2002 Calendar
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2002 Historical Event(s)
January 2, 2002
– Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
February 12, 2002
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
March 2, 2002
– U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
May 2, 2002
– Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala.
May 10, 2002
– F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
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.
October 6, 2002
– The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
October 23, 2002
– Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
November 13, 2002
– The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
November 28, 2002
– Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.
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)