: ''Also see:
2002 (number).''
Year '2002' ('
MMII') was a
common year starting on Tuesday of the
Gregorian calendar.
The year 2002 was designated the:
★ ''International Year of
Ecotourism and
Mountains''
★ ''Year of the
Outback'' in
Australia
★ ''National Science Year'' in the
United Kingdom
★ ''Autism Awareness Year'' in the
United Kingdom
See also:
the almanac of events for this year.
The year number was a
palindrome (next palindrome year will be 2112).
Events of 2002
January
★
January 1 - The
Open Skies mutual
surveillance treaty, initially signed in
1992, officially enters into force.
★
January 1 -
Euro notes and coins issued in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands.
★
January 3 - The
University of Miami defeats
Nebraska 37-14 in the
Rose Bowl in
Pasadena, California to win
college football's national championship.
★
January 5 -
Charles Bishop, a 15 year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a
Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a
copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
★
January 9 - The
United States Department of Justice announces it will pursue a criminal investigation of
Enron.
★
January 10 -
Enrique Bolaños begins his 5-year term as President of the Republic of
Nicaragua.
★
January 12 - The
X (roller coaster) opened at
Six Flags Magic Mountain in
Valencia, Santa Clarita, California
★
January 13 - In the AFC Divisional Playoffs the
New England Patriots defeated the
Oakland Raiders 16-13 in overtime at there home finale
Foxboro Stadium. The game was remembered as
The Tuck when Raiders cornerback
Charles Woodson stripe Patriots quarterback
Tom Brady.
★
January 14 - The asylum case of
Adelaide Abankwah is heard in
New York.
★
January 16 -
Appalachian School of Law shooting: A student shoots 6 people at the
Appalachian School of Law in
Grundy, Virginia, killing 3.
★
January 16 - U.S. Attorney General
John Ashcroft announces that American
Taliban member
John Walker Lindh will be tried in the
United States.
★
January 16 - The
UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and freezes the assets of
Osama bin Laden,
Al-Qaida, and the
Taliban.
★
January 17 - The eruption of
Mount Nyiragongo in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo displaces an estimated 400,000 people.
★
January 18 - A
Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous
ammonia derails outside of
Minot, North Dakota, killing 1.
★ '' ("
The Changeling," 1967): The first interstellar probe, ''
Nomad'', is launched.
:
★ ''
The West Wing'': On
November 5,
Democratic President Josiah Bartlet of
New Hampshire defeats
Republican Governor Robert Ritchie of
Florida in his reelection bid following the
2002 US presidential election.
★ Film:
:
★ The events of ''
Resident Evil'' and '' take place between
September 29 and
September 30, with the
T-Virus outbreak occurring in The Hive, and then infiltrating
Raccoon City just thirteen hours later.
Births
★
April 30 -
Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón, grandson of
Juan Carlos I of
Spain.
★
May 14 -
Margarita Armstrong-Jones, daughter of
Viscount Linley and his wife,
Viscountess Linley
★
June 8 -
Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg
★
July 22 -
Prince Felix of Denmark, Prince of Denmark
★
July 30 -
Young Crown Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, second in line to the Nepalese throne
★
August 2 -
Kara and Shelby Hoffman, American actresses
Deaths
: ''For more, see:
Deaths in 2002.''
January
★
January 3 -
Freddy Heineken, Dutch-born beer magnate (b.
1923)
★
January 8 -
Alexander Prochorow, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1916)
★
January 8 -
Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b.
1932)
★
January 12 -
Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b.
1911)
★
January 12 -
Cyrus Vance,
United States Secretary of State (b.
1917)
★
January 13 -
Frank Shuster of the Canadian comic duo
Wayne and Shuster (b.
1916)
★
January 13 -
Ted Demme, American film and television director (b.
1963)
★
January 16 -
Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b.
1923)
★
January 16 -
Bobo Olson, American boxer (b.
1928)
★
January 16 -
Ron Taylor, American actor (b.
1952)
★
January 17 -
Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (b.
1916)
★
January 20 -
Carrie Hamilton, American actress (b.
1963)
★
January 22 -
Peggy Lee, American singer and actress (b.
1920)
★
January 23 -
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b.
1930)
★
January 23 -
Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b.
1938)
★
January 28 -
Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b.
1928)
★
January 28 -
Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author (b.
1907)
★
January 29 -
Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b.
1914)
February
★
February 1 -
Irish McCalla, American actress (b.
1928)
★
February 2 -
Danielle Van Dam, American murder victim (b.
1994)
★
February 6 -
Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b.
1914)
★
February 8 -
Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b.
1930)
★
February 9 -
Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b.
1930)
★
February 10 -
Traudl Junge, German private secretary of Adolf Hitler (b.
1920)
★
February 13 -
Waylon Jennings, country music singer (b.
1937)
★
February 14 -
Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b.
1922)
★
February 15 -
Howard K. Smith, American television journalist (b.
1914)
★
February 15 -
Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b.
1963)
★
February 16 -
Walter Winterbottom, English football manager (b.
1913)
★
February 19 -
Virginia Hamilton, American writer (b.
1936)
★
February 20 -
Willie Thrower, American football player (b.
1930)
★
February 21 -
John Thaw, British actor (b.
1942)
★
February 22 -
Chuck Jones, American animator (b.
1912)
★
February 22 -
Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b.
1934)
★
February 24 -
Leo Ornstein, American composer and pianist (b.
1892)
★
February 26 -
Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b.
1919)
★
February 27 -
Spike Milligan, British comedian, writer, and poet (b.
1918)
★
February 27 -
Mary Stuart, American actress (b.
1926)
★
February 28 -
Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b.
1920)
March
★
March 4 -
Elyne Mitchell, Australian author of children's novels (b.
1913)
★
March 4 -
Claire Davenport, British actress (b.
1933)
★
March 4 -
Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (b.
1939)
★
March 11 -
James Tobin, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1918)
★
March 14 -
Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (b.
1930)
★
March 21 -
Amanda Dowler, murdered British schoolgirl (b.
1988)
★
March 23 -
Ben Hollioake, cricketer (b.
1977)
★
March 24 -
César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1927)
★
March 25 -
Kenneth Wolstenholme, British football commentator (b.
1920)
★
March 27 -
Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (b.
1908)
★
March 27 -
Dudley Moore, British pianist, comedian, and actor (b.
1935)
★
March 27 -
Billy Wilder, Austrian-born film screenwriter and director (b.
1906)
★
March 30 -
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen consort of
George VI of the United Kingdom (b.
1900)
April
★
April 1 -
Meryem Altun, Turkish
hunger striker
★
April 4 -
John Kaufman, Sculptor
★
April 5 -
Layne Staley, American singer (
Alice in Chains) (b.
1967)
★
April 8 -
Maria Felix, Mexican actress (b.
1914)
★
April 9 -
Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b.
1891)
★
April 13 -
Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b.
1928)
★
April 15 -
Byron White, American athlete and Supreme Court Justice (b.
1917)
★
April 16 -
Franz Krienbühl, Swiss speed skater (b.
1929)
★
April 16 -
Robert Urich, American actor (cancer) (b.
1946)
★
April 18 -
Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b.
1914)
★
April 18 -
Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b.
1938)
★
April 22 -
Linda Boreman, also know as actress Linda Lovelace in Deep Throat (b.
1949)
★
April 25 -
Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b.
1899)
★
April 25 -
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, American rapper (
TLC) (b.
1971)
★
April 27 -
George Alec Effinger, American author (b.
1947)
★
April 27 -
Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b.
1921)
★
April 28 -
Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b.
1916)
May
★
May 5 -
Hugo Bánzer Suarez,
President of Bolivia (b.
1926)
★
May 6 -
Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (assassinated) (b.
1948)
★
May 7 -
Seattle Slew, Famous American racehorse (b.
1974)
★
May 11 -
Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b.
1905)
★
May 13 -
Ruth Cracknell, Australian theatre and television actor (b.
1925)
★
May 13 -
Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian football manager
★
May 18 -
Davey Boy Smith, "The British Bulldog", professional wrestler (b.
1962)
★
May 19 -
John Gorton, nineteenth
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 23 -
Sam Snead, American golfer (b.
1912)
★
May 24 -
Wallace Markfield, American writer (b.
1926)
★
May 26 -
Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b.
1932)
★
May 26 - A barge collides into the
Interstate 40 bridge across the
Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, leaving 14 dead.
★
May 28 -
Jean Berger, German-born composer (b.
1909)
June
★
June 1 -
Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b.
1969)
★
June 4 -
Fernando Belaúnde Terry,
President of Peru (b.
1912)
★
June 5 -
Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (
The Ramones) (b.
1952)
★
June 6 -
Hans Janmaat, Dutch politician (b.
1934)
★
June 7 -
Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b.
1916)
★
June 10 -
John Gotti, American gangster (b.
1940)
★
June 11 -
Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (
Ratt) (AIDS) (b.
1959)
★
June 12 -
Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b.
1922)
★
June 17 -
Willie Davenport, American athlete (b.
1943)
★
June 17 -
Fritz Walter, German footballer (b.
1920)
★
June 18 -
Jack Buck, baseball announcer (b.
1924)
★
June 22 -
Darryl Kile, baseball player (b.
1968)
★
June 23 -
Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamian boxer (b.
1975)
★
June 24 -
Pierre Werner,
Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b.
1913)
★
June 26 -
Arnold Brown, the 11th General of
The Salvation Army (b.
1913)
★
June 26 -
Jay Berwanger, American football player (b.
1914)
★
June 27 -
John Entwistle, English bassist (
The Who) (b.
1944)
★
June 29 -
Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b.
1928)
July
★
July 4 -
Benjamin O. Davis Jr., U.S. general (b.
1912)
★
July 5 -
Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b.
1924)
★
July 5 -
Ted Williams, baseball player (b.
1918)
★
July 6 -
Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b.
1932)
★
July 6 -
John Frankenheimer, American film director (b.
1930)
★
July 8 -
Ward Kimball, American animator (b.
1913)
★
July 9 -
Laurence Janifer, American writer (b.
1933)
★
July 9 -
Rod Steiger, American actor (b.
1925)
★
July 13 -
Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer (b.
1908)
★
July 14 -
Joaquín Balaguer,
President of the Dominican Republic (b.
1906)
★
July 16 -
John Cocke, American computer scientist (b.
1925)
★
July 19 -
Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist (b.
1915)
★
July 23 -
Leo McKern, Australian actor (b.
1920)
★
July 23 -
William Luther Pierce, Professor of Physics and Neo-Nazi leader (b.
1933)
★
July 23 -
Chaim Potok, American author and rabbi (b.
1929)
★
July 25 -
Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian
existentialist philosopher (b.
1917)
★
July 28 -
Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1910)
August
★
August 4 -
Carmen Silvera, British actress (b.
1922)
★
August 5 -
Josh Ryan Evans, actor (b.
1982)
★
August 5 -
Darrell Porter, baseball player (b.
1952)
★
August 5 -
Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b.
1916)
★
August 5 -
Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b.
1920)
★
August 6 -
Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b.
1930)
★
August 11 -
Galen Rowell, American photographer, writer, and climber (plane crash) (b.
1940)
★
August 12 -
Enos Slaughter, baseball player (b.
1916)
★
August 14 -
Dave Williams, American singer (
Drowning Pool) (b.
1972)
★
August 15 -
Kyle Rote, American football player and coach (b.
1928)
★
August 16 -
Abu Nidal, Palestinian militant (b.
1937)
★
August 18 -
Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (b.
1918)
★
August 23 -
Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player (b.
1922)
★
August 25 -
Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b.
1923)
★
August 29 -
Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b.
1920)
★
August 31 -
Lionel Hampton, American musician (b.
1908)
★
August 31 -
George Porter, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1920)
★
August 31 -
Farhad Mehrad Iranian legendary Musician
September
★
September 11 -
Johnny Unitas, American football player (b.
1933)
★
September 18 -
Bob Hayes, American athlete (b.
1942)
★
September 19 -
Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian actor (b.
1971)
★
September 19 -
Robert Guéï, military ruler of the Côte d'Ivoire (b.
1941)
★
September 21 -
Robert Lull Forward, American author and physicist (b.
1932)
★
September 23 -
Vernon Corea, British broadcaster (b.
1927)
October
★
October 6 -
Claus von Amsberg, husband of
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b.
1926)
★
October 9 -
Aileen Wournos, American serial killer (b.
1956)
★
October 10 -
Teresa Graves, American actress (b.
1948)
★
October 12 -
Ray Conniff, American musician and bandleader (b.
1916)
★
October 13 -
Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b.
1936)
★
October 17 -
Derek Bell, Northern Ireland musician (b.
1935)
★
October 18 -
Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b.
1932)
★
October 18 -
Roman Tam,
Hong Kong pop singer (b.
1950)
★
October 24 -
Harry Hay, American activist (b.
1912)
★
October 25 -
Richard Harris, Irish actor (b.
1930)
★
October 25 -
Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (b.
1944)
★
October 30 -
Jam Master Jay, musician (
Run DMC) (b.
1965)
November
★
November 2 -
Charles Sheffield, English author and physicist (b.
1935)
★
November 3 -
Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (
King of Skiffle) (b.
1931)
★
November 7 -
Peg Phillips, actress (
Northern Exposure) (b.
1918)
★
November 12 -
Károly Doncsecz, Slovenian potter, ''Master of folk art'' (b.
1918)
★
November 15 -
Myra Hindley, English murderer (b.
1942)
★
November 17 -
Abba Eban, Israeli foreign affair minister (b.
1915)
★
November 21 -
Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b.
1916)
★
November 24 -
John Rawls, American political theorist (b.
1921)
★
November 26 -
Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (b.
1915)
★
November 28 -
Norm McDonald,
Australian rules footballer (b.
1925)
December
★
December 3 -
Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b.
1970)
★
December 5 -
Ne Win, Burmese dictator
★
December 6 - Father
Philip Berrigan, American priest and political activist (b.
1923)
★
December 6 -
Charles Rosen, American pianist and pioneer in artificial intelligence (b.
1927)
★
December 9 -
Stan Rice, American painter and poet (b.
1942)
★
December 12 -
Nikolai Amosov, Ukrainian heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthusiast (b.
1913)
★
December 18 -
Ray Hnatyshyn,
Governor General of Canada (b.
1934)
★
December 22 -
Desmond Hoyte,
Prime Minister and
President of Guyana (b.
1929)
★
December 22 -
Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (
The Clash) (b.
1952)
★
December 25 -
Laci Peterson, American murder victim (b.
1975)
Nobel prizes
★
Peace -
Jimmy Carter
★
Literature -
Imre Kertész
★
Chemistry -
John B. Fenn and
Koichi Tanaka,
Kurt Wüthrich
★
Physics -
Raymond Davis Jr. and
Masatoshi Koshiba,
Riccardo Giacconi
★
Physiology or Medicine -
Sydney Brenner,
H. Robert Horvitz, and
John E. Sulston
★
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel -
Daniel Kahneman and
Vernon L. Smith
Fields Medalists
★
Laurent Lafforgue,
Vladimir Voevodsky
See also
★
21st century
Notes
External links
★
2002 Year-End Google Zeitgeist - Google's Yearly List of Major Events and Top Searches for 2002
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