December 1902 calendar

Events

• 02 Dec 1902 Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer.
• 08 Dec 1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court.
• 10 Dec 1902 Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
• 14 Dec 1902 The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
• 26 Dec 1902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) and Christy Williams (42).
• 28 Dec 1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US.
• 30 Dec 1902 Discovery Expedition: Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S.
• 31 Dec 1902 Boers and British army sign peace treaty.

Famous Birthday

• Wifredo Lam
• Prince George Duke of Kent
• Rafael Alberti

  Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.

• Harold Goodwin
• John Willie
• Ralph Richardson

  England, United Kingdom -- Actor (Anna Karenina, Dr Zhivago).

• Lucius Beebe

  American journalist, a newspaper columnist known as a dandy for his elegant dress.

• Strom Thurmond

  American politician, a lawyer, farmer and U.S.

• Margaret Hamilton (actress)
• Paul Anxionnaz

  French politician, who represented the Radical Party in the National Assembly from 1946 to 1951 and from 1956 to 1958.

• Max Lerner

  United States -- Columnist (NY Post).

• Paul Kurzbach

  composer.

• Simon Drach

  writer.

• Leonard Hirsch

  British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symphony Orchestra).

• Virgilio Mortari

  composer.

• Elisha Cook Jr

  San Francisco, California -- Actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane, Magnum PI).

• George EAE

  English Prince / Earl of St Andrews.

• Miroslav Ponc

  composer.

• Robert F Bradford

  57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983).

• Horace A Hildreth (Governor-Maine

  1945-49).

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Famous Deaths

• Henry Stephen Cutler composer

  dies at age 78.

• Matthias Hohner German manufacturer (harmonica)

  dies at age 68.

• Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing psychiatrist

  dies at age 62.

• Robert Lawson

  Scottish-New Zealand architect designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (d. 1902).

• Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  German-Austrian psychologist and author (d. 1902).

• Thomas Nast

  German-born American cartoonist (Born 1840).

• Charles Dow

  American journalist and economist (d. 1902).

• Frederick Temple

  English archbishop and academic (d. 1902).

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. J.W. Myers - My Little Gipsy Maid
2. Arthur Collins - Under the Bamboo Tree
3. Harry Macdonough - My Beautiful Irish Maid
4. Frank Stanley & Byron G. Harlan - Closing Time at a Country Grocery