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Year '''2002''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MMII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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The year 2002 was designated the:
*''International Year of [[Ecotourism]] and [[Mountain]]s''
*''Year of the [[Outback]]'' in [[Australia]]
*''National Science Year'' in the [[United Kingdom]]
*''Autism Awareness Year'' in the [[United Kingdom]]
See also: [[Current events#Past events by month|the almanac]] of events for this year.
The year number was a [[palindrome]] (next palindrome year will be 2112).
==Events of 2002==
===January===
* [[January 1]] - The [[Treaty on Open Skies|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 in the Netherlands.
* [[January 5]] - [[Charles Bishop (pilot)|Charles Bishop]], a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a [[Tampa, Florida]] building, evoking fear of a [[copycat]] [[September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack|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 [[Appalachian School of Law shooting|shoots six]] at the [[Appalachian School of Law]] in [[Grundy, Virginia]], killing 3.
* [[January 16]] - U.S. Attorney General [[John Ashcroft]] announces that American [[Taliban]] member [[John Walker Lindh]] will be tried in the [[United States]].
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* [[January 16]] - The [[UN Security Council]] unanimously establishes an arms embargo and freezes the assets of [[Osama bin Laden]], [[Al-Qaida]], 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 24]] - Suspected terrorist [[John Walker Lindh]]'s hearing begins.{{noMention}}
* [[January 27]] - Several explosions at a military dump in [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]] killing more than 1,000.{{noMention}}
* [[January 31]] - A large section of the [[Antarctic]] [[Larsen Ice Shelf]] begins disintegrating, consuming about 3,250 km² (1,254 miles²) over 35 days.
===February===
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* [[February 1]] - Kidnapped ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' reporter [[Daniel Pearl]] is murdered in [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]].
* [[February 2]] - Crown [[Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands]] marries [[Máxima, Princess of Orange]] in [[Amsterdam]]. [[Oscar Reutersvärd]] dies.
* [[February 3]] - [[Costa Rica]] holds presidential and congressional elections.
* [[February 3]] - The [[New England Patriots]] beat the [[St. Louis Rams]] 20-17, in [[Super Bowl XXXVI]] in [[New Orleans]].
* [[February 8]] – [[February 24]] - The [[2002 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]].
* [[February 9]] - [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon]], the Queen's sister dies in hospital after suffering a stroke.
* [[February 12]] - The trial of former Yugoslav President [[Slobodan Milosevic]] begins at the [[United Nations]] [[war crime]]s 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]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth]] gives former [[New York City]] mayor [[Rudolph Giuliani]] an honorary [[knighthood]].
[[Image:2001 mars odyssey wizja.jpg|thumb|Artists concept of the ''2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft'']]
* [[February 19]] - [[NASA]]'s [[Mars Odyssey]] [[space probe]] begins to map the surface of [[Mars (planet)|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]] - [[Angola]]n political and rebel leader [[Jonas Savimbi]] is killed in a military ambush.
* [[February 22]] - A Norwegian-facilitated [[ceasefire]] begins in [[Sri Lanka]].
* [[February 23]] - [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia|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===
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[[Image:STS-109-HST-s109e5700.jpg|thumb|Hubble Space Telescope after servicing by the crew of STS-109]]
* [[March 1]] - [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|U.S. invasion of Afghanistan]]: In eastern [[Afghanistan]], [[Operation Anaconda]] begins.
* [[March 1]] - Continuing violence in [[Ahmedabad]] 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 [[Maximum Take-Off Weight|payload]] to date at 8500kg.
* [[March 1]] - ''[[STS-109]]'': [[Space Shuttle Columbia|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 day and event also marked 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 [[March 2002 Islamabad church bombing|International Protestant Church attack]] occurs.
* [[March 19]] - [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|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]] and three 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 [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
* [[March 27]] - A [[suicide bomber]] [[Netanya suicide attack|kills 28]] in [[Netanya]], [[Israel]].
* [[March 30]] - [[Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother]] dies in her sleep at the Royal lodge, aged 101
* [[March 31]] - [[Ukraine]] holds parliamentary elections.
===April===
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* [[April 1]] - [[University of Maryland, College Park|Maryland]] defeats [[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Indiana]] 64-52 to win the [[2002 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|NCAA Men's Basketball Championship]] at the [[Georgia Dome]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].
* [[April 2]] - [[Israel]]i forces besiege the [[Church of the Nativity]] in [[Bethlehem]], when militants take shelter there.
* [[April 9]] - The funeral of [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother]] takes place in [[Westminster Abbey]], [[London]].
* [[April 11]] - [[April 14]] - A [[2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt|military coup d'état]] against the leftist [[Venezuela]]n [[President of Venezuela|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 [[Canada|Canadian]] infantrymen are killed in [[Afghanistan]] by [[friendly fire]] from 2 [[United States|US]] [[F-16]]s.
* [[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 Africa]]n [[Mark Shuttleworth]] blasts off from the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]]; he had paid £15 million for the trip.
* [[April 26]] - [[Robert Steinhäuser]] opens fire on his former teachers and other students in [[Erfurt]], [[Germany]] and then kills himself; 16 are killed.
* [[April 27]] - The [[Laughlin, Nevada]] [[River Run Riot]] kills three.
* [[April 30]] - [[Pakistan]]i voters approve a [[referendum]] granting a 5-year term for [[President of Pakistan|Pakistani president]] [[Pervez Musharraf]].
===May===
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[[Image:Flag of East Timor.svg|thumb|180px| [[May 20]]: [[Flag of East Timor]]]]
* [[May 5]] - In the second round of the French presidential election, [[Jacques Chirac]] is reelected.
* [[May 6]] - In the [[Netherlands]], politician [[Pim Fortuyn]] is killed by [[Volkert van der Graaf]].
* [[May 6]] - A press release announced the official name change from ''World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc.'' to'' World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.'', or WWE, and the change was publicized later that day during a telecast of Monday Night Raw, which emanated from the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut.
* [[May 7]] - [[China Northern Airlines Flight 6136]] crashes into the bay near [[Dalian]], killing all 103 passengers and 9 crew members.
* [[May 7]] - Gay [[Canada|Canadian]] teenager [[Marc Hall]] is granted a court injunction ordering that he be allowed to attend his [[high school]] prom with his boyfriend.
* [[May 9]] - A 38-day stand-off in the [[Church of the Nativity]] in [[Bethlehem]] ends when the [[Palestinians]] inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries.
* [[May 9]] - In Kaspiysk, [[Russia]], a remote-control [[bomb]] explodes during a holiday parade, killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
* [[May 10]] - [[FBI]] 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.
* [[May 12]] - The Russian [[Shuttle Buran|Shuttle ''Buran'']] is destroyed when the roof of the [[hangar]] collapses, killing 8 workers.
* [[May 15]] - [[The Netherlands]] holds elections for the Lower House.
* [[May 20]] - [[East Timor]] regains its independence.
* [[May 21]] - The [[US State Department]] releases a report naming 7 state sponsors of terrorism: [[Iran]], [[Iraq]], [[Cuba]], [[Libya]], [[North Korea]], [[Sudan]], and [[Syria]].
* [[May 22]] - [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing]]: A jury in [[Birmingham, Alabama]] convicts former [[Ku Klux Klan]] member [[Bobby Frank Cherry]] of the [[1963]] murders of 4 girls.
* [[May 23]] - [[Estonia]] hosts the first [[Eurovision Song Contest]] in a former [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] republic.
* [[May 25]] - [[China Airlines Flight 611]] disintegrates near the [[Penghu Islands]] at [[Taiwan Strait]], killing all 225 people on board.
* [[May 26]] - The [[Mars Odyssey]] finds signs of large water ice deposits on the planet [[Mars (planet)|Mars]].
* [[May 26]] - A barge collides with the [[Interstate 40]] bridge across the [[Arkansas River]] in eastern Oklahoma, killing 14.
* [[May 30]] - The final piece of debris from [[The World Trade Center]] is removed from Ground Zero.
* [[May 31]] - The [[2002 FIFA World Cup]] begins, co-hosted by [[South Korea]] and [[Japan]].
===June===
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[[Image:Concorde Jubilee.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Concorde]] leads the [[Red Arrows]] over [[London]] in a fly past for [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] on her Golden Jubilee]]
* [[June 3]] - The "Party in the Palace" takes place at [[Buckingham Palace]], [[London]] for [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] celebrations.
* [[June 4]] - The [[planetoid]] [[50000 Quaoar|Quaoar]] is discovered orbiting the [[Sun]] in the [[Kuiper belt]].
* [[June 6]] - [[Eastern Mediterranean Event]]: An object with an estimated diameter of 10 metres collides with [[Earth]]. The collision occurs over the [[Mediterranean Sea]], and the object detonates in mid-air.
* [[June 8]] - [[Serena Williams]] defeats her sister [[Venus Williams]] in straight sets to win the 2002 [[French Open]].
* [[June 10]] - An annular [[solar eclipse]] occurs.
* [[June 10]] - First direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans carried out by [[Kevin Warwick]] in the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[June 11]] - [[Antonio Meucci]] is recognized as the first inventor of the telephone by the [[United States Congress]].
* [[June 14]] - In [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]], a [[car bomb]] in front of the U.S. Consulate kills 12 Pakistanis and injures 50.
* [[June 15]] - Near Earth Asteroid [[2002 MN]] misses the planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon.
* [[June 18]] - [[Arizona]] experiences its worst forest fire, burning 462,606 acres (1,872 km²) near the [[Mogollon Rim]].
* [[June 24]] - The [[Igandu train disaster]] in [[Dodoma Region]], [[Tanzania]], kills 281 people in the worst rail accident in [[Africa]]n history.
* [[June 29]] - U.S. Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] serves as [[Acting President of the United States|Acting President]] while President [[George W. Bush]] undergoes a colonoscopy.
* [[June 30]] - [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] defeats [[Germany national football team|Germany]] in the [[2002 FIFA World Cup]].
===July===
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* [[July 1]] - The [[International Criminal Court]] is established to prosecute individuals for [[genocide]], [[crimes against humanity]], [[war crimes]], and the [[crime of aggression]]. Crimes committed on or after this date may be prosecuted by the court.
* [[July 1]] - A Russian passenger jet and a cargo plane collide over the town of [[Überlingen]] in Southern [[Germany]]; 72 are dead (see [[Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937]]).
* [[July 9]] - The [[Organization of African Unity]] is disbanded and replaced by the [[African Union]].
* [[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 [[Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet]].
* [[July 13]] - A lighting strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire in [[Oregon]] and northern [[California]], which burns 499,570 acres (2,022 km²).
* [[July 14]] - During [[Bastille Day]] celebrations, [[Jacques Chirac]] escapes an assassination attempt.
* [[July 15]] - In [[Washington, DC]], "American [[Taliban]]" [[John Walker Lindh]] pleads guilty to aiding the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a [[felony]]. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each charge.
* [[July 19]] - Hail kills 25 and injures hundreds in the [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] province of [[Henan Province|Henan]].
* [[July 21]] - [[Telecommunication]]s giant [[WorldCom]] files for [[Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection]] (the largest such filing in [[United States]] history).
* [[July 27]] - [[Helen Clark]], leader of the [[New Zealand Labour Party]], is [[New Zealand general election 2002|re-elected]] in a landslide victory.
* [[July 27]] - A [[Sukhoi Su-27]] fighter crashes at an [[air show]] in [[Ukraine]], killing 78 and injuring more than 100 (the largest air show disaster in history).
===August===
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* The [[2002 European floods]] ravage [[Central Europe]].
* [[August 6]] - [[Cambridgeshire Police]] make an appeal for the safe return of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, who vanished in [[Soham]] 2 days prior.
* [[August 7]] - [[Tama-chan]], a [[bearded seal]] native to the Arctic, is discovered in [[Tama River]] in [[Tokyo]].
* [[August 10]] - [[Turkmenistan]] adopts a law to rename all the months and most of the days of the week according to [[Ruhnama]], a book written by Turkmen president [[Saparmurat Niyazov]].
* [[August 12]] - In [[Arlington, Virginia]], [[US Airways]] declares bankruptcy.
* [[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===
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[[Image:Gerhardschroeder01c.jpg|thumb|Gerhard Schröder]]
*[[September 2]] - The [[United Nations]] [[World Summit on Sustainable Development]], successor of the [[1972]] [[Conference on the Human Environment]], [[1983]] [[World Commission on Environment and Development]], and the [[1992]] Conference on Environment and Development, opens.
* [[September 5]] - A [[car bomb]] kills at least 30 people in [[Afghanistan]], and an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President [[Hamid Karzai]] fails the same day.
* [[September 5]] - The Sour Biscuit Fire in [[Oregon]] and northern [[California]], which burned 499,570 acres (2,022 km²), is contained.
* [[September 8]] - Typhoon Sinlaku causes huge waves on the Qiantangjiang River in Sheijang Province, [[China]].
* [[September 10]] - [[Switzerland]] joins the [[United Nations]].
* [[September 11]] - The [[World Summit on Sustainable Development]] comes to a close.
* [[September 12]] - 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.
* [[September 15]] - The [[Swedish parliamentary election, 2002]] leaves [[Prime Minister]] [[Göran Persson]] and the [[Socialdemokratiska arbetarpartiet|Social Democrats]] in power.
* [[September 18]] - The body of missing school girl [[Amanda Dowler]] is found in [[Hampshire]].
* [[September 19]] - Civil war starts in [[Côte d'Ivoire]].
* [[September 20]] - The [[Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide]] occurs.
* [[September 22]] - The [[German federal election, 2002|German federal election]] leaves Chancellor [[Gerhard Schröder]], his [[SPD|Social Democrats]] and [[Alliance '90/The Greens|the Greens]] in power.
* [[September 25]] - The [[Vitim event]], a possible [[bolide]] impact, occurs in [[Siberia]], [[Russia]].
* [[September 26]] - 1863 are killed when the [[Senegalese]] passenger ferry ''[[Joola]]'' capsizes in a storm off the coast of [[Gambia]].
===October===
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* [[October 2]] - The [[Congress of the United States]] passes a joint resolution, which authorizes the President to use the [[United States Armed Forces]] as he deems necessary and appropriate, against [[Iraq]].
* [[October 2]] - The [[Beltway sniper attacks]] begin with 5 shootings in [[Montgomery County, Maryland|Montgomery County]], [[Maryland]].
* [[October 7]] - The discovery of [[50000 Quaoar|Quaoar]] is announced.
* [[October 11]] - [[Myyrmanni bombing]]: A lone bomber explodes a home-made bomb in the Myyrmanni shopping mall north of [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]]; the casualties include himself.
* [[October 12]] - Terrorists [[2002 Bali terrorist bombing|detonate bombs]] in 2 nightclubs in Kuta, [[Bali]], killing 202 and injuring over 300.
* [[October 22]] - [[25]] - [[Chechen]] Rebels take control over a theatre in [[Moscow]] and hold the audience hostage.
* [[October 24]] - The [[Beltway sniper attacks|Beltway snipers]], [[John Allen Muhammad]] and [[Lee Boyd Malvo]], are arrested.
* [[October 25]] - U.S. Senator [[Paul Wellstone]], his family, and his staff are killed in a plane accident at [[Eveleth, Minnesota]].
* [[October 27]] - The [[Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim|Anaheim Angels]] defeat the [[San Francisco Giants]] in Game 7 of the [[2002 World Series]] to win the title.
* [[October 27]] - * [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] is elected President of Brazil.
===November===
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[[Image:US-DeptOfHomelandSecurity-Seal.png|thumb|175px|The [[Department of Homeland Security]] is formed in response to terrorist concerns in the United States.]]
* [[November 2]] - The [[Godless Americans March on Washington]] brings together 2,000 [[atheists]], [[freethinkers]], and [[humanists]] in a mile-long parade down the [[National Mall]].
* [[November 5]] - The U.S. [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] [[United States midterm elections, 2002|maintains control]] of the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] and gains control of the [[United States Senate]].
* [[November 6]] - The U.S. [[Federal Reserve System]] drops its primary discount rate by 50 [[basis point]]s to 0.75%, putting the real [[interest rate]] solidly below the [[inflation rate]].
* [[November 7]] - [[Iran]] bans the [[advertising]] of [[United States]] products.
* [[November 8]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: – The [[United Nations Security Council]] unanimously approves [[UN Security Council Resolution 1441]], forcing [[Saddam Hussein]] to [[disarmament|disarm]] or face "serious consequences".
* [[November 13]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[Iraq]] agrees to the terms of [[UN Security Council Resolution 1441]].
* [[November 13]] - The oil tanker [[Prestige (ship)|''Prestige'']] sinks off the [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]]n coast, causing a huge [[oil spill]].
* [[November 14]] - [[Argentina]] defaults on a US $805 million [[World Bank]] loan payment.
* [[November 15]] - [[Hu Jintao]] becomes General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of China]].
* [[November 16]] - A [[Campaign against Climate Change]] march takes place in [[London]] from [[Lincoln's Inn Fields]], past [[Exxon Mobil|Esso]] offices to the [[United States]] Embassy.
* [[November 18]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[United Nations]] weapons inspectors led by [[Hans Blix]] arrive in [[Iraq]].
* [[November 21]] - At the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]] Summit in [[Prague]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Romania]], [[Slovakia]], and [[Slovenia]] are invited to join the organization.
* [[November 22]] - In [[Nigeria]], more than 100 are killed at an attack aimed at the [[Miss World]] contestants.
* [[November 25]] - U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] signs the [[Homeland Security Act]] into law, establishing the [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]], in the largest U.S. government reorganization since the creation of the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] in [[1947]].
* [[November 26]] - Legislation by the [[European Court of Human Rights]] and [[Law Lords]], ruling in favour of convicted murderer [[Anthony Anderson (murderer)|Anthony Anderson]], ends the right of the [[Home Secretary]] to set minimum terms for convicted murderers.
===December===
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* [[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.
* [[December 9]] - [[United Airlines]], the second largest airline in the world, files for bankruptcy.
* [[December 10]] - The [[High Court of Australia]] hands down its judgement in the [[Internet]] [[defamation]] dispute in the case of [[Gutnick v Dow Jones]].
* [[December 12]] - [[Hans Enoksen]] is elected prime minister of [[Greenland]]
* [[December 27]] - A suicide truck-bomb attack destroys the headquarters of [[Chechnya]]'s [[Moscow]]-backed government, killing 72.
* [[December 29]] - The Communist [[New People's Army]] blows up a bust of [[Ferdinand Marcos]] in [[Benguet]], [[Philippines]].
* [[December 30]] - An eruption on the [[volcanic island]] [[Stromboli]] off the coast of [[Sicily]] causes a flank failure and [[tsunami]]. The island is later evacuated.
===Undated===
===Ongoing===
* Rebuilding of the [[NYC]] [[World Trade Center]] continues.
===Fictional===
The following are references to year 2002 in fiction:
* Literature:
:*the events of ''[[First Among Sequels]]'' by [[Jasper Fforde]] take place in an alternate-reality 2002
:*''[[The Notion Club Papers]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (1945): About one-quarter of the papers are found among sacks of waste paper at Oxford by a Mr. Green.
* Television:
:* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' ("[[The Changeling (TOS episode)|The Changeling]]," 1967): The first interstellar probe, ''[[Nomad (Star Trek)|Nomad]]'', is launched.
:* ''[[The West Wing]]'': On [[November 5]], [[Democratic]] [[President of the United States|President]] [[Josiah Bartlet]] of [[New Hampshire]] defeats [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[Robert Ritchie (TV character)|Robert Ritchie]] of [[Florida]] in his reelection bid following the [[The West Wing presidential election, 2002|2002 US presidential election]].
* Film:
:* The events of ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]'' and ''[[Resident Evil: Apocalypse]]'' take place between [[September 28]] and [[September 30]], with the [[T-Virus]] outbreak occurring in The Hive, and then infiltrating [[Raccoon City]] just thirteen hours later.
* Games:
:* The events of [[Resident Evil: Dead Aim]] take place on [[September 23]].
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==Births==
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* [[April 21]] - [[Carl and Clarence Aguirre]], combined twins from Philadelphia, PA
* [[April 30]] - [[Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón]], grandson of [[Juan Carlos I]] of [[Spain]].
* [[May 14]] - [[Margarita Armstrong-Jones]], daughter of [[Viscount Linley]] and his wife, [[Serena Armstrong-Jones, Viscountess Linley|Viscountess Linley]]
* [[June 8]] - [[Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg]]
* [[July 22]] - [[Prince Felix of Denmark]], Prince of Denmark
* [[July 30]] - [[Prince Hridayendra of Nepal|Young Crown Prince Hridayendra of Nepal]], second in line to the Nepalese throne
* [[August 2]] - [[Kara and Shelby Hoffman]], American actresses
==Deaths==
: ''For more, see: [[Deaths in 2002]].''
===January===
* [[January 3]] - [[Freddy Heineken]], Dutch-born beer magnate (b. [[1923]])
* [[January 8]] - [[Alexander Prochorow]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1916]])
* [[January 8]] - [[Dave Thomas (American businessman)|Dave Thomas]], American fast food entrepreneur (b. [[1932]])
* [[January 12]] - [[Stanley Unwin (comedian)|Stanley Unwin]], South African comedian (b. [[1911]])
* [[January 12]] - [[Cyrus Vance]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. [[1917]])
* [[January 13]] - [[Frank Shuster]] of the Canadian comic duo [[Wayne and Shuster]] (b. [[1916]])
* [[January 13]] - [[Ted Demme]], American film and television director (b. [[1963]])
* [[January 16]] - [[Michael Anthony Bilandic|Michael Bilandic]], Mayor of Chicago (b. [[1923]])
* [[January 16]] - [[Bobo Olson]], American boxer (b. [[1928]])
* [[January 16]] - [[Ron Taylor]], American actor (b. [[1952]])
* [[January 17]] - [[Camilo José Cela]], Spanish writer (b. [[1916]])
* [[January 20]] - [[Carrie Hamilton]], American actress (b. [[1963]])
* [[January 22]] - [[Peggy Lee]], American singer and actress (b. [[1920]])
* [[January 23]] - [[Pierre Bourdieu]], French sociologist (b. [[1930]])
* [[January 23]] - [[Robert Nozick]], American philosopher (b. [[1938]])
* [[January 28]] - [[Dick "Night Train" Lane]], American football player (b. [[1928]])
* [[January 28]] - [[Astrid Lindgren]], Swedish children's book author (b. [[1907]])
* [[January 29]] - [[Harold Russell]], Canadian-born actor (b. [[1914]])
===February===
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* [[February 1]] - [[Irish McCalla]], American actress (b. [[1928]])
* [[February 2]] - [[Danielle Van Dam]], American murder victim (b. [[1994]])
* [[February 6]] - [[Max Perutz]], Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (b. [[1914]])
* [[February 8]] - [[Joachim Hoffmann]], German historian (b. [[1930]])
* [[February 9]] - [[Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1930]])
* [[February 10]] - [[Traudl Junge]], German private secretary of Adolf Hitler (b. [[1920]])
* [[February 13]] - [[Waylon Jennings]], country music singer (b. [[1937]])
* [[February 14]] - [[Nándor Hidegkuti]], Hungarian footballer (b. [[1922]])
* [[February 15]] - [[Howard K. Smith]], American television journalist (b. [[1914]])
* [[February 15]] - [[Kevin Smith (New Zealand actor)|Kevin Smith]], New Zealand actor (b. [[1963]])
* [[February 16]] - [[Walter Winterbottom]], English football manager (b. [[1913]])
* [[February 19]] - [[Virginia Hamilton]], American writer (b. [[1936]])
* [[February 20]] - [[Willie Thrower]], American football player (b. [[1930]])
* [[February 21]] - [[John Thaw]], British actor (b. [[1942]])
* [[February 22]] - [[Barbara Valentin]], Austrian actress (b. [[1940]])
*[[February 22]] - [[Chuck Jones]], American animator (b. [[1912]])
* [[February 22]] - [[Jonas Savimbi]], Angolan rebel leader (b. [[1934]])
* [[February 24]] - [[Leo Ornstein]], American composer and pianist (b. [[1892]])
* [[February 26]] - [[Lawrence Tierney]], American actor (b. [[1919]])
* [[February 27]] - [[Spike Milligan]], British comedian, writer, and poet (b. [[1918]])
* [[February 27]] - [[Mary Stuart (actress)|Mary Stuart]], American actress (b. [[1926]])
* [[February 28]] - [[Helmut Zacharias]], German violinist (b. [[1920]])
===March===
* [[March 4]] - [[Elyne Mitchell]], Australian children's author (b. [[1913]])
* [[March 4]] - [[Claire Davenport]], British actress (b. [[1933]])
* [[March 4]] - [[Eric Flynn]], British actor and singer (b. [[1939]])
* [[March 11]] - [[James Tobin]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1918]])
* [[March 14]] - [[Cherry Wilder]], New Zealand author (b. [[1930]])
* [[March 20]] - [[Ibn Al-Khattab]], Saudi guerilla (b. [[1969]])
* [[March 21]] - [[Amanda Dowler]], British murder victim (b. [[1988]])
* [[March 23]] - [[Ben Hollioake]], English cricketer (b. [[1977]])
* [[March 24]] - [[César Milstein]], Argentine scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1927]])
* [[March 25]] - [[Kenneth Wolstenholme]], British football commentator (b. [[1920]])
* [[March 27]] - [[Milton Berle]], American comedian and actor (b. [[1908]])
* [[March 27]] - [[Dudley Moore]], British pianist, comedian, and actor (b. [[1935]])
* [[March 27]] - [[Billy Wilder]], Polish-American film screenwriter and director (b. [[1906]])
* [[March 29]] - [[Rico Yan]], Filipino actor (b. [[1975]])
* [[March 30]] - [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]], queen consort of [[George VI of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[March 30]] - [[Søren Nystrøm Rasted]], Danish musician (b. [[1969]])
===April===
* [[April 5]] - [[Layne Staley]], American singer (b. [[1967]])
* [[April 8]] - [[Maria Felix]], Mexican actress (b. [[1914]])
* [[April 9]] - [[Leopold Vietoris]], Austrian mathematician (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 13]] - [[Desmond Titterington]], Northern Irish racecar driver (b. [[1928]])
* [[April 15]] - [[Byron White]], American athlete and Supreme Court Justice (b. [[1917]])
* [[April 16]] - [[Franz Krienbühl]], Swiss speed skater (b. [[1929]])
* [[April 16]] - [[Robert Urich]], American actor (b. [[1946]])
* [[April 18]] - [[Thor Heyerdahl]], Norwegian explorer (b. [[1914]])
* [[April 18]] - [[Wahoo McDaniel]], American football player and wrestler (b. [[1938]])
* [[April 22]] - [[Linda Lovelace]], American pornographic actress (b. [[1949]])
* [[April 25]] - [[Indra Devi]], Livonian-Indian yoga teacher (b. [[1899]])
* [[April 25]] - [[Lisa Lopes]], American singer (b. [[1971]])
* [[April 27]] - [[George Alec Effinger]], American author (b. [[1947]])
* [[April 27]] - [[Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza]], Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. [[1921]])
* [[April 28]] - [[Ruth Handler]], American toy manufacturer (b. [[1916]])
===May===
* [[May 5]] - [[Hugo Bánzer Suarez]], [[President of Bolivia]] (b. [[1926]])
* [[May 6]] - [[Pim Fortuyn]], Dutch politician (b. [[1948]])
* [[May 7]] - [[Seattle Slew]], American racehorse (b. [[1974]])
* [[May 11]] - [[Joseph Bonanno]], Italian-born gangster (b. [[1905]])
* [[May 13]] - [[Ruth Cracknell]], Australian theatre and television actor (b. [[1925]])
* [[May 13]] - [[Valeri Lobanovsky]], Ukrainian football manager (b. [[1939]])
* [[May 18]] - [[Davey Boy Smith]], British professional wrestler (b. [[1962]])
* [[May 19]] - [[John Gorton]], nineteenth [[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 23]] - [[Sam Snead]], American golfer (b. [[1912]])
* [[May 24]] - [[Wallace Markfield]], American writer (b. [[1926]])
* [[May 26]] - [[Mamo Wolde]], Ethiopian runner (b. [[1932]])
* [[May 28]] - [[Jean Berger]], German-born composer (b. [[1909]])
===June===
[[Image:Lilian Baels.jpg|thumb|right|170px|[[Lilian Baels]], Belgian princess]]
* [[June 1]] - [[Hansie Cronje]], South African cricketer (b. [[1969]])
* [[June 4]] - [[Fernando Belaúnde Terry]], [[President of Peru]] (b. [[1912]])
* [[June 5]] - [[Dee Dee Ramone]], American bassist (b. [[1952]])
* [[June 6]] - [[Hans Janmaat]], Dutch politician (b. [[1934]])
* [[June 7]] - [[Mary Lilian Baels]], Belgian princess (b. [[1916]])
* [[June 10]] - [[John Gotti]], American gangster (b. [[1940]])
* [[June 11]] - [[Robbin Crosby]], American guitarist (b. [[1959]])
* [[June 12]] - [[Bill Blass]], American fashion designer (b. [[1922]])
* [[June 17]] - [[Willie Davenport]], American athlete (b. [[1943]])
* [[June 17]] - [[Fritz Walter (footballer, 1920)|Fritz Walter]], German footballer (b. [[1920]])
* [[June 18]] - [[Jack Buck]], American baseball announcer (b. [[1924]])
* [[June 22]] - [[Darryl Kile]], American baseball player (b. [[1968]])
* [[June 23]] - [[Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar]], Panamian boxer (b. [[1975]])
* [[June 24]] - [[Pierre Werner]], [[Prime Minister of Luxembourg]] (b. [[1913]])
* [[June 26]] - [[Arnold Brown (General of The Salvation Army)|Arnold Brown]], English General of [[The Salvation Army]] (b. [[1913]])
* [[June 26]] - [[Jay Berwanger]], American football player (b. [[1914]])
* [[June 27]] - [[John Entwistle]], English bassist ((b. [[1944]])
* [[June 29]] - [[Rosemary Clooney]], American singer and actress (b. [[1928]])
===July===
* [[July 5]] - [[Benjamin O. Davis Jr.]], American general (b. [[1912]])
* [[July 5]] - [[Katy Jurado]], Mexican actress (b. [[1924]])
* [[July 5]] - [[Ted Williams]], American baseball player (b. [[1918]])
* [[July 6]] - [[Dhirubhai Ambani]], Indian businessman (b. [[1932]])
* [[July 6]] - [[John Frankenheimer]], American film director (b. [[1930]])
* [[July 8]] - [[Ward Kimball]], American animator (b. [[1913]])
* [[July 9]] - [[Laurence Janifer]], American writer (b. [[1933]])
* [[July 9]] - [[Rod Steiger]], American actor (b. [[1925]])
* [[July 13]] - [[Yousuf Karsh]], Turkish-born photographer (b. [[1908]])
* [[July 14]] - [[Joaquín Balaguer]], [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (b. [[1906]])
* [[July 15]] - [[Samantha Runnion]], American murder victim (b. [[1996]])
* [[July 16]] - [[John Cocke]], American computer scientist (b. [[1925]])
* [[July 19]] - [[Alan Lomax]], American folklorist and musicologist (b. [[1970]])
* [[July 23]] - [[Leo McKern]], Australian actor (b. [[1920]])
* [[July 23]] - [[William Luther Pierce]], American physicist and Neo-Nazi leader (b. [[1933]])
* [[July 23]] - [[Chaim Potok]], American author and rabbi (b. [[1929]])
* [[July 25]] - [[Abdur Rahman Badawi]], Egyptian philosopher (b. [[1917]])
* [[July 28]] - [[Archer John Porter Martin]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1910]])
===August===
* [[August 4]] - [[Carmen Silvera]], British actress (b. [[1922]])
* [[August 5]] - [[Josh Ryan Evans]], American actor (b. [[1982]])
* [[August 5]] - [[Darrell Porter]], American baseball player (b. [[1952]])
* [[August 5]] - [[Chick Hearn]], American basketball announcer (b. [[1916]])
* [[August 5]] - [[Franco Lucentini]], Italian writer (b. [[1920]])
* [[August 6]] - [[Edsger Dijkstra]], Dutch computer scientist (b. [[1930]])
* [[August 11]] - [[Galen Rowell]], American photographer, writer, and climber (b. [[1940]])
* [[August 12]] - [[Enos Slaughter]], American baseball player (b. [[1916]])
* [[August 14]] - [[Dave Williams (musician)|Dave Williams]], American singer (b. [[1972]])
* [[August 15]] - [[Kyle Rote]], American football player and coach (b. [[1928]])
* [[August 16]] - [[Abu Nidal]], Palestinian militant (b. [[1937]])
* [[August 18]] - [[Dean Riesner]], American screenwriter (b. [[1918]])
* [[August 23]] - [[Hoyt Wilhelm]], American baseball player (b. [[1922]])
* [[August 25]] - [[Dorothy Hewett]], Australian writer (b. [[1923]])
* [[August 29]] - [[Alan MacNaughtan]], Scottish actor (b. [[1920]])
* [[August 31]] - [[Lionel Hampton]], American musician (b. [[1908]])
* [[August 31]] - [[George Porter]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1920]])
* [[August 31]] - [[Farhad Mehrad]], Iranian composer and musician (b. [[1943]])
===September===
* [[September 11]] - [[Johnny Unitas]], American football player (b. [[1933]])
* [[September 18]] - [[Bob Hayes]], American athlete (b. [[1942]])
* [[September 19]] - [[Sergei Bodrov Jr.]], Russian actor (b. [[1971]])
* [[September 19]] - [[Robert Guéï]], Ivorian military ruler (b. [[1941]])
* [[September 21]] - [[Robert Lull Forward]], American author and physicist (b. [[1932]])
*[[September 23]] - [[Vernon Corea]], British broadcaster (b. [[1927]])
===October===
* [[October 6]] - [[Claus von Amsberg]], husband of [[Beatrix of the Netherlands|Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1926]])
* [[October 9]] - [[Aileen Wournos]], American serial killer (b. [[1956]])
* [[October 10]] - [[Teresa Graves]], American actress (b. [[1948]])
* [[October 12]] - [[Ray Conniff]], American musician and bandleader (b. [[1916]])
* [[October 13]] - [[Stephen Ambrose]], American historian and biographer (b. [[1936]])
* [[October 17]] - [[Derek Bell (musician)|Derek Bell]], Northern Ireland musician (b. [[1935]])
* [[October 18]] - [[Nikolai Rukavishnikov]], Russian cosmonaut (b. [[1932]])
* [[October 18]] - [[Roman Tam]], Hong Kong pop singer (b. [[1950]])
* [[October 24]] - [[Harry Hay]], American activist (b. [[1912]])
* [[October 25]] - [[Richard Harris (actor)|Richard Harris]], Irish actor (b. [[1930]])
* [[October 25]] - [[Paul Wellstone]], American politician (b. [[1944]])
* [[October 30]] - [[Jason Mizell|Jam Master Jay]], American rapper (b. [[1965]])
===November===
* [[November 2]] - [[Charles Sheffield]], English author and physicist (b. [[1935]])
* [[November 3]] - [[Lonnie Donegan]], Scottish musician (b. [[1931]])
* [[November 7]] - [[Peg Phillips]], American actress (b. [[1918]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Károly Doncsecz]], Slovenian potter (b. [[1918]])
* [[November 15]] - [[Myra Hindley]], English murderer (b. [[1942]])
* [[November 17]] - [[Abba Eban]], Israeli foreign affair minister (b. [[1915]])
* [[November 20]] - [[George Guest]], Welsh choral conductor (b. [[1924]])
* [[November 21]] - [[Hadda Brooks]], American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. [[1916]])
* [[November 24]] - [[John Rawls]], American political theorist (b. [[1921]])
* [[November 26]] - [[Verne Winchell]], American entrepreneur (b. [[1915]])
* [[November 28]] - [[Norm McDonald (footballer)|Norm McDonald]], Australian rules footballer (b. [[1925]])
* [[November 29]] - [[George "Two Ton" Harris]] American professional wrestler (b. [[1927]])
===December===
* [[December 3]] - [[Glenn Quinn]], Irish actor (b. [[1970]])
* [[December 5]] - [[Ne Win]], Burmese military commander (b. [[1911]])
* [[December 6]] - [[Philip Berrigan]], American priest and political activist (b. [[1923]])
* [[December 6]] - [[Charles Rosen]], American pianist and pioneer in artificial intelligence (b. [[1927]])
* [[December 9]] - [[Ian Hornak]], American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (b. [[1944]])
* [[December 9]] - [[Stan Rice]], American painter and poet (b. [[1942]])
*[[December 12]] - [[Nikolai Amosov]], Ukrainian heart surgeon, inventor, and author (b. [[1913]])
* [[December 18]] - [[Ray Hnatyshyn]], [[Governor General of Canada]] (b. [[1934]])
* [[December 19]] - [[Arthur Rowley]], English footballer (b. [[1926]])
* [[December 22]] - [[Desmond Hoyte]], [[Prime Minister of Guyana|Prime Minister]] and [[President of Guyana]] (b. [[1929]])
* [[December 22]] - [[Joe Strummer]], British musician (b. [[1952]])
===Unknown===
* [[Laci Peterson]] - American murder victim (b. [[1975]])
==Nobel prizes==
*[[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Jimmy Carter]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Imre Kertész]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[John B. Fenn]] and [[Koichi Tanaka]], [[Kurt Wüthrich]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Raymond Davis Jr.]] and [[Masatoshi Koshiba]], [[Riccardo Giacconi]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Sydney Brenner]], [[H. Robert Horvitz]], and [[John E. Sulston]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Economics|Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]] - [[Daniel Kahneman]] and [[Vernon L. Smith]]
==Fields Medalists==
*[[Laurent Lafforgue]], [[Vladimir Voevodsky]]
==See also==
* [[21st century]]
==Notes==
{{reflist}}
== External links ==
{{commonscat|2002}}
*[http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2002.html 2002 Year-End Google Zeitgeist] - Google's Yearly List of Major Events and Top Searches for 2002
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