2002 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2002?
- January 1, 2002 – Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
- January 16, 2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
- January 27, 2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
- February 4, 2002 – Cancer Research UK, the world’s largest independent cancer research charity, is founded.
- February 12, 2002 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 19, 2002 – NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
- March 21, 2002 – In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- March 29, 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.
- April 12, 2002 – A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
- April 27, 2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
- May 4, 2002 – An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
- May 12, 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.
- May 24, 2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
- July 2, 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
- July 27, 2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
- September 23, 2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.
- October 12, 2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
- October 23, 2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
- November 14, 2002 – Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
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