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The following events occurred in December 1902:

December 9, 1902: Britain, Germany and Italy begin blockade of Venezuelan ports to collect debts
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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

December 1, 1902 (Monday)

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December 2, 1902 (Tuesday)

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December 3, 1902 (Wednesday)

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December 4, 1902 (Thursday)

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  • France's Chamber of Deputies ratified the monetary convention between France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, authorizing each nation to issue $2,500,000 additional silver coins.[1]
  • A fire at a hotel in Chicago killed 14 people.[1]
  • Died: Charles Dow, 51, American journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851)[7]

December 5, 1902 (Friday)

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December 6, 1902 (Saturday)

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December 7, 1902 (Sunday)

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December 8, 1902 (Monday)

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December 9, 1902 (Tuesday)

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  • The "Venezuelan Crisis" began when a naval blockade of Venezuela was imposed by Western European powers, after President Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay foreign debts and recompense European citizens for losses incurred in the Federal War. British and German warships sailed into the port of La Guaira, seized four Venezuelan warships and scuttled three of them. The act of aggression presented a challenge to U.S. President Roosevelt and to the Monroe Doctrine of preventing incursions by European powers against nations in the Western Hemisphere. Venezuelan police began the arrest of British and German citizens within Venezuela.[12]
  • Born: Margaret Hamilton, American film and TV actress; in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1985)

December 10, 1902 (Wednesday)

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  • Construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the Nile was completed with the opening of the dam and reservoir.[13]
  • British and German warships expanded their blockade of the Venezuelan coast and intercepted a Venezuelan gunboat at Port of Spain in Trinidad. On the demand of Herbert W. Bowen, the U.S. Minister to Venezuela, President Cipriano Castro released the British and German subjects arrested the day before.[1]

December 11, 1902 (Thursday)

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December 12, 1902 (Friday)

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December 13, 1902 (Saturday)

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  • As the Venezuelan crisis continued, the British merchant ship Topaze was boarded by a mob and its crew arrested by the Venezuelan Navy. When no apology was forthcoming, the British battle cruiser Charybdis and the German cruiser Vineta began the bombardment of Venezuelan forts at Puerto Cabello.
  • U.S. Congressman David A. De Armond of Missouri introduced a proposal for a constitutional amendment to delay the presidential inauguration day from March 4 to April 30, and to have Congress assemble on January 8 rather than the first Monday in December.[1]

December 14, 1902 (Sunday)

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December 15, 1902 (Monday)

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December 16, 1902 (Tuesday)

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December 17, 1902 (Wednesday)

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December 18, 1902 (Thursday)

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  • The British House of Lords was prorogued by King Edward VII at the request of Prime Minister Balfour.[1]

December 19, 1902 (Friday)

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December 20, 1902 (Saturday)

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December 21, 1902 (Sunday)

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December 22, 1902 (Monday)

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December 23, 1902 (Tuesday)

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December 24, 1902 (Wednesday)

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  • U.S. President Roosevelt received the formal request from the UK and Germany, asking that he become the arbitrator in the Venezuelan crisis.[22] The next day, Venezuela agreed to arbitration by Roosevelt at the Hague, subject to a halt of the blockade of its coast and for the return of Venezuelan Navy ships seized by the European nations.[citation needed]

December 25, 1902 (Thursday)

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December 26, 1902 (Friday)

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December 27, 1902 (Saturday)

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  • The Romanian Senate voted to approved an act providing for allowing Jewish residents to become naturalized citizens of Romania.[citation needed]

December 28, 1902 (Sunday)

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December 29, 1902 (Monday)

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  • The coronation durbar ceremonies began in India at Delhi.[citation needed]
  • The Sultan of Morocco barricaded himself with his guards inside his palace at Fez during an uprising by rebels.[citation needed]

December 30, 1902 (Tuesday)

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December 31, 1902 (Wednesday)

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  • Wilson, Scott and Shackleton turned back to join the rest of the Discovery Expedition because of illness. Most of their sledge-dogs were dead and Shackleton was suffering from scurvy.[34]
  • The government of British India ordered the release of 16,000 prisoners in order to commemorate the coronation durbar of Edward VII as Emperor of India.[citation needed]
  • The U.S. Steel Corporation announced a system of profit-sharing for its employees and for the workers to purchase stock in the company.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Record of Current Events". The American Monthly Review of Reviews: 27–30. January 1903 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ "[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).
  4. ^ "Los Angeles Mayor". Our Campaigns.
  5. ^ "Teddy's 1902 Message Uncovered". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 7, 1950. p. 2.
  6. ^ "FUNAG – International Seminar Baron of Rio Branco – 100 years of memory". September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  7. ^ Wendt, Lloyd (1982). The Wall Street Journal: The Story of Dow Jones & the Nation's Business Newspaper. Chicago: Rand McNally. p. 130.
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ^ "THURMOND, James Strom 1902 – 2003". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  10. ^ Bryant, Edward. "Nast, Thomas." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
  11. ^ Devanny, Dr Joe; Harris, Josh. "The National Security Council: national security at the centre of government". Institute for Government & King's College London. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  12. ^ Morris, Edmund (2002). "'A Matter Of Extreme Urgency' Theodore Roosevelt, Wilhelm II, and the Venezuela Crisis of 1902". Naval War College Review. 55 (2): 73–85.
  13. ^ "The First Aswan Dam". University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 15 June 1997. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  14. ^ "JR Hokkaido Route Map" (PDF). Hokkaido Railway Company. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  15. ^ Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1967., cited in "Guglielmo Marconi – Biographical". NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB. 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  16. ^ "19021216 UZBEKISTAN: ANDIZHAN". National Geophysical Data Center. December 16, 1902. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  17. ^ NOAA web site, accessed May 4, 2009
  18. ^ "Lord Hawke's XI in New Zealand, 1902/03 Auckland v Lord Hawke's XI". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  19. ^ "History of Government and Laws, Part 15 History of Pitcairn Island". Pitcairn Islands Study Centre. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
  20. ^ "Lord Willoughby de Broke Dead". The New York Times. 26 December 1902. Page 7, column 6. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  21. ^ Wilson, John (May 2009) [November 2003]. "The Origins of the Māori Seats". Wellington: New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  22. ^ "Record of Current Events". The American Monthly Review of Reviews: 154–156. February 1903 – via Google Books.
  23. ^ "KANSAS MOB LYNCHES NEGRO.; Man Who Killed Policeman Is Taken from Jail at Pittsburg and Put to Death". The New York Times. 26 December 1902. Page 5, column 2. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  24. ^ "LYNCHED THE WRONG MAN?; Brother of a Kansas Mob's Victim, a Fugitive, Said to be the Murderer". The New York Times. 27 December 1902. Page 2, column 2. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  25. ^ "NEGRO PRISONER ADMITS CRIME Man Taken at San Jose Wanted in Kansas". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 197. 13 April 1904. Page 1, column 3. Retrieved 20 February 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  26. ^ "Policeman Milton Hinkle, Pittsburg Police Department, Kansas". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  27. ^ "Death List of a Day; Justice Jackson Temple". The New York Times. 27 December 1902. Page 9, column 5. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  28. ^ "Senator Trainor Dead.; Representative of the Sixteenth District Expires at Albany". The New York Times. 26 December 1902. Page 7, column 7. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  29. ^ 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 13 August 2006.
  30. ^ "AT LEAST SIX FIREMEN BURIED UNDER A WALL; Flames Destroy the Arbuckles' Brooklyn Cooperage". The New York Times. 26 December 1902. Page 1, column 5. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  31. ^ "PROBING FIREMEN'S DEATHS; Coroner's Inquiry Into Arbuckles' Cooperage Disaster". The New York Times. 27 December 1902. Page 7, column 4. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  32. ^ "Line of Duty". NYC Fire Wire. 11 January 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  33. ^ "Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood". The New York Times. 27 December 1902. Page 9, column 5. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  34. ^ 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.