[]
- Born: Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
- Died: Frederick Temple, 81, English priest, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
December 24, 1902 (Wednesday)[]
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December 25, 1902 (Thursday)[]
- Born: Princess Françoise of Orléans, daughter of Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, and Princess Isabelle of Orléans, in Paris (d. 1953)
December 26, 1902 (Friday)[]
- British-born Ada Evans becomes the first woman in Australia to obtain a degree in law.[18]
- Brisbane, the capital of Queensland in Australia, is incorporated as a city.
December 27, 1902 (Saturday)[]
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December 28, 1902 (Sunday)[]
- Born:
- Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher, in New York City (d. 2001)
- Shen Congwen, Chinese writer, in Fenghuang, China (d. 1988)
December 29, 1902 (Monday)[]
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December 30, 1902 (Tuesday)[]
- Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Edward Adrian Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S.
December 31, 1902 (Wednesday)[]
- Discovery Expedition: Wilson, Scott and Shackleton turn back, with most of their sledge-dogs dead and Shackleton suffering from scurvy.[19]
References[]
- ^ Simpson, Robert (1952). Carl Nielsen, Symphonist (1st ed.). London: J. M. Dent. pp. 25–44. ASIN B0000CIDKO. Reprinted by Hyperion Press ISBN 978-0-88355-715-0
- ^ "Los Angeles Mayor". Our Campaigns.
- ^ "[T]he city and county of Denver ... did not come into being until the day of the issuing of the Governor's proclamation, on December 1, 1902". City Council of the City and County of Denver v. Board of Commissioners of Adams County, 77 P. 858, 861 (1904).
- ^ FUNAG – International Seminar Baron of Rio Branco – 100 years of memory, September 2012 Archived 2014-03-24 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 24 March 2014
- ^ Wendt, Lloyd (1982). The Wall Street Journal: The Story of Dow Jones & the Nation's Business Newspaper. Rand McNally. p. 130.
- ^ Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavski, My Life in Art, Routledge (1974), ISBN 0-87830-550-5 (hardcover). University Press of the Pacific (2004) ISBN 1-4102-1692-6 (paperback).
- ^ Bryant, Edward. "Nast, Thomas." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ Dr Joe Devanny & Josh Harris. "The National Security Council: national security at the centre of government". Institute for Government & King's College London. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ Edmund Morris, "'A Matter Of Extreme Urgency' Theodore Roosevelt, Wilhelm II, and the Venezuela Crisis of 1902," Naval War College Review (2002) 55#2 pp 73–85
- ^ "The First Aswan Dam". University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 15 June 1997. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ "JR Hokkaido Route Map" (PDF). Hokkaido Railway Company. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-07. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
- ^ Marconi Biography, Marconi Biography.
- ^ "19021216 UZBEKISTAN: ANDIZHAN". National Geophysical Data Center. December 16, 1902. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
- ^ NOAA web site, accessed May 4, 2009
- ^ "History of Government and Laws, Part 15 History of Pitcairn Island". Pitcairn Islands Study Centre. Archived from the original on 2014-12-11. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
- ^ "Lord Hawke's XI in New Zealand, 1902/03 Auckland v Lord Hawke's XI". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
- ^ Wilson, John (May 2009) [November 2003]. "The Origins of the Māori Seats". Wellington: New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
- ^ O'Brien, Joan M. (1981). "Evans, Ada Emily (1872–1947)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 8. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. pp. 443–444. Archived from the original on 19 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-13.
- ^ Crane, David (2005). Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage, and Tragedy in the Extreme South. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-715068-7.
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