FEBRUARY 2002

February 2002 : January - 'February' - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December

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Events

Events

=== February 2, 2002 ===

★ Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, heir to the Dutch throne, marries Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in Amsterdam.
=== February 3, 2002 ===

★ American football: Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots 20, Saint Louis Rams 17 -- one of the most astonishing upsets in Super Bowl history.
=== February 5, 2002 ===

★ Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said today that the United States was willing to sign a treaty with Russia on limiting strategic nuclear weapons, indicating a possible shift in administration policy after withdrawing, last December, from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. President George W. Bush and President Vladimir V. Putin are to hold an arms reduction summit meeting in Moscow this May. - ''Background material: nuclear disarmament, nuclear warfare, nuclear proliferation.''
=== February 8, 2002 ===

★ The opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, which are held in Salt Lake City.
=== February 11, 2002 ===

★ British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.
=== February 20, 2002 ===

★ Palindrome Day,