2002 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2002?
- January 22, 2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- February 12, 2002 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 22, 2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
- February 27, 2002 – Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
- March 3, 2002 – Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
- April 4, 2002 – In what is known as the Society Murders, Matthew Wales kills his parents in Melbourne, Australia.
- April 27, 2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
- May 2, 2002 – Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala.
- May 22, 2002 – In Washington, D.C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
- May 23, 2002 – The “55 parties” clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
- May 25, 2002 – A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
- June 15, 2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75000 mi, about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
- June 24, 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
- June 29, 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.
- August 19, 2002 – A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
- September 10, 2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
- September 23, 2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.
- October 24, 2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
- November 13, 2002 – The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
- December 27, 2002 – Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
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