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2002




   * International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains
   * National Science Year in the United Kingdom

Events

   * January 1 - Introduction of Euro banknotes and coins in the European
     Union.
   * 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 is
     going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.
   * January 10 - Enrique Bola–os Geyer assumes the position President of
     the Republic of Nicaragua for the time (2002-2007).
   * January 13 - President George W. Bush faints after choking on a
     pretzel.
   * January 16 - A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of
     Law. Three of those shot die.
   * January 16 - John Ashcroft announces that American Taliban member John
     Walker Lindh would be tried in the United States.
   * January 16 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms
     embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and
     the remaining Taliban.
   * January 17 - Eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of
     the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people
   * January 20 - Inauguration of Churches Uniting in Christ
   * January 22 - AOL Time Warner brings a federal suit against Microsoft
     seeking damages. The suit alleges that the market for AOL's Netscape
     Navigator Internet browser was harmed when Microsoft started to give
     away a competing browser.
   * January 22 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in American
     history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
   * January 24 - Enron hearings begin and terrorist suspect John Walker
     Lindh's hearing begins.
   * January 27 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria
     kills more than 1,000.
   * January 30 - Slobodan Milosevic accuses the United Nations war crimes
     tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him.
   * February 3 - Costa Rica: elections for President and Congress
   * February 8 through February 24 - 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake
     City, Utah
   * February 12 - The trial of former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan
     Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague
   * February 12 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision
     that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear
     repository.
   * February 13 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gives former New York
     City mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knighthood.
   * February 19 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface
     of using its thermal emission imaging system.
   * February 20 - In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, a fire on a train injures
     over 65 and kills at least 370.
   * February 22 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near
     the Philippines killing all 10 aboard.
   * February 28 - Ethnic conflict in India: At least 55 are killed in
     Ahmadabad, India when Hindus burn Muslim homes.
   * March 1 - U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: In eastern Afghanistan, Operation
     Anaconda begins.
   * March 3 - Sao Tome and Principe: elections for the legislature
   * March 10 - Colombia: elections for the legislature; Togo: elections for
     the Parliament
   * March 12 - In Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five
     children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison.
   * March 17 - Portugal: elections for the Parliament
   * March 19 - US Attack on Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started
     on March 1) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11
     allied troop fatalities.
   * March 21 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other
     suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and
     killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
   * March 28 - The exhibit "The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art"
     opens at the National Gallery of Australia.
   * March 31 - Ukraine: elections for the Parliament
   * April 2 - Israeli forces surrounded the Church of the Nativity in
     Bethlehem which has Palestinian terrorists taking hostage of the
     church; around 200 Palestinians inside. A siege ensues.
   * April 17 - Four Canadian infantrymen are killed in Afghanistan by
     friendly fire from two U.S. F-16s
   * April 18 - New order of insects, Mantophasmatodea, announced.
   * April 30 - Pakistan: referendum on continuation of military government
   * May 9 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
     comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agreed to have 13
     suspected militants among them deported to several different countries.
     The standoff started on April 2.
   * May 9 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a
     holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
   * May 10 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life without the
     possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4
     million in cash and diamonds.
   * May 12 - Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day
     visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States,
     in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959
     revolution.
   * May 15 - The Netherlands: elections for the Lower House
   * May 20 - Restoration of East Timor independence
   * May 22 - In Washington, DC, Chandra Levy's remains are found in Rock
     Creek Park.
   * May 22 - American civil rights movement: 16th Street Baptist Church
     bombing - A jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicts former Ku Klux Klan
     member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls.
   * May 23 - First Eurovision Song Contest in a former Soviet country,
     Estonia
   * May 26 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the
     planet Mars.
   * May 28 - Washington DC's medical examiner declares that Chandra Levy's
     death was the result of homicide.
   * May 31 through June 30 - 17th Football World Cup in Japan and South
     Korea
   * June 4 - Quaoar is discovered
   * June 5 - Elizabeth Smart kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home.
   * June 10 - Annular solar eclipse
   * June 18 - Arizona experiences its worst forest fire ever when a local
     sets off the Rodeo-Chediski fire burning 462,606 acres near the
     Mogollon Rim.
   * July 5 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq once again rejects new U.N.
     weapons inspections proposals
   * July 10 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The
     Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million)
     to Lord Thomson.
   * July 13 - A lighting strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon
     and northern California, which is left to burn 499,570 acres when
     finally contained on September 5.
   * July 14 - During Bastille Day celebrations, Jacques Chirac escapes an
     assassination attempt unscathed.
   * July 15 - So-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty
     to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives
     during the commission of a felony. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in
     prison for each of the charges.
   * July 19 - K-19: The Widowmaker starring Harrison Ford is released.
   * July 21 - Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
     protection in the largest such filling in United States history.
   * July 27 - Air show disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes at an air
     show in the Ukraine killing 78 and injuring more than 100 others, the
     largest air show disaster in history.
   * August 2 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq invites chief weapons
     inspector Hans Blix to Iraq for discussions on remaining disarmament
     issues.
   * August 6 - Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United
     States
   * August 17 - In Santa Rosa, California, the Charles M. Schulz Museum
     opens to the public.
   * August 19 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Secretary General rejects
     Iraq's August 2 proposal as the "wrong work program", and instead
     recommends that Iraq allow weapons inspectors to return to the country,
     in accordance with previous U.N. resolutions.
   * September 12 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush,
     addresses the U.N. and challenges its members to confront the "grave
     and gathering danger" of Iraq or stand aside as the United States and
     likeminded nations act.
   * October 2 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The United States Congress passes
     a joint resolution which explicitly authorizes the President to use the
     Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and
     appropriate.
   * October 7 - Discovery of Quaoar is announced
   * October 11 - Bali: Terrorists detonate massive bomb in two nightclubs
     in Kuta, killing hundreds
   * October 11 - Lone bomber explodes a home-made bomb in the Myyrmanni
     shopping mall north of Helsinki, Finland - casualties include himself.
   * October 16 - Iraq disarmament crisis: George W. Bush signs the Iraq war
     resolution
   * November 8 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council unanimously
     approves Iraq resolution, demanding Saddam Hussein disarm or face
     "serious consequences"
   * November 13 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the UN Security
     Council resolution on Iraq
   * November 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN inspectors arrive in Iraq
   * November 29 - Brian Henderson retires from reading the news at Sydney,
     Australia television station TCN-9. At his retirement he held the
     record for the longest serving television newsreader ever, having
     hosted the weekend evening bulletins on the station from 1957 until
     1964 and the weeknight evening news bulletins on the station from 1964
     until he retired in 2002.
   * December 4 - Total solar eclipse
   * December 7 - Iraq disarmament crisis: As required by the recently
     passed U.N. resolution, Iraq files a 12,000 page weapons declaration
     with the U.N. Security Council. Although it is supposed to be a
     complete declaration, it is seen as incomplete by the Security Council
     and weapons inspectors.

Deaths

   * January 3 - Freddy Heineken, former CEO of the beer brewery Heineken.
   * January 5 - Igor Cassini, gossip columnist ("Cholly Knickerbocker")
   * January 4 - Antonio Todde (112), oldest man in the world at the time
     (from Thiana, Sardinia - Italy)
   * January 4 - Esquivel, musician
   * January 8 - Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's International
   * January 8 - Alexander Prochorow (65), Russian physicist, winner of the
     Nobel Prize for Physics 1964
   * January 12 - Cyrus Vance (84), former United States Secretary of State
     (1977-1980)
   * January 13 - Ted Demme (37), film and television director (Blow,
     Beautiful Girls)
   * January 17 - Camilo Jose Cela (85), Spanish author, winner of the Nobel
     Prize for Literature 1989
   * January 21 - Peggy Lee, Jazz performer, most famous for song Fever
     ("You give me fever...")
   * January 22 - Jack Shea, American speed skater (double Olympic Champion
     1932)
   * January 23 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
   * January 23 - Robert Nozick, (philosopher)
   * January 28 - Astrid Lindgren (94), Swedish author of many best selling
     children's novels (Pippi Longstocking, Ronia, the Robber's Daughter,
     The Brothers Lionheart)
   * January 29 - Harold Russell, actor
   * January 29 or January 30 - Daniel Pearl, journalist
   * February 1 - Hildegard Knef (76), actress, singer, writer
   * February 6 - Guy Stockwell, actor
   * February 9 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (71)
   * February 10 - Harold Furth (72), American leader in plasma physics and
     nuclear fusion.
   * February 13 - Waylon Jennings, country musician
   * February 15 - Kevin Smith (38), actor
   * February 15 - Howard K. Smith, journalist
   * February 16 - Walter Winterbottom, the first England football manager.
   * February 21 - John Thaw, actor
   * February 22 - Chuck Jones, animator
   * February 22 - Jonas Savimbi, rebel leader
   * February 26 - Lawrence Tierney, actor
   * February 27 - Spike Milligan, comedian, writer, poet
   * March 11 - James Tobin, economist
   * March 15 - Sylvester Weaver, television executive
   * March 27 - Milton Berle, comedian, actor
   * March 27 - Dudley Moore, comedian, actor
   * March 27 - Billy Wilder (96), film screenwriter and director
   * March 30 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (101), Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the
     Queen Mother
   * March 30 - Anand Bakshi (72), lyricist of over 4,000 songs.
   * April 12 - Elisa Breton (88), surrealist
   * April 18 - Thor Heyerdahl (87), Norwegian explorer on the Kon-Tiki
     expedition.
   * April 23 - Linda Boreman, aka Linda Lovelace, porn star
   * April 25 - Lisa Lopes, singer
   * May 3 - Mohan Singh Oberoi (103), hotelier, founder of the Oberoi chain
     of hotels
   * May 5 - Hugo B‡nzer Suarez (76), Bolivian politician, president of
     Bolivia (1971-1978) (1997-2001)
   * May 6 - Pim Fortuyn (54), Dutch politician
   * May 17 - Dave Berg (81), cartoonist for Mad Magazine
   * May 19 - Walter Lord, writer
   * May 19 - John Gorton, prime minister of Australia
   * May 20 - Stephen Jay Gould (60), paleontologist/evolutionist
   * May 21 - Niki de Saint Phalle, artist
   * May 23 - Sam Snead, golfer
   * May 26 - Mamo Wolde, marathon runner
   * June 4 - Fernando Belaunde Terry (89), Peruvian politician, president
     of Peru (1963-1968) (1980-1985)
   * June 5 - Dee Dee Ramone (49), founding member and bassist of seminal
     punk rock group, The Ramones
   * June 7 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium
   * June 10 - John Gotti (61), Mafia boss
   * June 17 - Fritz Walter (81), German football player
   * June 20 - Timothy Findley (71), Canadian author
   * June 20 - Erwin Chargaff (96), biochemist
   * June 22 - Esther Lederer (83), also known as Ann Landers, advice
     columnist
   * June 27 - John Entwistle (57), bassist for The Who
   * June 29 - Rosemary Clooney (74), singer, actress
   * June 29 - Ole-Johan Dahl (70), computer scientist who invented concepts
     in object-oriented programming
   * July 2 - Ray Brown (75), jazz bassist
   * July 4 - Laurent Schwartz, mathematician
   * July 5 - Ted Williams (83), member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and
     player for the Boston Red Sox
   * July 6 - Dhirubhai Ambani (70), industrialist, founder of Reliance
     group of companies.
   * July 9 - Rod Steiger (77), actor
   * July 14 - Joaquin Balaguer, Dominican politician, president of
     Dominican Republic (1960-1962, 1966-1978, 1986-1996)
   * July 23 - Chaim Potok, novelist
   * August 5 - Chick Hearn, pro-basketball announcer
   * August 6 - Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist
   * August 14 - Dave Williams, the singer of Drowning Pool, found dead on
     the band's tour bus.
   * August 31 - Lionel Hampton (94), vibraphone virtuoso
   * September 11 - Johnny Unitas (69), NFL quarterback
   * September 21 - Robert Lull Forward (70), science fiction author and
     physicist
   * October 6 - Claus von Amsberg (76), husband of Queen Beatrix of the
     Netherlands
   * October 13 - Stephen Ambrose, historian and Dwight Eisenhower
     biographer.
   * October 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut
   * October 25 - Richard Harris (72), Irish actor
   * October 25 - Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator: A Democrat from Minnesota
   * October 28 - Margaret Booth, film editor
   * November 2 - Charles Sheffield (67), science fiction author and
     physicist
   * November 3 - Lonnie Donegan, musician
   * November 3 - Jonathon Harris, actor
   * November 15 - Myra Hindley, Moors murderess
   * November 18 - James Coburn, actor
   * November 26 - Verne Winchell, founder of Winchell's Donuts.
   * December 3 - Glenn Quinn, actor from Angel season 1
   * December 5 - Einar Skinnarland, SOE agent
   * December 5 - Roone Arledge, sports broadcasting pioneer
   * December 11 - Nani Palkhivala (82), jurist
   * December 18 - Ray Hnatyshyn, former Canadian Governor-General
   * December 22 - Joe Strummer, musician
   * December 26 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer

Nobel Prizes

   * Peace: Jimmy Carter, 39th US president "for his decades of untiring
     effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to
     advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social
     development."
   * Literature: Imre KertŽsz, Hungarian writer "for writing that upholds
     the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric
     arbitrariness of history".
   * Economic Sciences:
        o Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University, USA) "for having integrated
          insights from psychological research into economic science,
          especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under
          uncertainty".
        o Vernon L. Smith (George Mason University, USA) "for having
          established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic
          analysis, especially in the study of alternative market
          mechanisms"
   * Chemistry:
        o John B. Fenn (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA) and
          Koichi Tanaka (Shimadzu Corp., Kyoto, Japan) "for their
          development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass
          spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
        o Kurt WŸthrich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH),
          ZŸrich, Switzerland and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla,
          USA) "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance
          spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of
          biological macromolecules in solution"
   * Physics:
        o Raymond Davis Jr. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University
          of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) and Masatoshi Koshiba
          (International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, University
          of Tokyo, Japan) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in
          particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
        o Riccardo Giacconi (Associated Universities Inc., Washington DC,
          USA) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led
          to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
   * Physiology or Medicine:
        o Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston "for their
          discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and
          programmed cell death"

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