2002
2002
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| Gregorian calendar | 2002 MMII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2755 |
| Armenian calendar | 1451 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6752 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 158–159 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1923–1924 |
| Bengali calendar | 1409 |
| Berber calendar | 2952 |
| British Regnal year | 50 Eliz. 2 – 51 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2546 |
| Burmese calendar | 1364 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7510–7511 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4698 or 4638 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4699 or 4639 |
| Coptic calendar | 1718–1719 |
| Discordian calendar | 3168 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1994–1995 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5762–5763 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2058–2059 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1923–1924 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5102–5103 |
| Holocene calendar | 12002 |
| Igbo calendar | 1002–1003 |
| Iranian calendar | 1380–1381 |
| Islamic calendar | 1422–1423 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 14 (平成１４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1934–1935 |
| Juche calendar | 91 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4335 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 91 民國91年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 534 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2545 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 2128 or 1747 or 975 — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 2129 or 1748 or 976 |
| Unix time | 1009843200 – 1041379199 |
2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2002nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 2nd year of the 3rd millennium, the 2nd year of the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2000s decade.
2002 was designated as:
International Year of Ecotourism
International Year of Mountains
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
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| 2002 by topic: | |
| Arts | |
| Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Rock, Metal, UK) – Radio – Photo – Television – Video gaming | |
| Politics | |
| Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors | |
| Science and technology | |
| Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight | |
| Sports | |
| Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Volleyball | |
| By place | |
| Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Angola – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Barbados – Belgium – Benin – Bhutan – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Brazil – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czechia – Denmark – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Gabon – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Guatemala – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Japan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kuwait – Laos – Latvia - Lebanon – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Malawi – Malaysia – Mali – Mexico – Moldova – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palestine – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – South Africa – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tanzania – Thailand – Tunisia – Turkey – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe | |
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| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Works and introductions categories | |
| Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain | |
| Gregorian calendar | 2002 MMII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2755 |
| Armenian calendar | 1451 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6752 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 158–159 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1923–1924 |
| Bengali calendar | 1409 |
| Berber calendar | 2952 |
| British Regnal year | 50 Eliz. 2 – 51 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2546 |
| Burmese calendar | 1364 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7510–7511 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4698 or 4638 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4699 or 4639 |
| Coptic calendar | 1718–1719 |
| Discordian calendar | 3168 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1994–1995 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5762–5763 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2058–2059 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1923–1924 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5102–5103 |
| Holocene calendar | 12002 |
| Igbo calendar | 1002–1003 |
| Iranian calendar | 1380–1381 |
| Islamic calendar | 1422–1423 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 14 (平成１４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1934–1935 |
| Juche calendar | 91 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4335 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 91 民國91年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 534 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2545 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 2128 or 1747 or 975 — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 2129 or 1748 or 976 |
| Unix time | 1009843200 – 1041379199 |
Events
January
January 1 The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters into force.[1] The Euro is officially introduced in the Eurozone countries.[2] The former currencies of all the countries that use the Euro ceased to be legal tender on February 28.[3]
January 17 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
January 18 – The Sierra Leone Civil War comes to a conclusion with the defeat of the Revolutionary United Front by government forces.[4]
February
February 6 – Queen Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth Realms celebrates her Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years since her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.[5]
February 8–24 – The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City, Utah.[6]
February 12 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former president of Yugoslavia, begins at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.[7]
February 19 – NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.[8]
February 22 – UNITA guerilla leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in clashes against government troops led by Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos in Moxico Province, Angola.[9] His death leads to the end of the Angolan Civil War on April 4.[10]
March
March 1 – The Envisat environmental satellite is launched, with its purpose being the recording of information on environmental change.[11]
March 27 – A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 people and injures 140 others at a hotel in Netanya, Israel,[12] triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank, two days later.[13]
April
April 2 – Israeli forces besiege the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, when militants took shelter there. The siege would last for 38 days.[14]
April 9 – The Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother takes place at Westminster Abbey, London.
April 15 – Air China Flight 129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people.[15]
April 25 – South African Mark Shuttleworth blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz TM-34, becoming the first African space tourist.[16]
May
May 20 – East Timor regains its independence after 2-and-a-half years of United Nations administration and 26 years of occupation by Indonesia since 1975.[17]
May 24 – In Moscow, United States President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin sign the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty to replace the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 and the START II Treaty of 1993.[18]
May 25 – A Boeing 747 operating as China Airlines Flight 611 breaks up and crashes in the Taiwan Strait, killing all 225 passengers and crew on board.
May 31 – June 30 – The 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan;[19] which is ultimately won by Brazil.[20]
June
June 6 – An object with an estimated diameter of 10 meters collides with Earth over the Mediterranean and detonates in mid-air.[21]
June 10 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.[22]
June 24 – A passenger train collides with a freight train in Dodoma Region, Tanzania, killing 281 people, making it the worst rail accident in African history.[23]
July
July 1 The Rome Statute comes into force, thereby establishing the International Criminal Court.[24] A Russian passenger jet and cargo plane collide over the town of Überlingen, Germany, killing 71 people.[25]
July 9 – The Organisation of African Unity is disbanded and replaced by the African Union.[26]
August
August 26 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa, aimed at discussing sustainable development by the United Nations.[27]
September
September 10 – Switzerland joins the United Nations as the 190th member state after rejecting a place in 1986.[28]
September 19 – General Robert Guéï leads an army mutiny in an attempt to overthrow Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, resulting in civil war.[29]
September 25 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact, occurs in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.[30]
September 26 – The Senegalese passenger ferry MV Le Joola capsizes in a storm off the coast of the Gambia, killing 1,863 people.[31]
September 27 – East Timor is admitted to the United Nations as the 191st member state;[32] it also changes its official longform name from "Democratic Republic of East Timor" to "Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste".
October
October 12 – Jemaah Islamiyah militants detonate multiple bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Indonesia, killing 202 people and injuring over 300 in the worst terrorist act in Indonesia's history.[33]
October 23–25 – Chechen rebels take control of the Nord-Ost theatre in Moscow and hold the audience hostage. At least 170 people are killed following a Russian attempt to subdue the militants.[34]
November
November 7 – A sovereignty referendum is held in Gibraltar. The people reject Spanish sovereignty.[35]
November 8 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 1441, forcing Iraq to either disarm or face "serious consequences".[36] Iraq agrees to the terms of the resolution on November 13.[36]
November 19 – Prestige oil spill: Greek oil tanker MV Prestige splits in half off the coast of Galicia after spilling an estimated 17.8M US gallons (420,000 bbl) in the worst environmental disaster in the history of the Iberian Peninsula.
November 25 – U.S. President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, in the largest U.S. government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947.[37] Following a several month-long transitional period, it commences operations the following year.
November 28 – 2002 Mombasa attacks: Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, but their colleagues failed in their attempt to bring down an Arkia Israel Airlines charter flight with surface-to-air-missiles.
December
December 23 – A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.[38]
Births
January 17 – Samuel, American-South Korean singer
January 25 – Lil Mosey, American rapper
February 4 – Graham Verchere, Canadian actor
February 5 – Davis Cleveland, American actor
February 13 – Sophia Lillis, American actress
March 16 – Isabelle Allen, English actress
April 4 – Daniel Grassl, Italian skater
April 8 – Skai Jackson, American actress
April 16 – Sadie Sink, American actress
May 18 – Alina Zagitova, Russian figure skater
June 2 – Madison Hu, American actress
June 25 – Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
July 21 – Rika Kihira, Japanese figure skater
July 22 – Prince Felix of Denmark
July 24 – Benjamin Flores Jr., American actor and rapper
August 1 – Oona Laurence, American actress
August 19 – Brighton Sharbino, American actress
September 6 – Asher Angel, American actor
September 8 – Gaten Matarazzo, American actor
September 17 – Zinaida Kupriyanovich, Belarusian singer and presenter
September 27 – Jenna Ortega, American actress
September 30 Levi Miller, Australian actor Maddie Ziegler, American dancer
October 2 – Jacob Sartorius, American singer
October 6 – Cleopatra Stratan, Moldovan singer
October 12 – Iris Apatow, American actress
October 15 – Malu Trevejo, Cuban-American social media personality
October 16 – Madison Wolfe, American actress
October 29 – Ruel, Australian singer-songwriter
November 1 – NLE Choppa, American rapper
November 6 – Mya-Lecia Naylor, English actress (d. 2019)
November 20 – Madisyn Shipman, American actress
November 25 – Emilio Osorio, Mexican actor and singer
December 23 – Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician
Deaths
January
January 6 – Sanya Dharmasakti, 12th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1907)
January 8 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian Nobel physicist (b. 1916)
January 12 – Cyrus Vance, American politician, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1917)
January 13 – Ted Demme, American director and producer (b. 1963)
January 16 – Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
January 17 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (b. 1916)
January 18 – Celso Daniel, Brazilian politician (b. 1951)
January 19 Martti Miettunen, 2-Time Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1907) Vavá, Brazilian footballer (b. 1934)
January 21 – Peggy Lee, American singer and actress (b. 1920)
January 23 Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930) Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
January 28 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author (b. 1907)
January 31 – Gabby Gabreski, Polish-American fighter ace (b. 1919)
February
February 1 Hildegard Knef, German actress (b. 1925) Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
February 4 Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1907) George Nader, American actor (b. 1921)
February 6 – Max Perutz, Austrian-born Nobel molecular biologist (b. 1914)
February 8 Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (b. 1936) Esther Afua Ocloo, Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending (b. 1919) Zizinho, Brazilian football player (b. 1921)
February 9 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (b. 1930)
February 10 – Traudl Junge, German private secretary of Adolf Hitler (b. 1920)
February 12 – John Eriksen, Danish footballer (b. 1957)
February 13 – Waylon Jennings, American country music singer (b. 1937)
February 14 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
February 15 – Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
February 19 – Sylvia Rivera, American transgender activist (b. 1951)
February 22 Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912) Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel and political leader (b. 1934)
February 25 – Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
February 26 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
February 27 – Spike Milligan, British-Irish comedian (b. 1918)
March
March 9 – Irene Worth, American actress (b. 1916)
March 11 – James Tobin, American Nobel economist (b. 1918)
March 12 – Spyros Kyprianou, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1932)
March 13 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
March 20 – Ibn al-Khattab, Saudi guerrilla (b. 1969)
March 24 – César Milstein, Argentine Nobel biochemist (b. 1927)
March 27 Milton Berle, American comedian (b. 1908) Dudley Moore, English pianist, comedian, and actor (b. 1935) Billy Wilder, Polish-American film screenwriter and director (b. 1906)
March 30 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (b. 1900)
April
April 1 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (b. 1905)
April 5 – Layne Staley, American singer (b. 1967)
April 8 – María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
April 16 Ramiro de León Carpio, 31st President of Guatemala (b. 1942) Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
April 18 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
April 22 – Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (b. 1949)
April 25 – Lisa Lopes, American rapper (b. 1971)
April 27 – George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
May
May 3 – Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, 2-Time Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1928)
May 5 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian politician, 62nd and 75th President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
May 6 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician, author and professor (b. 1948)[39]
May 11 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)[40]
May 13 – Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian football manager (b. 1939)
May 17 László Kubala, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927) Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
May 18 – Davey Boy Smith, British professional wrestler (b. 1962)
May 19 – John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
May 20 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist and author (b. 1941)
May 21 – Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)
May 24 – Susie Garrett, American actress (b. 1929)
May 26 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
May 28 – Napoleon Beazley, juvenile convicted murderer (b. 1976)
June
June 4 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician, 2-Time President of Peru (b. 1912)
June 5 – Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (b. 1951)
June 6 – Robbin Crosby, American rock guitarist (b. 1959)
June 7 – Lilian, Princess of Réthy, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
June 10 – John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
June 15 – Choi Hong Hi, Korean martial artist (b. 1918)
June 24 – Pierre Werner, Luxembourgian politician, 19th and 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
June 25 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
June 27 – John Entwistle, English bassist (b. 1944)
June 29 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
July
July 2 – Ray Brown, American bassist (b. 1926)
July 5 Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924) Ted Williams, American baseball player (b. 1918)
July 6 Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932) John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
July 8 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
July 9 – Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)[41]
July 13 – Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer (b. 1908)
July 14 – Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician, 41st, 45th and 49th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
July 16 – John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
July 17 – Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (b. 1911)
July 19 – Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist (b. 1915)
July 21 – Antti Koivumäki, Finnish poet and musician (b. 1976)
July 22 – Chuck Traynor, American pornographer (b. 1937)
July 23 – Chaim Potok, American author and rabbi (b. 1929)
July 28 – Archer Martin, English Nobel chemist (b. 1910)
August
August 5 – Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
August 6 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)[42]
August 14 – Dave Williams, American musician (b. 1972)
August 16 – Abu Nidal, Palestinian militant (b. 1937)[43]
August 21 – Adelina Domingues, World's oldest person between May and August 2002 (b. 1888)
August 29 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish Actor, (b. 1920)
August 30 – Zaid ibn Shaker, 3-Time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1934)
August 31 Lionel Hampton, American musician (b. 1908) George Porter, English Nobel chemist (b. 1920)
September
September 7 – Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
September 10 – Žarana Papić, Serbian anthropologist (b. 1949)
September 11 Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922) Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
September 18 – Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
September 19 – Robert Guéï, Ivorian military ruler (b. 1941)[44]
September 20 – Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian actor (b. 1971)
September 22 – Mickey Newbury, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
October
October 6 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands, prince consort of the Netherlands (b. 1926)[45]
October 9 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (b. 1956)
October 10 – Teresa Graves, American actress and comedian (b. 1948)
October 12 Ray Conniff, American musician and bandleader (b. 1916) Audrey Mestre, French freediver (b. 1974) Nozomi Momoi, Japanese AV idol (b. 1977)
October 13 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
October 18 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1932)
October 24 – Harry Hay, American gay rights activist, communist and labor advocate (b. 1912)
October 25 Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930) Paul Wellstone, American academic, author and politician (b. 1944)
October 28 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
October 30 – Jam Master Jay, American Hip-Hop DJ (b. 1965)[46]
October 31 – Michail Stasinopoulos, 1st President of Greece (b. 1903)
November
November 9 – Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
November 12 – Károly Doncsecz, Slovenian potter (b. 1918)
November 14 – Eddie Bracken, American actor (b. 1915)
November 15 Roberta Leighton, American drag racer Sohn Kee-Chung, Korean Olympic athlete (b. 1912)
November 17 – Abba Eban, Israeli politician and diplomat, 3rd Foreign Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
November 18 James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)[47] Zaldy Zshornack, Filipino actor (b. 1937)
November 24 – John Rawls, American political theorist (b. 1921)
December
December 2 — Ivan Illich, Austrian philosopher and Catholic priest (b. 1926)
December 3 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
December 5 – Ne Win, Burmese military commander, 4th President of Burma (b. 1910)
December 9 – Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker (b. 1944)
December 12 – Edward Harrison, English cricketer and squash player (b. 1910)
December 18 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian statesman, 24th Governor General of Canada (b. 1934)
December 22 Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese politician, 3rd Prime Minister and 4th President of Guyana (b. 1929) Joe Strummer, English musician (b. 1952)
December 26 – Herb Ritts, American photographer (b. 1952)
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry – John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich
Economics – Daniel Kahneman and Vernon L. Smith
Literature – Imre Kertész
Physics – Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi
Physiology or Medicine – Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John E. Sulston