Boer War ends at Vereeniging
May 31, 1902
After three years of farmhouse burnings, barbed-wire camps, and guerrilla ambushes, Boer commandos signed the peace at a tent in the veld. Britain had won South Africa's gold and diamonds but exposed its own brutality to the watching world. Twenty-six thousand Boer women and children had died in the camps.
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Also in 1902 (4 other events on record)
- Mount Pelee incinerates Saint-Pierre · North America · Disaster
- Anglo-Japanese Alliance signed · East Asia · Politics
- First permanent movie theater opens · North America · Culture
- Aswan Low Dam completed · Africa · Technology
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