March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of death August 17, 1902
The temperature on August 17, 1902 was between 11.5 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). Source: KNMI
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