January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
Day of death September 8, 1902
The temperature on September 8, 1902 was between 7.7 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (73%). Source: KNMI
January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
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