2002 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2002?
- January 1, 2002 – Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
- January 22, 2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- January 29, 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes “regimes that sponsor terror” as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
- 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 27, 2002 – Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
- March 1, 2002 – The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
- March 18, 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
- April 11, 2002 – Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chavez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announced Hugo Chavez resignation on national TV.
- May 6, 2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist.
- May 23, 2002 – The “55 parties” clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
- May 28, 2002 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
- June 13, 2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- July 15, 2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- July 22, 2002 – Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas’s military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
- August 26, 2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa
- September 27, 2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
- October 12, 2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
- November 4, 2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
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