Timeline December 1902

Events in December 1902 9

• 1902 – 2003 Strom Thurmond (1902-2003) Died 26 June 2003, aged 100 Strom Thurmond represented South Carolina in the US Senate for 48 years and ran for president in 1948 on a segregationist platform. He held the record for the longest speaking filibuster, against the 1957 Civil Rights Act. He retired at 100, the oldest person ever to serve in the Senate.
• 1902 – 1985 Margaret Hamilton (1902-1985) American actress and former kindergarten teacher, forever the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.
• 1902 Margaret Hamilton born in Cleveland Margaret Hamilton is born in Cleveland.
• 1902 Venezuela Blockaded by European Powers Britain, Germany and Italy enforce debt claims Britain, Germany, and Italy imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela beginning December 9, seeking repayment of debts owed by President Cipriano Castro's government. The crisis drew in the United States and contributed to the later Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
• 1902 Aswan Low Dam Completed Major irrigation dam finished on the Nile Construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the Nile River was completed on December 10 after four years of work under engineer William Willcocks. It was the largest masonry dam in the world at the time and reshaped irrigation across Egypt.
• 1902 – 1983 Ralph Richardson (1902-1983) English actor, one of the great stage actors of his generation alongside Olivier and Gielgud.
• 1902 Ralph Richardson born in Cheltenham Ralph Richardson is born in Cheltenham.
• 1902 Pepsi-Cola Company incorporated Formally incorporated in North Carolina — December 24, 1902 Caleb Bradham incorporated the Pepsi-Cola Company in North Carolina on December 24, 1902. He received the official trademark on June 16, 1903 and moved bottling operations from his drugstore to a rented warehouse. In the first year he sold 7,968 gallons of syrup.
• 1902 Discovery Expedition Reaches Furthest South Scott, Shackleton and Wilson set new Antarctic record Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, and Edward Wilson reached 82°17'S on December 30, a new furthest-south record during the British National Antarctic Expedition. The sledging journey pushed the men to the brink of scurvy and exhaustion and helped launch the "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration.