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Events on the year of 2002 in history

Events
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01 Jan 2002 The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force.
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01 Jan 2002 Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
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01 Jan 2002 Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states.
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03 Jan 2002 Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
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08 Jan 2002 President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
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16 Jan 2002 The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
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17 Jan 2002 Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
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18 Jan 2002 Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
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22 Jan 2002 Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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23 Jan 2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
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23 Jan 2002 "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
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27 Jan 2002 An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
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28 Jan 2002 TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 92.
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29 Jan 2002 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
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01 Feb 2002 Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
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12 Feb 2002 An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
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12 Feb 2002 The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
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19 Feb 2002 NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
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22 Feb 2002 Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
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24 Feb 2002 XIX winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City UT/Qu
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27 Feb 2002 Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
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27 Feb 2002 Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
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28 Feb 2002 During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
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01 Mar 2002 The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
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01 Mar 2002 The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 mi) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (8.5 tons).
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01 Mar 2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
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02 Mar 2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
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04 Mar 2002 Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
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19 Mar 2002 Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
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27 Mar 2002 Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors and the injury of 19 others.
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27 Mar 2002 Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
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29 Mar 2002 In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
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02 Apr 2002 Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated; a siege ensues.
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04 Apr 2002 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
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11 Apr 2002 Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announces Hugo Chávez resignation on national TV.
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11 Apr 2002 The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
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12 Apr 2002 A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
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14 Apr 2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
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14 Apr 2002 66th Golf Masters Championship
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26 Apr 2002 Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
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27 Apr 2002 The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
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03 May 2002 A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
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04 May 2002 EAS Airlines Flight 4226 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff, killing 149 people.
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09 May 2002 The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
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10 May 2002 F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
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12 May 2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
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20 May 2002 The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
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22 May 2002 In Washington, D.C., the remains of Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
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22 May 2002 American civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
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23 May 2002 The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
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24 May 2002 Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
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25 May 2002 China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
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26 May 2002 The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.
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28 May 2002 The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
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28 May 2002 NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
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28 May 2002 The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
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06 Jun 2002 Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
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10 Jun 2002 The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
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11 Jun 2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
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13 Jun 2002 The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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13 Jun 2002 Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the U.S.
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14 Jun 2002 Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
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22 Jun 2002 An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
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29 Jun 2002 Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
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01 Jul 2002 The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
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01 Jul 2002 Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board.
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02 Jul 2002 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
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10 Jul 2002 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.
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14 Jul 2002 French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
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15 Jul 2002 "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
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15 Jul 2002 Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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24 Jul 2002 Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
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25 Jul 2002 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam became the 11th president of India.
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04 Aug 2002 Soham murders: Ten-year-old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
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10 Sep 2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
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20 Sep 2002 The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
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23 Sep 2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
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25 Sep 2002 The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
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26 Sep 2002 The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
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27 Sep 2002 Timor-Leste joins the United Nations.
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02 Oct 2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
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06 Oct 2002 The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
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11 Oct 2002 A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
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12 Oct 2002 Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
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16 Oct 2002 Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
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23 Oct 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
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24 Oct 2002 Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
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26 Oct 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
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29 Oct 2002 Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
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31 Oct 2002 A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
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04 Nov 2002 Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
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28 Nov 2002 Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
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13 Dec 2002 European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
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17 Dec 2002 Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
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18 Dec 2002 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
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23 Dec 2002 An MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25.
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27 Dec 2002 Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.
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