2002 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2002?
- January 8, 2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
- January 18, 2002 – Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
- 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.
- March 1, 2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 km above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons).
- March 3, 2002 – Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
- May 28, 2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
- June 10, 2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
- June 13, 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 US.
- June 22, 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 slowness of the victims receiving aid and supplies.
- 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.
- July 7, 2002 – A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
- July 28, 2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
- September 10, 2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
- September 26, 2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of The Gambia killing more than 1,000.
- October 6, 2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
- November 7, 2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products.
- November 21, 2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
- December 8, 2002 – The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be “CARICOM-Cuba Day”—to celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
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