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2002 Calendar

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•  January 22, 2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
•  February 12, 2002 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
•  March 29, 2002 – In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
•  April 4, 2002 – In what is known as the Society Murders, Matthew Wales kills his parents in Melbourne, Australia.
•  April 14, 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country’s military.
•  May 2, 2002 – Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala.
•  May 25, 2002 – China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
•  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.
•  July 15, 2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
•  July 28, 2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.

•  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)