The Hay–Pauncefote Treaty is signed by the United Kingdom and United States, ceding control of the Panama Canal to the United States.
J. P. Morgan buys mines and steel mills in the United States, marking the first billion-dollar business deal.
In Evansville, Indiana, a fire burns through the business district, causing $175,000 of damage.
February 20 – The Hawaii Territory Legislature convenes for the first time.
February 25 –U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and at some time the world's largest producer of steel, is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan.
March 2
The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
September 6: President McKinley is shot.September 14: "Teddy" Roosevelt succeeds McKinley as the 26th U.S. president.
June 22–July 31 –The worst heat wave in U.S. history until the 1930s, affecting most areas east of the 100th meridian, is estimated to have killed over 9,500 people.
In Amherst, New Hampshire, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine; she will confess to at least 31 killings.
↑ "Thirteenth Annual Report of the Director". Missouri Botanical Garden Annual Report. 1902: 22. 1902. doi:10.2307/2400120. JSTOR2400120.
↑ Stanton E. Cope. 2011. Clara Maass: An American Heroine. Wing Beats 22(2): 16-19.
Further reading
"Domestic Chronology", Statistician and Economist, San Francisco: Louis P. McCarty, 1905, pp.227–347, hdl:2027/uc1.b3142275– via HathiTrust. (Covers events May 1898-June 1905)
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