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List of events
Events from the year 2002 in the United States .
Incumbents Federal government Events January
January 8 : President George W. Bush signs the No Child Left Behind Act into law
January 11:
Camp X-Ray (Guantanamo)
January 5 –
Charles Bishop , a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a building in
Tampa, Florida , evoking fear of a
copycat
9/11 terrorist attack .
January 6 – The
Boston Globe publishes a story detailing the
Catholic Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal .
January 8 – The
No Child Left Behind Act is signed into law by U.S. President
George W. Bush .
January 9 – The
United States Department of Justice announces it will pursue a criminal investigation of
Enron .
January 11 – The first detainees arrive at
Camp X-Ray (Guantanamo) .
January 13 – President Bush chokes on a
pretzel and faints briefly.
[2]
January 14 – The asylum case of
Adelaide Abankwah is heard in
New York .
January 16
January 18 – A
Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous
ammonia derails outside of
Minot, North Dakota , killing one.
January 21 –
Cyberchase premieres on
PBS Kids .
January 23 –
The Wall Street Journal reporter
Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in
Pakistan , accused of being a
CIA agent by his captors.
January 29 – In his
State of the Union Address , President Bush describes
North Korea ,
Iran and
Iraq as an "
axis of evil ".
[3]
January 31 – U.S. special forces are deployed in the
Philippines in
Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines , part of the
War on Terror .
[3] February
February 8 – February 24: The
Winter Olympics are held in
Salt Lake City
March
March 1
March 12 – In
Houston ,
Texas ,
Andrea Yates is found guilty of
drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison.
March 14 – 125 vehicles are involved in a massive pile up on
Interstate 75 in
Ringgold, Georgia .
March 15 –
Ice Age
March 19 –
US war in Afghanistan :
Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 1) after killing 500
Taliban and
al Qaeda fighters, with 11 allied troop fatalities.
March 21 – In
Pakistan ,
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three others are charged with the kidnapping and killing of
The Wall Street Journal reporter
Daniel Pearl .
March 24 – The
74th Academy Awards , hosted by
Whoopi Goldberg , are held at
Kodak Theatre in
Hollywood , with
Ron Howard 's
A Beautiful Mind winning four awards, including
Best Picture and
Best Director . The film ties with
Peter Jackson 's
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in award wins, while the latter leads the nominations with 13. The telecast garners over 41.8 million viewers.
March –
Layalina Productions, Inc. non-profit public diplomacy initiative is inaugurated.
[4] April May
May 26:
I-40 bridge disaster
May 1 –
Nicktoons TV (renamed
Nicktoons in 2003, then in 2009) launches in the United States.
May 3 –
Spider-Man
May 10 –
FBI agent
Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of
parole for selling American secrets to
Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
May 12 – Former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter arrives in
Cuba for a five-day visit with
Fidel Castro , becoming the first U.S. president, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959
revolution .
May 16 –
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
May 21 – The
State Department releases a report naming seven state sponsors of terrorism:
Iran ,
Iraq ,
Cuba ,
Libya ,
North Korea ,
Sudan and
Syria .
May 22
May 26 –
I-40 bridge disaster : A barge collides with the Interstate 40 bridge across the
Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, killing 14. June July August September
September 2 –
Liberty's Kids premieres on
PBS Kids .
September 4 –
Kelly Clarkson wins the first
American Idol competition.
September 5 – The
Sour Biscuit Fire in
Oregon and northern
California , which burned 499,570 acres (2,022 km2 ), is contained.
September 7 – The Fox Network's
Fox Kids block (which had been on the air since 1990) airs for the final time. It was replaced the following week (on September 14) by the 4Kids-programmed
FoxBox .
[5]
September 11 – Thousands of people in
New York City and across the nation attend ceremonies as the United States commemorates the first anniversary of the
9/11 attacks .
September 12 –
Iraq disarmament crisis : U.S. President
George W. Bush addresses the U.N., and challenges its members to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of
Iraq , or stand aside as the United States and likeminded nations act.
[3]
September 14 – Major upheavals take place on Saturday mornings, as the four major networks change their programming on this day.
Fox , having sold Fox Kids Worldwide to
The Walt Disney Company the previous year, ends
Fox Kids and sells its airtime to
4Kids Entertainment , who begin programming a new children's programming block as the
Fox Box . Disney, meanwhile, having acquired the Fox Kids brand, ends
Disney's One Saturday Morning on
ABC and renamed
ABC Kids .
CBS , whose then-corporate sibling
Nickelodeon programs its lineup, rebrands its
Nick Jr. on CBS block as
Nick on CBS and refocuses it on children 2–11 years old, while
NBC signs a contract with
Discovery Networks to air a programming strand called
Discovery Kids on NBC (a spinoff of a former digital cable channel
Discovery Kids ), which replaces the teen-oriented block
TNBC .
[5]
[6] October November
November 25: The
Department of Homeland Security is established
November 2 – The
Godless Americans March on Washington brings together 2,000 atheists, freethinkers, agnostics, and humanists in a mile-long parade down the
National Mall .
November 3 – The 7.9 Mw
Denali earthquake shakes the
Alaska Interior with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), causing one injury and $20–56 million in losses.
November 5 – Republicans gain a majority in the Senate and a larger majority in the
House of Representatives following
congressional elections .
[3]
November 6 – The U.S.
Federal Reserve System drops its primary discount rate by 25
basis points to 0.75%, putting the real
interest rate solidly below the
inflation rate .
November 7 –
Iran bans the advertising of United States products.
November 8 – The
United Nations passes
Resolution 1441 giving Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein a final opportunity to cooperate with international weapons inspectors.
[3]
November 12 – Toxicologist
Kristin Rossum is convicted of the 2000 murder of her husband Gregory de Viller in
San Diego . Rossum had poisoned her victim using
fentanyl , passing off the crime as a suicide.
[7]
November 16 – A
Campaign against Climate Change march takes place in
London from
Lincoln's Inn Fields , past
Esso offices to the United States Embassy.
November 25 – U.S. President
George W. Bush signs the
Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the
Department of Homeland Security . It was the largest U.S. government reorganization since the creation of the
Department of Defense in 1947.
November 27 –
Walt Disney Pictures ' 43rd feature film,
Treasure Planet , is released to positive reception, but turns outs to be a rare box office bomb from the studio. December Ongoing Full date unknown Births January
Lil Mosey
Caitlin Clark
February March April
Skai Jackson
Sadie Sink
May
Cree Cicchino
Trinity Rodman
June
Chandler Smith
July August September
Asher Angel
Gaten Matarazzo
Jenna Ortega
Maddie Ziegler
October
Jacob Sartorius
November
NLE Choppa
Madisyn Shipman
Giovanni Reyna
December Full date unknown Deaths January
Cyrus Vance
Peggy Lee
January 1
January 3 –
Miki Dora , surfer (b.
1934 )
January 4 –
Nathan Chapman , soldier (b.
1970 )
January 6 –
John W. Reynolds Jr. , politician and jurist (b.
1921 )
January 7
January 8 –
Dave Thomas , businessman (b.
1932 )
January 9 –
K. William Stinson , politician (b.
1930 )
January 10 –
John Buscema , comic book artist (b.
1927 )
January 12
January 13 –
Ted Demme , film and television director and producer (b.
1963 )
January 14 –
Edith Bouvier Beale , socialite (b.
1917 )
[18]
January 15 –
Michael Bilandic , politician,
Mayor of Chicago (b.
1923 )
January 16
January 18 –
Marilyn Harris , writer (b.
1931 )
January 20 –
Carrie Hamilton , actress and daughter of
Carol Burnett (b.
1963 )
January 21 –
Peggy Lee , singer, songwriter, and actress (b.
1920 )
January 22 –
Stanley Marcus , businessman and author (b.
1905 )
January 23 –
Robert Nozick , philosopher (b.
1938 )
January 25 –
Rudolph B. Davila , Army officer (b.
1916 )
January 28 –
Dick "Night Train" Lane , American football player (b.
1928 ) February
Waylon Jennings
Chuck Jones
February 1
February 2 –
Paul Baloff , singer (b.
1960 )
February 4 –
Helen Dodson Prince , astronomer (b.
1905 )
February 6 –
Guy Stockwell , actor (b.
1933 )
February 7
February 8 –
Nick Brignola , jazz musician (b.
1936 )
February 9 –
Fred Gehrke , football player (b.
1918 )
February 10
February 11 –
George Kasem , politician (b.
1919 )
February 13 –
Waylon Jennings , American country singer (b.
1937 )
February 15 –
Howard K. Smith , television journalist (b.
1914 )
February 18 –
Jack Lambert , actor (b.
1920 )
February 19 –
Virginia Hamilton , writer (b.
1936 )
February 20 –
Willie Thrower , American football player (b.
1930 )
February 22 –
Chuck Jones , animator (b.
1912 )
February 24
February 26 –
Lawrence Tierney , actor (b.
1919 )
February 27 –
Mary Stuart , actress (b.
1926 ) March
Milton Berle
March 1 –
C. Farris Bryant , politician (b.
1914 )
March 3 –
Al Pollard , football player (b.
1928 )
March 5 –
Howard Cannon , politician (b.
1912 )
March 7 –
Mickey Haslin , baseball player (b.
1909 )
March 9 –
Irene Worth , actress (b.
1916 )
March 11 –
James Tobin , Nobel economist (b.
1918 )
March 15 –
Sylvester Weaver , television executive (b.
1908 )
March 17 –
Rosetta LeNoire , actress (b.
1911 )
March 23 –
Eileen Farrell , soprano (b.
1920 )
March 26 –
Randy Castillo , musician (b.
1950 )
March 27
April
Robert Urich
April 5 –
Layne Staley , singer and songwriter (b.
1967 )
April 7 –
John Agar , actor (b.
1921 )
[19]
April 14 –
Arthur W. Coats Jr. , California politician (b.
1914 )
[20]
April 15 –
Byron White , athlete and Supreme Court Justice (b.
1917 )
April 16 –
Robert Urich , actor (b.
1946 )
April 18 –
Wahoo McDaniel , American football player and wrestler (b.
1938 )
April 22 –
Linda Lovelace , American pornographic actress (b.
1949 )
April 25 –
Lisa Lopes , rapper, died in
La Ceiba ,
Atlántida ,
Honduras (b.
1971 )
April 27
May June
Rosemary Clooney
June 5 –
Dee Dee Ramone , songwriter and musician (b.
1951 )
June 6 –
Robbin Crosby , guitarist (b.
1959 )
June 10
June 11 –
Robbin Crosby , musician (b.
1959 )
June 12 –
Bill Blass , fashion designer (b.
1922 )
[22]
June 17 –
Willie Davenport , track and field athlete (b.
1943 )
June 22
June 23 –
Logan Tucker , murder victim (b.
1996 )
June 26 –
Jay Berwanger , American football player (b.
1914 )
June 27 –
John Entwistle , English musician (b.
1944 )
June 29 –
Rosemary Clooney , singer and actress, and wife of
José Ferrer and mother of
Miguel Ferrer (b,
1928 ) July
July 2 –
Ray Brown , American bassist (b.
1926 )
July 4 –
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. , general (b.
1912 )
July 5 –
Ted Williams , baseball player (b.
1918 )
July 6 –
John Frankenheimer , film director (b.
1930 )
July 8 –
Ward Kimball , animator (b.
1913 )
July 9 –
Rod Steiger , actor and husband of
Claire Bloom (b.
1925 )
July 10 –
Laurence Janifer , writer (b.
1933 )
July 16 –
John Cocke , computer scientist (b.
1925 )
July 19 –
Alan Lomax , folklorist and musicologist (b.
1915 )
July 23 –
Chaim Potok , writer and rabbi (b.
1929 ) August
Lionel Hampton
September
Bob Hayes
September 3 –
Ted Ross , American actor (b.
1934 )
September 4 –
Jerome Biffle , American athlete (b.
1928 )
September 5 –
David Todd Wilkinson , American cosmologist (b.
1935 )
September 7 –
Erma Franklin , American singer (b.
1938 )
September 11
September 14
September 18 –
Bob Hayes , American football player and track and field athlete (b.
1942 )
September 21 –
Robert L. Forward , writer, inventor, and physicist (b.
1932 )
September 22 –
Mickey Newbury , American singer-songwriter (b.
1940 )
September 24 –
Mike Webster , football player (b.
1952 )
September 28 –
Whitney Blake , actress and director (b.
1926 ) October
Stephen E. Ambrose
c.
October 5 –
Jay R. Smith , American actor and comedian (b.
1915 )
October 9 –
Aileen Wuornos , American serial killer (b.
1956 )
October 10 –
Teresa Graves , American actress and comedian (b.
1948 )
October 12 –
Ray Conniff , musician and bandleader (b.
1916 )
October 13 –
Stephen Ambrose , American historian and biographer (b.
1936 )
October 17 –
Aileen Riggin , American swimmer and diver (b.
1906 )
October 18 –
Kam Fong Chun , American actor (b.
1918 )
October 23
October 24
October 25 –
Paul Wellstone , American politician (b.
1944 )
October 28 –
Margaret Booth , American film editor (b.
1898 )
October 30 –
Jam Master Jay , American Hip-Hop DJ (b.
1965 ) November
James Coburn
November 3 –
Jonathan Harris , actor (b.
1914 )
November 9 –
Merlin Santana , actor (b.
1976 )
November 14 –
Eddie Bracken , actor (b.
1915 )
November 15 –
Roberta Leighton , drag racer
November 18 –
James Coburn , actor (b.
1928 )
November 21 –
Hadda Brooks , jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b.
1916 )
November 24 –
John Rawls , philosopher (b.
1921 )
November 27 –
Billie Bird , actress and comedian (b.
1908 )
November 26 –
Verne Winchell , businessman (b.
1915 ) December Full date unknown See also References
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