2002

: ''Also see: 2002 (number).''
Year '2002' ('MMII') was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
The year 2002 was designated the:

★ ''International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains''

★ ''Year of the Outback'' in Australia

★ ''National Science Year'' in the United Kingdom

★ ''Autism Awareness Year'' in the United Kingdom
See also: the almanac of events for this year.
The year number was a palindrome (next palindrome year will be 2112).

Contents

Events of 2002

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated

Ongoing

Fictional

Births

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Nobel prizes

Fields Medalists

See also

Notes

External links

Table of Contents

Events of 2002

January

★ January 1 - The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters into force.

★ January 1 - Euro notes and coins issued in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands.

★ January 3 - The University of Miami defeats Nebraska 37-14 in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California to win college football's national championship.

★ January 5 - Charles Bishop, a 15 year-old student pilot, crashes a light 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 will pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.

★ January 10 - Enrique Bolaños begins his 5-year term as President of the Republic of Nicaragua.

★ January 12 - The X (roller coaster) opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California

★ January 13 - In the AFC Divisional Playoffs the New England Patriots defeated the Oakland Raiders 16-13 in overtime at there home finale Foxboro Stadium. The game was remembered as The Tuck when Raiders cornerback Charles Woodson stripe Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

★ January 14 - The asylum case of Adelaide Abankwah is heard in New York.

★ January 16 - Appalachian School of Law shooting: A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, killing 3.

★ January 16 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announces that American Taliban member John Walker Lindh will be tried in the United States.

★ January 16 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and freezes the assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the Taliban.

★ January 17 - The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo displaces an estimated 400,000 people.

★ January 18 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing 1.

★ '' ("The Changeling," 1967): The first interstellar probe, ''Nomad'', is launched.
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★ ''The West Wing'': On November 5, Democratic President Josiah Bartlet of New Hampshire defeats Republican Governor Robert Ritchie of Florida in his reelection bid following the 2002 US presidential election.

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★ The events of ''Resident Evil'' and '' take place between September 29 and September 30, with the T-Virus outbreak occurring in The Hive, and then infiltrating Raccoon City just thirteen hours later.

Births

★ April 30 - Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón, grandson of Juan Carlos I of Spain.

★ May 14 - Margarita Armstrong-Jones, daughter of Viscount Linley and his wife, Viscountess Linley

★ June 8 - Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg

★ July 22 - Prince Felix of Denmark, Prince of Denmark

★ July 30 - Young Crown Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, second in line to the Nepalese throne

★ August 2 - Kara and Shelby Hoffman, American actresses

Deaths

: ''For more, see: Deaths in 2002.''

January

★ January 3 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch-born beer magnate (b. 1923)

★ January 8 - Alexander Prochorow, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)

★ January 8 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)

★ January 12 - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)

★ January 12 - Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State (b. 1917)

★ January 13 - Frank Shuster of the Canadian comic duo Wayne and Shuster (b. 1916)

★ January 13 - Ted Demme, American film and television director (b. 1963)

★ January 16 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)

★ January 16 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)

★ January 16 - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)

★ January 17 - Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (b. 1916)

★ January 20 - Carrie Hamilton, American actress (b. 1963)

★ January 22 - Peggy Lee, American singer and actress (b. 1920)

★ January 23 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)

★ January 23 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)

★ January 28 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)

★ January 28 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author (b. 1907)

★ January 29 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)

February

★ February 1 - Irish McCalla, American actress (b. 1928)

★ February 2 - Danielle Van Dam, American murder victim (b. 1994)

★ February 6 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1914)

★ February 8 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)

★ February 9 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)

★ February 10 - Traudl Junge, German private secretary of Adolf Hitler (b. 1920)

★ February 13 - Waylon Jennings, country music singer (b. 1937)

★ February 14 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)

★ February 15 - Howard K. Smith, American television journalist (b. 1914)

★ February 15 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)

★ February 16 - Walter Winterbottom, English football manager (b. 1913)

★ February 19 - Virginia Hamilton, American writer (b. 1936)

★ February 20 - Willie Thrower, American football player (b. 1930)

★ February 21 - John Thaw, British actor (b. 1942)

★ February 22 - Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912)

★ February 22 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)

★ February 24 - Leo Ornstein, American composer and pianist (b. 1892)

★ February 26 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)

★ February 27 - Spike Milligan, British comedian, writer, and poet (b. 1918)

★ February 27 - Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)

★ February 28 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)

March

★ March 4 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author of children's novels (b. 1913)

★ March 4 - Claire Davenport, British actress (b. 1933)

★ March 4 - Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (b. 1939)

★ March 11 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

★ March 14 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (b. 1930)

★ March 21 - Amanda Dowler, murdered British schoolgirl (b. 1988)

★ March 23 - Ben Hollioake, cricketer (b. 1977)

★ March 24 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)

★ March 25 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, British football commentator (b. 1920)

★ March 27 - Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (b. 1908)

★ March 27 - Dudley Moore, British pianist, comedian, and actor (b. 1935)

★ March 27 - Billy Wilder, Austrian-born film screenwriter and director (b. 1906)

★ March 30 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)

April

★ April 1 - Meryem Altun, Turkish hunger striker

★ April 4 - John Kaufman, Sculptor

★ April 5 - Layne Staley, American singer (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967)

★ April 8 - Maria Felix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)

★ April 9 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)

★ April 13 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)

★ April 15 - Byron White, American athlete and Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)

★ April 16 - Franz Krienbühl, Swiss speed skater (b. 1929)

★ April 16 - Robert Urich, American actor (cancer) (b. 1946)

★ April 18 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)

★ April 18 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)

★ April 22 - Linda Boreman, also know as actress Linda Lovelace in Deep Throat (b. 1949)

★ April 25 - Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)

★ April 25 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)

★ April 27 - George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)

★ April 27 - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)

★ April 28 - Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)

May

★ May 5 - Hugo Bánzer Suarez, President of Bolivia (b. 1926)

★ May 6 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (assassinated) (b. 1948)

★ May 7 - Seattle Slew, Famous American racehorse (b. 1974)

★ May 11 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)

★ May 13 - Ruth Cracknell, Australian theatre and television actor (b. 1925)

★ May 13 - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian football manager

★ May 18 - Davey Boy Smith, "The British Bulldog", professional wrestler (b. 1962)

★ May 19 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)

★ May 20 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist and author (b. 1941)

★ May 21 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)

★ May 23 - Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)

★ May 24 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (b. 1926)

★ May 26 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)

★ May 26 - A barge collides into the Interstate 40 bridge across the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, leaving 14 dead.

★ May 28 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)

June

★ June 1 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)

★ June 4 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (b. 1912)

★ June 5 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)

★ June 6 - Hans Janmaat, Dutch politician (b. 1934)

★ June 7 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)

★ June 10 - John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)

★ June 11 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (AIDS) (b. 1959)

★ June 12 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)

★ June 17 - Willie Davenport, American athlete (b. 1943)

★ June 17 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)

★ June 18 - Jack Buck, baseball announcer (b. 1924)

★ June 22 - Darryl Kile, baseball player (b. 1968)

★ June 23 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamian boxer (b. 1975)

★ June 24 - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)

★ June 26 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)

★ June 26 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)

★ June 27 - John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944)

★ June 29 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)

July

★ July 4 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., U.S. general (b. 1912)

★ July 5 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)

★ July 5 - Ted Williams, baseball player (b. 1918)

★ July 6 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)

★ July 6 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)

★ July 8 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1913)

★ July 9 - Laurence Janifer, American writer (b. 1933)

★ July 9 - Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)

★ July 13 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer (b. 1908)

★ July 14 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)

★ July 16 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)

★ July 19 - Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist (b. 1915)

★ July 23 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)

★ July 23 - William Luther Pierce, Professor of Physics and Neo-Nazi leader (b. 1933)

★ July 23 - Chaim Potok, American author and rabbi (b. 1929)

★ July 25 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)

★ July 28 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

August

★ August 4 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)

★ August 5 - Josh Ryan Evans, actor (b. 1982)

★ August 5 - Darrell Porter, baseball player (b. 1952)

★ August 5 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)

★ August 5 - Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)

★ August 6 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)

★ August 11 - Galen Rowell, American photographer, writer, and climber (plane crash) (b. 1940)

★ August 12 - Enos Slaughter, baseball player (b. 1916)

★ August 14 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)

★ August 15 - Kyle Rote, American football player and coach (b. 1928)

★ August 16 - Abu Nidal, Palestinian militant (b. 1937)

★ August 18 - Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (b. 1918)

★ August 23 - Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player (b. 1922)

★ August 25 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)

★ August 29 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)

★ August 31 - Lionel Hampton, American musician (b. 1908)

★ August 31 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)

★ August 31 - Farhad Mehrad Iranian legendary Musician

September

★ September 11 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)

★ September 18 - Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)

★ September 19 - Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian actor (b. 1971)

★ September 19 - Robert Guéï, military ruler of the Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)

★ September 21 - Robert Lull Forward, American author and physicist (b. 1932)

★ September 23 - Vernon Corea, British broadcaster (b. 1927)

October

★ October 6 - Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)

★ October 9 - Aileen Wournos, American serial killer (b. 1956)

★ October 10 - Teresa Graves, American actress (b. 1948)

★ October 12 - Ray Conniff, American musician and bandleader (b. 1916)

★ October 13 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)

★ October 17 - Derek Bell, Northern Ireland musician (b. 1935)

★ October 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)

★ October 18 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong pop singer (b. 1950)

★ October 24 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)

★ October 25 - Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930)

★ October 25 - Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (b. 1944)

★ October 30 - Jam Master Jay, musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)

November

★ November 2 - Charles Sheffield, English author and physicist (b. 1935)

★ November 3 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (King of Skiffle) (b. 1931)

★ November 7 - Peg Phillips, actress (Northern Exposure) (b. 1918)

★ November 12 - Károly Doncsecz, Slovenian potter, ''Master of folk art'' (b. 1918)

★ November 15 - Myra Hindley, English murderer (b. 1942)

★ November 17 - Abba Eban, Israeli foreign affair minister (b. 1915)

★ November 21 - Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916)

★ November 24 - John Rawls, American political theorist (b. 1921)

★ November 26 - Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (b. 1915)

★ November 28 - Norm McDonald, Australian rules footballer (b. 1925)

December

★ December 3 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)

★ December 5 - Ne Win, Burmese dictator

★ December 6 - Father Philip Berrigan, American priest and political activist (b. 1923)

★ December 6 - Charles Rosen, American pianist and pioneer in artificial intelligence (b. 1927)

★ December 9 - Stan Rice, American painter and poet (b. 1942)

★ December 12 - Nikolai Amosov, Ukrainian heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthusiast (b. 1913)

★ December 18 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor General of Canada (b. 1934)

★ December 22 - Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (b. 1929)

★ December 22 - Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (b. 1952)

★ December 25 - Laci Peterson, American murder victim (b. 1975)

Nobel prizes

★ Peace - Jimmy Carter

★ Literature - Imre Kertész

★ Chemistry - John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich

★ Physics - Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi

★ Physiology or Medicine - Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John E. Sulston

★ Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Daniel Kahneman and Vernon L. Smith

Fields Medalists

★ Laurent Lafforgue, Vladimir Voevodsky

See also

★ 21st century

Notes

External links

★ 2002 Year-End Google Zeitgeist - Google's Yearly List of Major Events and Top Searches for 2002

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