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
The year number was a palindrome (next palindrome year will be 2112).
Events
January
- January 1 – The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters into force.
- January 1 – Euro notes and coins are issued in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands.
- 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 8 – The No Child Left Behind Act is signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush.
- 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 14 – The asylum case of Adelaide Abankwah is heard in New York.
- January 16 – A student shoots 6 at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, killing 3.
- January 16 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and freezes the assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, 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.
- January 23 – Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan, accused of being a CIA agent by his captors.
- January 27 – Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000. Confirmation needed
- January 31 – A large section of the Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf begins disintegrating, consuming about 3,250 km (1,254 miles) over 35 days.
February
- February 1 – Kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is murdered in Karachi, Pakistan.
- February 2 – Dutch heir apparent Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange marries Máxima, Princess of Orange in Amsterdam.
- February 3 – Costa Rica holds presidential and congressional elections.
- February 3 – Super Bowl XXXVI: The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams 20–17 in New Orleans.
- February 8 –24 – The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- February 12 – The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
- February 12 – The U.S. Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.
- February 13 – Queen Elizabeth 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 Mars 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 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
- February 22 – A Norwegian-facilitated ceasefire begins in Sri Lanka.
- February 23 – FARC kidnaps Ingrid Betancourt in Colombia while she campaigns for the presidency.
- February 27 – A series of riots leaves hundreds dead, after 59 Hindu pilgrims die aboard a train burned by a Muslim mob in Godhra, India.
- February 28 – The ex-currencies of all euro-using nations cease to be legal tender in the European Union.
March
- March 1 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: In eastern Afghanistan, Operation Anaconda begins.
- March 1 – Continuing violence in Ahmedabad, India kills 28; police shoot and kill 5 rioters.
- March 1 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 km above the Earth using an Ariane 5 on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8,500 kg.
- March 1 – STS-109 : Space Shuttle Columbia flies the Hubble Space Telescope service mission, its last before STS-107 .
- March 1 – The Peseta is discontinued as the official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€).
- March 3 – São Tomé and Príncipe hold legislative elections.
- March 4 – Ansett Australia, one of the oldest airlines in the world and the second largest in Australia, ceases operation after collapsing financially. This event also marks the largest job loss in Australian history.
- March 6 – France agrees to return the remains of Saartjie Baartman to South Africa.
- March 10 – Colombia holds legislative elections.
- March 10 – Togo holds parliamentary elections.
- March 12 – In Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her 5 children on June 20 , 2001 . She is later sentenced to life in prison.
- March 14 – 125 vehicles are involved in a massive pile up on Interstate 75 in Ringgold, Georgia.
- March 17 – Portugal holds parliamentary elections.
- March 17 – In Islamabad, Pakistan, the International Protestant Church attack occurs.
- March 19 – US war in 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 and 3 others are charged with the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- March 24 – The 74th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California with the film A Beautiful Mind winning Best Picture.
- March 27 – A suicide bomber kills 28 in Netanya, Israel.
- March 31 – Ukraine holds parliamentary elections.
April
- April 1 – Maryland defeats Indiana 64–52 to win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.
- April 2 – Israeli forces besiege the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, when militants take shelter there.
- April 9 – The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother takes place in Westminster Abbey, London.
- April 11 – April 14 – A military coup d'état against the leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez fails.
- April 15 – An Air China Boeing 767-200 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Pusan, South Korea, killing 128.
- April 17 – Four Canadian infantrymen are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from 2 US F-16s.
- April 18 – The discovery of a new insect order, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.
- April 21 – French presidential election, 2002: The first round results in a runoff between Jacques Chirac and the leader of the main French far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
- April 22 – At a special session of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Director-General Jose Bustani is fired.
- April 25 – Soyuz TM-34 : South African Mark Shuttleworth blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; he had paid £15 million for the trip.
- April 26 – Robert Steinhäuser opens fire on his f
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