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2002 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2030. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

2002 Calendar

Historical Events Of 2002

• January 3, 2002 – Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
• February 12, 2002 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
• March 1, 2002 – The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
• May 4, 2002 – EAS Airlines Flight 4226 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff, killing 149 people.
• 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 24, 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
• July 25, 2002 – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam became the 11th president of India.
• October 23, 2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
• November 15, 2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

Who Were Born On 2002?

• February 26, 2002 – Kendra and Maliyah Herrin, American conjoined twins
• April 21, 2002 – Carl and Clarence Aguirre, Filipino-American conjoined twins
• May 4, 2002 – Anastasiya Petryk, Ukrainian singer
• May 6, 2002 – Emily Alyn Lind, American actress
• July 22, 2002 – Prince Felix of Denmark
• July 30, 2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal
• September 3, 2002 – Bugoy Cariño, Filipino actor and dancer
• September 30, 2002 – Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress
• November 14, 2002 – Ben Bowen, American brain cancer victim (d. 2005)
• December 9, 2002 – Timothy Chan, Filipino-Chinese actor