2002 Calendar
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2002 Historical Event(s)
- January 1, 2002 – Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
- February 12, 2002 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- April 4, 2002 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
- May 2, 2002 – Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala.
- July 10, 2002 – At a Sotheby‘s auction, Peter Paul Rubens’painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
- July 22, 2002 – Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas’s military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
- July 24, 2002 – Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
- September 23, 2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.
- September 27, 2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
- October 16, 2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
Who Were Born On 2002?
- 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)