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December 1902

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The following events occurred in December 1902:

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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.
  • The Los Angeles mayoral election is won by the incumbent mayor, Democrat Meredith P. Snyder.

    • December 2, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • Died: Richard Belcredi, 79, former Prime minister of the Austrian Empire

    • December 3, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, is appointed Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs. He would be the longest-serving Foreign Minister in the history of Brazil.
  • Born: Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese aviator, naval officer, and Christian evangelist, in Katsuragi, Nara Prefecture (died 1976)
  • Died:
  • Robert Lawson, 69, New Zealand architect
  • Prudente de Morais, 61, 3rd President of Brazil

    • December 4, 1902 (Thursday)

  • Died: Charles Dow, 51, US journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company

    • 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.
  • Born: Strom Thurmond, US politician, in Edgefield, South Carolina (died 2003)

    • December 7, 1902 (Sunday)

  • Died: Thomas Nast, 62, German-born US caricaturist and cartoonist, having contracted yellow fever in Ecuador

    • December 8, 1902 (Monday)

  • The Committee of Imperial Defence is established by Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • Born: Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist, in Sagua La Grande (died 1982)

    • December 9, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03: 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.
  • Born: Margaret Hamilton, US actress, in Cleveland, Ohio (died 1985)

    • December 10, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • Construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the River Nile is completed.

    • 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.
  • Koloman Sokol, Slovak artist, in Liptovský Mikuláš (died 2003)

    • December 13, 1902 (Saturday)

  • Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03: 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, US stage and television actress, in New York City (died 1989)
  • Died: Julia Grant, 76, 18th First Lady of the United States (as wife of President Ulysses S. Grant)

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • December 17, 1902 (Wednesday)

  • During a gale in the Atlantic Ocean off Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA, the schooners Frank A. Palmer## and Louise B. Crary collide and sink; eleven of a total of 21 crew members are killed.

    • December 19, 1902 (Friday)

  • Lord Hawke's XI plays the first match of its cricket tour of New Zealand at Auckland, defeating a local side.

    • 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 (died 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.
  • Died: Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 62, German sexologist

    • December 23, 1902 (Tuesday)

  • Born:Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
  • Died: Frederick Temple, 81, English priest, Archbishop of Canterbury

    • December 25, 1902 (Thursday)

  • Born: Princess Françoise of Orléans, daughter of Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, and Princess Isabelle of Orléans, in Paris (died 1953)

    • December 26, 1902 (Friday)

  • British-born Ada Evans becomes the first woman in Australia to obtain a degree in Law.
  • Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, is incorporated as a city.

    • December 28, 1902 (Sunday)

  • Born:
  • Mortimer J. Adler, US philosopher, in New York City (died 2001)
  • Shen Congwen, Chinese writer, in Fenghuang (died 1988)

    • 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.

    • References

    December 1902 Wikipedia
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