Wikipedia:ITN archives/2002
A list of items featured as breaking news or In the news on Wikipedia's Main Page in 2002. This is separate from the current events list; this list only shows items that were directly featured on the Main Page. The events shown generally did not have blurbs and were only links to articles.
Until October, this section was also inconsistently used for marking anniversaries, observances and recent deaths, which would today be placed in other places on the Main Page. Items like these are marked in this list with the category of event added in parentheses.
January[edit]
(None)
February[edit]
March[edit]
- March 26 (observance): Easter
- March 26 (observance): March equinox
- March 27 (death): Dudley Moore
- March 27 (death): Milton Berle
- March 28 (death): Billy Wilder
- March 28 (observance): Passover
- March 30: Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- March 30 (death): Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
- March 31 (observance): April Fool's Day[b]
April[edit]
- April 8: Poincaré conjecture[c]
- April 10: Pulitzer Prize
- April 13: Hugo Chavez[d]
- April 16 (death): Byron White
- April 23 (death): Linda Lovelace
- April 28: Pedophilia -- Catholicism[e]
May[edit]
- May 4: Jenin[f]
- May 6 (death): Pim Fortuyn
- May 6: Aung San Suu Kyi[g]
- May 18: Irish Election Results[h]
- May 20: East Timor[i]
- May 20 (death): Stephen Jay Gould
- May 22: Chandra Levy[j]
- May 23: Kashmir[k]
- May 26: Mars Odyssey
- May 30: Football World Cup 2002
June[edit]
- June 2: Kyoto Protocol
- June 10: Dirty bomb[l]
- June 17 (anniversary): Watergate scandal
July[edit]
- July 2: WorldCom[m]
- July 5: Accountancy scandals
- July 5 (death): Ted Williams[n]
- July 8: African Union
- July 12: Hominid
- July 15: Jacques Chirac[o]
- July 15: John Walker Lindh
- July 18: Abdul Kalam
- July 22: WorldCom
- July 23: Telstar
- July 28: Airshow[p]
- July 28: Tour de France
- July 29: Su-27
August[edit]
- August 1: Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
- August 4: Stock Market Crash of 2002
- August 6 (death): Chick Hearn
- August 6 (death): Edsger Dijkstra
- August 12 (death): Enos Slaughter
- August 14: 100-year flood
- August 15: Accounting scandals
- August 15: Marwan Barghouti
- August 19 (death): Abu Nidal
- August 22: Jean Chretien
- August 23: West Nile virus
- August 24 (death): Hoyt Wilhelm
September[edit]
- September 3 (death): Lionel Hampton
- September 9: Pete Sampras - Andre Agassi
- September 11: Switzerland
- September 11 (anniversary): In Memoriam: September 11, 2001
- September 12 (death): Johnny Unitas
- September 12 (anniversary): September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
- September 14: Ramzi Binalshibh
- September 16: Tim Montgomery
- September 17: U.S. plan to invade Iraq
- September 17: Great Pyramid of Giza
- September 19: Maurice Papon
- September 19 (death): Bob Hayes
- September 21: U.S. plan to invade Iraq
- September 21 (observance): Oktoberfest
- September 23: Gerhard Schröder
- September 23 (death): Robert L. Forward
- September 24 (anniversary): Apollo 12
October[edit]
- October 2 (death): Walter Annenberg
- October 3 (death): Bruce Paltrow
- October 5 (anniversary): Sputnik I
- October 5: John Walker Lindh
- October 6 (death): Claus von Amsberg
- October 7: Bertrand Delanoë
- October 8: Quaoar
- October 8: Nobel Prize
- October 9: Queen of Canada
- October 10: Eldred v. Ashcroft
- October 11: Jimmy Carter
- October 12: Vantaa
- October 14: Bali
- October 14 (death): Stephen Ambrose
- October 18: War on Terrorism
- October 18: Terrorist incidents
- October 18: Washington sniper
- October 18: Jemaah Islamiyah
- October 18: Myyrmanni bombing
- October 18: Bali car bombing
- October 18: Sagittarius A
- October 18: North Korea nuclear weapons program
- October 18: first Balkenende cabinet
- October 20: Treaty of Nice
- October 20: Kramnik v. Deep Fritz
- October 22: Washington sniper
- October 25: Chechnya
- October 26: Blue Gene
- October 27: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
- October 28: Anaheim Angels
- October 31: Moscow theatre siege
November[edit]
- November 1: Walter Mondale
- November 2: Microsoft antitrust case
- November 2: San Giuliano di Puglia
- November 7: U.S. Senate
- November 8: UN Security Council resolution on Iraq
- November 11: gravitational waves
- November 13: antibiotic resistance
- November 15: Nancy Pelosi
- November 15: Ethiopian famine
- November 19: Leonids
- November 19: Oil spill off Spanish coast
- November 25: rabies
- November 26: Volkert van der Graaf
- November 26: Miss World
- November 26: Dept. of Homeland Security
- November 26: UK Firefighter strike 2002
- November 30: Henry Kissinger
- November 30: Severino Antinori
December[edit]
- December 9: Van Gogh Museum
- December 9: Akhmed Zakayev
- December 14: Ariane 5
- December 14: European Union
- December 15: Bernard Law
- December 15: Trent Lott
- December 24: Bill Frist
- December 27: Katie Hnida
- December 28: Chechnya
- December 28: Raelism
- December 29: North Korea
- December 29: Daniel arap Moi
Notes[edit]
- ^ Regarding the Enron scandal
- ^ Originally with a hoax suggesting Encyclopaedia Britannica had sent Jimmy Wales a cease and desist letter, which was withdrawn after two minutes
- ^ Regarding Grigori Perelman's proof of the conjecture
- ^ Regarding the 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt
- ^ Likely regarding the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
- ^ Likely regarding the Battle of Jenin (2002)
- ^ Regarding her release
- ^ Regarding the 2002 Irish general election
- ^ Regarding East Timor independence
- ^ Regarding Killing of Chandra Levy
- ^ Unclear
- ^ Regarding José Padilla (criminal)
- ^ Regarding WorldCom scandal
- ^ From July 11 to August 6, recent deaths are moved to their own section called Recent celebrity deaths.
- ^ Regarding an assassination attempt
- ^ Regarding Sknyliv air show disaster