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[[February]] [[2002]] : [[January 2002|January]] - '''February''' - [[March 2002|March]] - [[April 2002|April]] - [[May 2002|May]] - [[June 2002|June]] - [[July 2002|July]] - [[August 2002|August]] - [[September 2002|September]] - [[October 2002|October]] - [[November 2002|November]] - [[December 2002|December]]
==Events==
=== [[February 2]], [[2002]] ===
*[[Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange|Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands]], heir to the Dutch throne, marries [[Princess Máxima of the Netherlands|Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti]] in [[Amsterdam]].
=== [[February 3]], [[2002]] ===
*[[American football]]: [[Super Bowl XXXVI]]: [[New England Patriots]] 20, [[Saint Louis Rams]] 17 -- one of the most astonishing upsets in [[Super Bowl]] history.
=== [[February 5]], [[2002]] ===
*Secretary of State [[Colin L. Powell]] says that the [[United States]] is willing to sign a treaty with [[Russia]] on limiting strategic [[nuclear weapon]]s, indicating a possible shift in administration policy after withdrawing, last December, from the [[Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972]]. President [[George W. Bush]] and President [[Vladimir Putin]] are set to hold an arms reduction summit meeting in Moscow in May. - ''Background material: [[nuclear disarmament]], [[nuclear warfare]], [[nuclear proliferation]].''
=== [[February 8]], [[2002]] ===
*The opening ceremony of the [[2002 Winter Olympic Games]], which are held in [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]].
=== [[February 11]], [[2002]] ===
*[[BT Group|British Telecommunications plc]] starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.
=== [[February 20]], [[2002]] ===
*[[Palindrome Day]], At 8:02 pm, on February 20, 2002, the date is read officially as 20:02, 20, 02, 2002. Or 2002 2002 2002.
=== [[February 22]], [[2002]] ===
*[[Chuck Jones]], [[Academy Awards|Academy-Award]]-winning animator, dies at 89.
=== [[February 26]], [[2002]] ===
*12 [[Shiite]] Muslims are killed in a mosque in [[Rawalpindi]], [[Pakistan]].
=== [[February 27]], [[2002]] ===
*[[Alicia Keys]] wins five Grammys.
*Today is the centennial of [[John Steinbeck]]'s birth.
*"[[War on Terrorism]]": The U.S. sends [[Special Operations Forces]] to the [[former Soviet republic of Georgia]] to help combat [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] fighters, though [[Russia]] protests.
*57 people die in [[Godhra]] when a Muslim mob sets fire to a carriage on the [[Sabarmati Express]] filled with [[Vishwa Hindu Parishad]] activists returning from [[Ayodhya]] en route to [[Ahmedabad]]. After detaching the burned carriage, the train continues to [[Vadodara]], where Hindus beat and stab people leaving the train, killing one. A 17-year-old is later killed in Godhra by police trying to disrupt mobs.
*Comedian [[Spike Milligan]] dies from liver disease, aged 83.
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