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2002 Calendar

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•  February 12, 2002 – The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
•  February 22, 2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
•  May 12, 2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
•  May 22, 2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
•  May 28, 2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
•  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.
•  October 31, 2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
•  November 4, 2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
•  December 17, 2002 – Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.

•  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)