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December 30, 1902: Scott, Shackleton, and Wilson reach further south than anyone in history
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]
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.[3]
- 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[4]
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.[5]
- Born: Strom Thurmond, US politician, in Edgefield, South Carolina (died 2003)
December 6, 1902 (Saturday)
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December 7, 1902 (Sunday)
- Died: Thomas Nast, 62, German-born US caricaturist and cartoonist, having contracted yellow fever in Ecuador[6]
December 8, 1902 (Monday)
- The Committee of Imperial Defence is established by Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 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.[9]
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.[10]
- 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.[11]
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.[12]
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.[13]
December 18, 1902 (Thursday)
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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.[14]
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.[15]
- 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 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 (died 1953)
December 26, 1902 (Friday)
- British-born Ada Evans becomes the first woman in Australia to obtain a degree in Law.[16]
- Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, is incorporated as a city.
December 27, 1902 (Saturday)
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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 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.[17]
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.
- ^ 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.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "JR Hokkaido Route Map" (PDF). Hokkaido Railway Company. 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
- ^ "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. Vol. 8. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. pp. 443–444. Archived from the original on 19 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-13.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ 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.