2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains Year of the Outback in Australia National Science Year in the United Kingdom Autism Awareness Year in the United Kingdom 2002 - Overview of the year. In contrast to 2000 and 2001, which retained elements of the late 1990s, 2002 shifted into a new cultural decade. Wi ...

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2002 - Nobel Prizes 2002 - Fields Medalists

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See also: Moscow theatre siege Beltway sniper attacks Bali car bombing Myyrmanni bombing Zamboanga bombings Afghanistan timeline October 2002 October 2002 - October 31 2002. The Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko has now stated that the incapacitating agent used in the storming of the Moscow theatre siege was a fentanyl derivative. Over a million people gather in Greenwich Village to celebrate Halloween. Ni ...

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2002 - January. January 1 - The Republic of China officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei. January 1 - The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters in to force. January 5 - Charles Bishop, a 15 year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack. January 9 - The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a c ...

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(55637) 2002 UX25 (Also written as (55637) 2002 UX25) is a large Trans-Neptunian object discovered on October 30, 2002 by the Spacewatch program. ...

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The 15th Asian Games were held in Busan, South Korea from September 29, 2002 to October 14, 2002. 44 countries participated in these games under the management of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). There were 38 events and 18,000 newsmen, officers and athletes. ...

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(55565) 2002 AW197 is a trans-Neptunian object. It was discovered in 2002 by Michael E. Brown et al. It is classified as a cubewano. Other related archives2002, Michael E. Brown, cubewano, subscript, superscript, technical restrictions, trans-Neptunian object

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Champion is a 2002 South Korean film about Duk Koo Kim, a South Korean boxer who was killed in a highly publicized bout against Ray Mancini in 1982. Other related archives1982, 2002, Duk Koo Kim, Ray Mancini, South Korean, boxer

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The following are the baseball events of the year 2002 throughout the world.   2000s 2009 • 2008 • 2007 • 2006 • 2005 2004 • 2003 • 2002 • 2001 • 2000 1990s 1999 • 1998 • 1997 • 1996 • 1995 1994 • 1993 • 1992
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2002 in baseball - August 2002 in baseball - September
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2002 in baseball - Awards 2002 in baseball - Books 2002 in baseball - Movies 2002 in baseball - Deaths
2002 in baseball - January-March 2002 in baseball - April-June 2002 in baseball - July-September 2002 in baseball - October-December

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This is a list of film-related events in 2002. 2001 in film 2002 in film 2003 in film 2001 in home video 2002 in home video 2003 in home video 2001 in television 2002 in television 2003 in television 2002 in film - Events. May - The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski wins the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival. Amélie from Mon ...

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The 2002 Soweto Bombings were a string of terrorist attacks which occurred in Soweto in South Africa, in late 2002. Nine blasts took place on 30 October 2002, leaving one woman dead and her husband severely injured. One of the blasts severely damaged a mosque, and there were other explosions on railways and petrol stations in the area. A tenth bomb later detonated outside a Buddhist temple east of Pretoria, however, at the time, it was not known whether this bomb was related to the attacks (the police later stated that it was). A whit ...

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2002 was marked by significant trends in Rock Music. Two music genres were focused on in this year both gained major popularity. The continued trend of pop music leaning to R&B and hiphop, and Rock gradualy changing its face from the underground. Rock which had for the past years been dominated by corporate nu-metal bands such as Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and pop-punk acts such as Blink-182, and Green Day, began sharing the scene with other genres such as emo which saw increase in interest in record sales which would pick up in the comin ...

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2002 in music - Grammy Awards 2002 in music - Country Music Association Awards 2002 in music - Eurovision Song Contest 2002 in music - Mercury Music Prize
2002 in music - Charts
2002 in music - KROQ 2002 in music - Triple J Hottest 100

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In August of 2002 a 100-year flood caused by over a week of continuous heavy rains ravaged Europe, killing dozens, dispossessing thousands, and causing damages of billions of euros in the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Croatia. 2002 European floods - Development of the floods. The floods first started with heavy rainfall in the Eastern Alps, which resulted in floods in Northern Italy, Bavaria and the Austrian states of Salzburg and Upper Austria. The floods gradual ...

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Crossroads is a 2002 movie directed by Tamra Davis. It stars pop singer Britney Spears in her first major movie role. In the film, Spears plays teenage Lucy, the lead character. A younger version of Lucy is played by Spears' sister, Jamie Lynn Spears. Crossroads 2002 film - Plot. In a little town in Georgia, three friends get together on the night of their high school graduation. One friend is "little miss perfect", one is an engaged prom queen, and the third is a pregnant outcast. One of the girls b ...

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The 2002 Bali Bombing occurred on October 12, 2002 in the town of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring a further 209. It is considered the deadliest act of terrorism in Indonesian history. The majority of the dead were foreign tourists, especially Australians, but nearly one fifth were Indonesian nationals. A number of Indonesians were sentenced to death for their parts in the bombings and in October 2002 Abu Bakar Bashir, a leader of the Jemaah Islamiah organisation often accused of being behi ...

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The 2002 World Series was among the classic matchups in the history of the Series. The Anaheim Angels (American League) and San Francisco Giants (National League) competed for the championship, representing the first time two wildcard teams would vie for the elusive title. It was a mettle-forging comeback, for the Giants were leading by a 3-2 game tally after five games, and scored five runs prior to the seventh-inning stretch of Game 6 while the Angels had not tallied a single run. Then, however, the Angels, being the home team, rall ...

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"Addictive" is a 2002 single recorded by Truth Hurts for Dr. Dre's Aftermath label. One of the label's few R&B hits, "Addictive" features a guest rap from old school hip hop legend Rakim, and is based around a Hindi music sample, which eventually brought on a $500 million lawsuit against Aftermath. Steve "Static" Garrett wrote the song's lyrics, and the record was produced by DJ Quik. Quik sampled for its instrumental track a Hindi-song he heard on television early one morning. The sample turned out to be "Thoda Resham Lagt ...

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The riots were triggered on February 27, 2002 by a fire on a passenger train, the Sabarmati Express, passing through the town of Godhra. The train was carrying Hindu activists called Kar Sevaks returning from a disputed religious site in Ayodhya. The train was allegedly set to fire by Muslim extremists. Hindu sympathisers often cite this as the primary provocation or the "first use" of violence. However, there were reports alleging that it was the Hindus riding the train who were the first to provoke standers-by Muslims in Godhra rail ...

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2002 Gujarat violence - Conviction 2002 Gujarat violence - The Best Bakery Case
2002 Gujarat violence - The cause of the train fire in Godhra 2002 Gujarat violence - External references
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The Ring is a 2002 American film, a remake of the Japanese horror mystery Ring (1998). It is directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ehren Kruger, and stars Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson. The story begins with two teenage girls discussing the events of the previous weekend, during which one of them, Katie (played by Amber Tamblyn), went to a cabin in the mountains to party with some friends. While gossiping, the subject of a supposedly cursed videotape comes up. The other girl, Becca, states that anyone who watc ...

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The World Summit on Sustainable Development, or Earth Summit took place in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 26 to September 4, 2002, to discuss sustainable development issues. It was organised by the United Nations and gathered a number of leaders of nations, businesses and Non-governmental organizations, 10 years after the World Summit in Rio de Janeiro. (It was therefore also informally nicknamed "Rio+10".) George W. Bush decided not to attend or send a representative, earning him praise in a letter from conservative, corporate-sponsored organizations such as Americans for Tax Reform, American Ent ...

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