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2002(MMII) occurs as common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It was intended a:
International Month of Ecotourism and Mountains
Season of the Outback in Australia
National Science Month in the United Kingdom
Autism Awareness Season in the United Kingdom
Events
January
Euro banknotes in circulation throughout the twelve countries of the European Union that form the Eurozone
January 1 - Introduction of euro banknotes and coins in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Portugal.
January 1 - The Republic of China officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
January 1 - The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially check in 1992, officially enters in to inflict.
January 5 - Charles Bishop, the Xv month-old student pilot, crashes the lightly aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
January 9 - The United States Department of Justice announces it is attend pursue the criminal investigation of Enron.
January 10 - Enrique Bolaños began his five-season term when President of the Republic of Nicaragua.
January 13 - President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel.
January 14 - The instance of "Adelaide Abankwah" comes into trial within Just released York
January 16 - A student shoots Sestet population at a Appalachian School of Law, killing iii.
January 16 - John Ashcroft announces that American Taliban member John Walker Lindh would be tried in the United States.
January 16 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo & a freeze of plus of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and a Taliban.
January 17 - Eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 population.
January 18 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one.
January 22 - AOL Time Warner brings a federal lawsuit against Microsoft seeking damages. A lawsuit alleges that a market for AOL's Netscape Navigator Internet web browser was harmed whilst Microsoft began to give away the competing browser.
January 22 - Kmart Corp becomes the big retail merchant inside Western history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
January 22 - Clyde Hood sentenced for 14 years inside prison for Omega Trust fraud
January 24 - Terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearing begins.
January 27 - Several explosions at the military deposit within Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
February
February 2 - Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands marries Máxima, Princess of Orange in Amsterdam.
February 3 - Costa Rica: elections for President and Congress
February 8 through February 24 - 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
February 12 - The test of previous President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague
February 12 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes a guide that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be a United States' nuclear repository.
February 13 - Queen Elizabeth II gives former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knighthood.
February 19 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of using its thermal emission imaging system.
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February 20 - In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, the fire in a train injures over 65 & kills at least 370
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February 22 - Norwegian-facilitated ceasefire begins in Sri Lanka
February 23 - FARC kidnaps Ingrid Betancourt in Colombia when she campaigns for presidency
February 27 - Ethnic conflict in India: 59 Hindu pilgrims die aboard the train burned by a Muslim mob in Godhra, India, sparking a series of riots, leaving 100s dead
March
March 1 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: In eastern Afghanistan, Operation Anaconda begins.
March 1 - 28 people die around continuing violence around Ahmedabad. Law shoot & put to death 5 when attempting to control rioters.
March 1 - The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800km above a Globe in its Eleventh launch, carrying the heavily payload to date at 8500kg.
March 1 - Space Shuttle Columbia flies Hubble Space Telescope service mission (STS-109).
March 1 - Peseta discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with a euro (€)
March 3 - São Tomé and Príncipe: elections for the legislature
March 6 - France agrees to return a remains of Saartje Baartman to South Africa
March 10 - Colombia: elections for the legislature; Togo: elections for the Parliament
March 11 - BBC 6 Music, the 1st freshly BBC music radio station in decades, is launched
March 12 - In Texas, Andrea Yates is found hangdog of drowning her five tikes in June 20, 2001. She is late sentenced to life around prison
March 17 - Portugal: elections for the Parliament
March 19 - US Attack on Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started in March 1) after killing D Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with Xi allied troop fatalities
March 21 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along using terzetto more suspects come charged with execution for their a portion in the snatch & killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
March 27 - Netanya suicide attack: A suicide bomber kills 28 population within Netanya, Israel
March 31 - Ukraine: elections for the Parliament
April
April 2 - Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where Palestinians come holding in the area of 200 surety. The besieging ensues.
April 9- Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother takes place in Westminster Abbey, London.
April 15 - An Air China Boeing 767-200 crashes into a hillside when you took heavily rain & fog touching Pusan, South Korea, killing 128
April 15 - The Alameda Corridor transportation project around Los Angeles, California opens to rail traffic, ceasing operations of through rattler on the 120-season-old BNSF Harbor Subdivision.
April 17 - Four Canadian infantrymen are flushed around Afghanistan by friendly fire from two U.S. F-16s.
April 18 - New the correct sequence of insects, Mantophasmatodea, announced.
April 25 - South African Mark Shuttleworth blasts off from a Baikonur cosmodrome; he had paid £15 million for the hike.
April 26 - Robert Steinhauser opens fire on his previous teachers & more students around Erfurt, Germany and then kills himself: 16 dead.
April 30 - Pakistan: Pakistani voters approve the referendum granting a 5-season term for Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf.
May
May 4 - In Germany, BV Borussia Dortmund wins the Bundesliga title after the Two-One triumph above SV Werder Bremen.
May 6 - In the Netherlands, politician Pim Fortuyn is killed by Volkert van der Graaf.
May 7 - Gay Canadian teenager Marc Hall is granted a court injunction ordering that he exist as allowed to attend his high school prom with his young man.
May 9 - The 38-day have-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end whenever a Palestinians inside agreed to stand Baker's dozen suspected activist among the babies deported to many different countries. A standoff began April 2.
May 9 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-control bomb explodes during the holiday parade, killing 43 & injuring at least 130.
May 10 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life without a possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million inside cash & diamonds.
May 12 - Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a 5-day visit sustaining Fidel Castro becoming the foremost President of the United States, in or even away from professional, to visit a island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
May 15 - The Netherlands: elections for the Lower House.
May 16 - Star Wars: Attack of the Clones is released inside theaters.
May 20 - Restoration of East Timor independence
May 22 - In Washington, DC, Chandra Levy's remains are incurred around Rock Creek Park.
May 22 - American civil rights movement: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: A jury inside Birmingham, Alabama convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls.
May 23 - Irish Football Captain, Roy Keane, Is sent home from either a Expert training videos Camp around Saipan, by Manager Mick McCarthy after an Argument over Step by step videos arrangements. This stimulate the vast Media sensation within Ireland and Britain. Several population were split concluded ii sides & occasionally known as it a 2nd Irish Civil War.
May 23 - First Eurovision Song Contest in a previous Soviet country: Estonia
May 25 - The Boston Celtics come back from twenty-xxvi points down to kill a New Jersey Nets in Game 3 of the National Basketball Association's Eastern Conference Finals.
May 25 - China Airlines Flight 611 broke up touching a Penghu Islands at Taiwan Strait, killing all 225 populatiin on board.
May 26 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge h2o ice deposits on the planet Mars.
May 28 - Washington DC's medical examiner declares that Chandra Levy's death was a effect of homicide.
May 31 through June 30 - 17th Football World Cup in South Korea and Japan
June
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June 1 - The Los Angeles Lakers def the Sacramento Kings 112-106, to win Game 7 of the National Basketball Association's 2002 Western Conference Finals.
June 3 - The "Party in the Palace" requires place at Buckingham Palace, London for Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee celebrations.
June 4 - Quaoar is discovered.
June 4 - Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh ride in the gold state coach from Buckingham Palace to St Paul's Cathedral for a special service marking the Queen's 50 years on the throne. Around New York, the Empire State Building is lit in purple for her honour.
June 5 - Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah home.
June 5 - Mozilla 1.0, a 1st 'official' version, is freed.
June 6 - The United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee announces these are probing Martha Stewart's ImClone stock sales.
June 8 - Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus Williams in straight sets to win the 2002 French Open.
June 10 - Annular solar eclipse.
June 11 - Antonio Meucci was recognised as a number 1 discoverer of the telephone per United States Congress.
June 12 - The Los Angeles Lakers def the New Jersey Nets 4 games to 0 to win a 2002 NBA Finals.
June 13 - The Detroit Red Wings def the Carolina Hurricanes 4 games to 1 in the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals.
June 14 - In Karachi, Pakistan, a car bomb in front of the U.S. consulate kills dozen Pakistanis & injures fifty.
June 18 - Arizona experiences its worst forest fire, burning 462,606 acres (1,872 kilometer²) touching a Mogollon Rim.
June 30 - Brazil defeats Germany 2-0 to win the Football World Cup 2002.
July
July 1 - Russian passenger jet & a consignment plane collide across the town of Uberlingen around Southern Germany - 72 dead
July 5 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq once again rejects new U.North. weapons review proposals
July 10 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson
July 13 - A lighting strike sets off a Sour Biscuit Fire within Oregon and northern California, which is left to burn 499,570 acres (2,022 km²) once eventually contained in September 5.
July 14 - During Bastille Day celebrations, Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.
July 15 - So-known as "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying help to the enemy & for the possession of explosives when you took the commission of a felony. Lindh agrees to serve X years inside prison for both of the charges
July 19 - K-19: The Widowmaker starring Harrison Ford is released.
July 21 - Telecommunications giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history
July 27 - Helen Clark leader of the Labour Party is historically re-elected in the landslide triumph across the Right Wing in the New Zealand general election of 2002.
July 27 - A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes at an air show in Ukraine killing 78 and injuring further than Hundred others, a big air indicate disaster inside history.
August
August 27 - Simon & Schuster sues Michael Pelligrino and Artist Management Group because Pelligrino had wrote a book claiming to be a son of late Mafioso Carlo Gambino
September
September 2 - The opening of the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, successor of the 1972 Conference on the Human Environment, 1983 World Commission on Environment and Development, and a 1992 Conference on Environment & Development.
September 3 - Consolidated Freightways files for bankruptcy
September 5 - A car bomb kills at least 30 humans within Afghanistan, and an apparent assassinatiin attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai fails the equivalent day.
September 5 - The Sour Biscuit Fire within Oregon and northern California, which burned 499,570 acres (2,022 km²), is eventually contained.
September 8 - Typhoon Sinlaku causes huge waves on the Qiantangjiang River in Sheijang Province, China
September 11 - The World Summit on Sustainable Development comes to a close.
September 12 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush, addresses the U.N. & challenges its members to look at a "grave and gathering danger" of Iraq or st& aside when a United States and likeminded nations work.
September 15 - The Swedish parliamentary election leaves Prime Minister Göran Persson and the Social Democrats in power.
September 22 - The German federal election leaves Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, his Social Democrats and the Greens in power
October
October 2 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.S. Congress passes a joint resolution which explicitly authorizes the President to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate.
October 7 - Discovery of Quaoar is announced.
October 11 - Lone bomber explodes the personal-manufactured bomb in the Myyrmanni camping mall northward of Helsinki, Finland - casualties include himself. Watch Myyrmanni bombing.
October 12 - Bali bombing: Terrorists detonate massive bombs within 2 cabaret in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and injuring concluded 300.
October 16 - Iraq disarmament crisis: George W. Bush signs the Iraq war resolution.
October 24 - The Beltway snipers are arrested.
October 25 - U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, his family & staff, come flushed by the plane accident at Eveleth, Minnesota.
November
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November 5 - U.S. Elections: The Republican Party maintains control of the House of Representatives and regains control of the Senate.
November 7 - Iran bans advertising of US products.
November 8 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a guide in Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".
November 9 - In Los Angeles, California, television and film actor Merlin Santana is shot to death when sitting in the rider seat of the friend's car parked on the 3800 prevent of Victoria Avenue.
November 13 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
November 13 - The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and is the causal agent of the brobdingnagian oil spill.
November 14 - Argentina defaults on the Me$805 million World Bank payment
November 15 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
November 16 - A Campaign Against Climate Change march takes place around London from Lincoln's Inn Fields, past Esso offices to the United States Embassy.
November 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
November 21 - NATO Summit in Prague - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia invited to become NATO members.
November 22 - In Nigeria, more than Centred population come flushed at an attack aimed at a contestants of the Miss World contest.
November 25 - US President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security in the largest US government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 (the Senate passed the bill 90-9 on November 19).
December
December 4 - Total solar eclipse
December 7 - Iraq disarmament crisis: As needed per recently passed U.N. resolution, Iraq files a 12,000 page weapons declaration with the U.N. Security Council. Although these are supposed to exist when the complete declaration, these are seen as uncomplete per Security Council & weapons inspectors.
December 10 - High Court of Australia hands down its judgement in the Internet defamation dispute in the case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.
December 18 - Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was released into theaters.
December 24 - Laci Peterson of Modesto, California is reported missing.
December 27 - Suicide truck-bomb attack destroys headquarters of Chechnya's Moscow-backed government, killing 72 people.
December 29 – Communist New People's Army blows up a bust of Ferdinand Marcos in Benguet, Philippines.
Deaths
For extra deaths view: Deaths in 2002
January
January 3 - Freddy Heineken, beer magnate (b. 1923)
January 8 - Alexander Prochorow, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
January 8 - Dave Thomas, American convenient food enterpriser (b. 1932)
January 12 - Stanley Unwin, comedian
January 12 - Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State (b. 1917)
January 13 - Ted Demme, film and television director (b. 1963)
January 16 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
January 16 - Bobo Olson, American boxer
January 16 - Ron Taylor, American actor
January 17 - Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (b. 1916)
January 22 - Peggy Lee, American singer & actress
January 23 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
January 23 - Robert Nozick, philosopher (b. 1938)
January 28 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player
January 28 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book creator (b. 1907)
January 29 - Harold Russell, actor
February
February 6 - Max Perutz, Austrian biologist (b. 1914)
February 8 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)
February 9 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
February 11 - Barry Foster, British actor
February 14 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
February 15 - Howard K. Smith, American television journalist (b. 1914)
February 15 - Kevin Smith, actor (b. 1963)
February 16 - Walter Winterbottom, English football manager (b. 1913)
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February 21 - John Thaw, actor (b. 1942)
February 22 - Chuck Jones, American animator
February 22 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
February 24 - Leo Ornstein, composer and piano player (b. 1912)
February 26 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
February 27 - Spike Milligan, comedian, writer, poet (b. 1918)
February 27 - Mary Stuart, actress
February 28 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)
March
March 14 - Cherry Wilder, author (b. 1930)
March 25 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, British football commentator
March 27 - Milton Berle, American comedian & actor (b. 1908)
March 27 - Dudley Moore, British comedian and actor(b. 1935)
March 27 - Billy Wilder, film screenwriter & director (b. 1906)
March 30 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother), consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
March 31 - Barry Took, British comedian and writer
April
April 5 - Layne Staley, singer (Alice in Chains)
April 8 - Maria Felix, Mexican actress
April 9 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician
April 15 - Byron White, American jock & Supreme Court Justice
April 16 - Franz Krienbühl, Swiss speed skater
April 16 - Robert Urich, actor (cancer)
April 18 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer
April 18 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football streaming video player & grappler (b. 1938)
April 25 - Indra Devi, yoga teacher
April 25 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, rapper (TLC)
April 27 - George Alec Effinger, author (b. 1947)
April 27 - Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector
April 28 - Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
April 28 - Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (b. 1950)
May
May 5 - Hugo Bánzer Suarez, President of Bolivia
May 6 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (assassinated)
May 7 - Seattle Slew, American pureblooded racehorse
May 11 - Joseph Bonanno, Sicilian Mafia boss
May 13 - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian football manager
May 19 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia
May 20 - Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist & creator (b. 1941)
May 21 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)
May 23 - Sam Snead, American golfer
May 26 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian marathon runner (b. 1932)
May 28 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
June
June 1 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
June 4 - Fernando Belaunde Terry, President of Peru
June 5 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
June 6 - Hans Janmaat, Dutch politician
June 7 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess
June 10 - John Gotti, gangster
June 11 - Robbin Crosby, guitarist (Ratt)
June 12 - Bill Blass, fashion designer
June 17 - Willie Davenport, athlete
June 17 - Fritz Walter, footballer
June 18 - Jack Buck, baseball announcer
June 22 - Darryl Kile, baseball player
June 23 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamian boxer
June 24 - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
June 26 - Jay Berwanger, American football player
June 27 - John Entwistle, bassist (The Who)
June 29 - Rosemary Clooney, singer and actress
July
July 4 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., U.S. general
July 5 - Katy Jurado, actress
July 5 - Ted Williams, baseball player
July 6 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
July 6 - John Frankenheimer, film director
July 8 - Ward Kimball, American animator
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