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2002 Calendar

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•  January 1, 2002 – Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union’s member states.
•  February 12, 2002 – An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
•  March 1, 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
•  May 23, 2002 – The “55 parties” clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
•  June 22, 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slowness of the victims receiving aid and supplies.
•  June 24, 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
•  June 29, 2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
•  September 27, 2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
•  October 29, 2002 – Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.

•  February 5, 2002 – Davis Cleveland, American actor
•  April 11, 2002 – Alexa Gerasimovich, American actress
•  April 30, 2002 – Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish prince
•  June 25, 2002 – Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
•  July 22, 2002 – Prince Felix of Denmark, Danish royalty
•  July 30, 2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal
•  September 19, 2002 – Jason and Kristopher Simmons, American identical twin actors
•  November 14, 2002 – Ben Bowen, American brain cancer victim (d. 2005)
•  December 28, 2002 – Kelsey Smith-Briggs, American murder victim (d. 2005)