2002 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2002?
- January 1, 2002 – Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union’s member states.
- January 2, 2002 – Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
- January 17, 2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
- February 12, 2002 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
- 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 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 7, 2002 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
- May 20, 2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
- May 22, 2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
- June 13, 2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- July 1, 2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
- July 15, 2002 – “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
- August 20, 2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
- September 20, 2002 – The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
- September 27, 2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
- November 4, 2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
- November 13, 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
- December 27, 2002 – The company Clonaid announces that it has successfully cloned a human being, although it has never presented any verifiable evidence.
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