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2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

The year 2002 was designated the:

The year number was a palindrome (next palindrome year will be 2112).

Events

January

  • January 1Euro notes and coins are issued in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands.

February

Artists concept of the <i>2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft</i>
Artists concept of the 2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft

March

<a href="http://reference.findtarget.com/search/Hubble Space Telescope/" class="wiki">Hubble Space Telescope</a> after servicing by the crew of <a href="http://reference.findtarget.com/search/STS-109/" class="wiki">STS-109</a>
Hubble Space Telescope after servicing by the crew of STS-109
  • March 4Ansett 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.

April

May

  • May 5 – In the second round of the French presidential election, Jacques Chirac is reelected.
  • May 9 – In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-control bomb explodes during a holiday parade, killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
  • May 10FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
  • May 12 – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a 5-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first U.S. President, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

June

  • June 15 – Near Earth Asteroid 2002 MN misses the planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about 1/3 the distance to the moon.

July

  • July 13 – A lightning strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which burns 499,570 acres (2,022 km²).

August

  • August 21 – Forensic experts confirm that bodies found days earlier are those of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman; Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr are charged in relation to their deaths.

September

  • September 8 – Typhoon Sinlaku causes huge waves on the Qiantangjiang River in Sheijang Province, China.

October

November

thumb|175px|The [[Department of Homeland Security is formed in response to terrorist concerns in the United States.]]

December

  • December 7 – As required by the recently passed U.N. resolution, Iraq files a 12,000 page weapons declaration with the U.N. Security Council.

Undated

  • Population Division of the United Nations calculate that 40 million people around the world are infected with HIV.

2002 in fiction

The following are references to year 2002 in fiction:
  • Literature:

  • Comics:
  • * In the comic book series Y: The Last Man, on July 12, 2002 a mysterious plague kills all living creatures with a Y chromosome on the planet.
  • Television:

  • Games:

Births

Deaths

January

thumb|120px|Cyrus Vance

February

thumb|120px|Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
thumb|120px|Howard K. Smith

March

thumb|120px|Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

April

thumb|120px|Byron White

May

thumb|120px|Pim Fortuyn

June

thumb|120px|Dee Dee Ramone
thumb|120px|Fernando Belaúnde Terry

July

thumb|120px|Joaquín Balaguer
thumb|120px|Joseph Luns

August

thumb|120px|Edsger W. Dijkstra

September

October

thumb|120px|Paul Wellstone

November

thumb|120px|Abba Eban

December

thumb|120px|Joe Strummer

Nobel Prizes

Fields Medalists


 
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