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Gregorian Year
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 Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
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 Frontby government forces.[4] February[edit] ·
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[edit] ·
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[edit] ·
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[edit] ·
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[edit] ·
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[edit] ·
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[edit] ·
August 26 – Earth Summit 2002 begins
in Johannesburg, South Africa, aimed at discussing sustainable developmentby
the United Nations.[27] September[edit] ·
September 10 – Switzerland joins
the United Nations as
the 190th member state after rejecting a place in 1986.[28] ·
September 19 – General Robert Guéď 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] October[edit] ·
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[edit] ·
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] ·
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[edit] ·
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[edit]
January[edit] ·
January 17 – Samuel, American-South Korean singer ·
January 25 – Lil Mosey, American rapper February[edit] ·
February 4 – Graham Verchere, Canadian actor ·
February 5 – Davis Cleveland, American actor ·
February 13 – Sophia Lillis, American actress March[edit] ·
March 4 – Jacob Hopkins, American actor ·
March 16 – Isabelle Allen, English actress April[edit]
·
April 8 – Skai Jackson, American actress ·
April 16 – Sadie Sink, American actress May[edit] ·
May 14 – Lady
Margarita Armstrong-Jones, grand-niece of Elizabeth II, member of the British royal family ·
May 18 – Alina Zagitova, Russian figure skater June[edit] ·
June 2 – Madison Hu, American actress ·
June 25 – Mason Vale Cotton,
American actor July[edit] ·
July 21 – Rika Kihira, Japanese figure skater ·
July 22 – Prince Felix of
Denmark ·
July 24 – Benjamin Flores Jr.,
American actor and rapper August[edit] ·
August 1 – Oona Laurence, American actress ·
August 19 – Brighton Sharbino,
American actress ·
August 30 – Raffey Cassidy, English actress September[edit]
·
September 6 – Asher Angel, American actor ·
September 8 – Gaten Matarazzo, American actor ·
September 27 – Jenna Ortega, American actress ·
Levi Miller, Australian actor ·
Maddie Ziegler, American dancer October[edit] ·
October 2 – Jacob Sartorius, American singer ·
Rio Mangini, American actor ·
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 November[edit] ·
November 13 – Nikki Hahn, American actress ·
November 20 – Madisyn Shipman, American actress December[edit] ·
December 23 – Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician Deaths[edit]
Main article: Deaths in 2002 January[edit]
·
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) ·
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) ·
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
(b. 1930) ·
Robert Nozick, American philosopher
(b. 1938) ·
January 28 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book
author (b. 1907) February[edit]
·
Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963) ·
Hildegard Knef, German actress (b. 1925) ·
George Nader, American actor (b. 1921) ·
Count Sigvard
Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1907) ·
February 6 – Max Perutz, Austrian-born Nobel molecular
biologist (b. 1914) ·
Zizinho, Brazilian football player (b. 1921) ·
Esther Afua Ocloo,
Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending (b. 1919) ·
Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore
(b. 1936) ·
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) ·
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) March[edit]
Queen
Elizabeth The Queen Mother ·
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[edit]
·
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[edit]
·
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) ·
May 11 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster
(b. 1905) ·
May 13 – Valeriy Lobanovskyi,
Ukrainian football manager (b. 1939) ·
May 17 – László Kubala,
Hungarian footballer (b. 1927) ·
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[edit]
·
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[edit]
·
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) ·
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[edit]
·
August 5 – Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982) ·
August 6 – Edsger W. Dijkstra,
Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930) ·
August 14 – Dave Williams,
American musician (b. 1972) ·
August 16 – Abu Nidal, Palestinian militant (b. 1937) ·
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) ·
Lionel Hampton, American musician (b. 1908) ·
George Porter, English Nobel chemist
(b. 1920) September[edit] ·
September 7 – Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938) ·
September 10 – Žarana Papić,
Serbian anthropologist (b. 1949) ·
Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922) ·
Johnny Unitas, American football player
(b. 1933) ·
September 18 – Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942) ·
September 19 – Robert Guéď, Ivorian military ruler
(b. 1941) October[edit]
·
October 6 – Prince
Claus of the Netherlands, prince consort of the Netherlands
(b. 1926) ·
October 9 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer
(b. 1956) ·
October 10 – Teresa Graves, American actress and comedian
(b. 1948) ·
Ray Conniff, American musician and
bandleader (b. 1916) ·
Audrey Mestre, French freediver (b. 1974) ·
Nozomi Momoi, Japanese AV idol (b. 1977) ·
October 13 – Stephen Ambrose, American historian and
biographer (b. 1936) ·
October 18 – Nikolay
Rukavishnikov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1932) ·
Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota
(b. 1944) ·
Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930) ·
October 28 – Margaret Booth, American film editor
(b. 1898) ·
October 30 – Jam Master Jay, American Hip-Hop DJ
(b. 1965) ·
October 31 – Michail
Stasinopoulos, 1st President of Greece (b. 1903) November[edit]
·
November 9 – Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976) ·
November 12 – Károly Doncsecz,
Slovenian potter (b. 1918) ·
Sohn Kee-Chung, Korean Olympic athlete
(b. 1912) ·
Roberta
Leighton, American drag racer ·
November 17 – Abba Eban, Israeli politician and diplomat,
3rd Foreign Minister of Israel (b. 1915) ·
James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928) ·
Zaldy Zshornack, Filipino actor (b. 1937) ·
November 24 – John Rawls, American political theorist
(b. 1921) December[edit]
·
December 3 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970) ·
December 5 – Ne Win, Burmese military commander, 4th
President of Burma (b. 1910) ·
December 12 – Edward
Harrison, English cricketer and squash player (b. 1910) ·
December 18 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian statesman,
24th Governor
General of Canada (b. 1934) ·
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[edit]
·
Chemistry – John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich ·
Economics – Daniel Kahneman and Vernon L. Smith ·
Peace – Jimmy Carter ·
Physics – Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz,
and John E. Sulston See also[edit] |
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