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February 2002 was the second month of that common year. The month, which began on a Friday , ended on a Thursday after 28 days.
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from February 2002.
February 3, 2002 (2002-02-03 ) (Sunday)
February 5, 2002 (2002-02-05 ) (Tuesday)
February 6, 2002 (2002-02-06 ) (Wednesday)
Proclamation by Mayor Martin O'Malley designating February 6, 2002, as "Beverly Lynn Burns
Day" in Baltimore, Maryland.
February 8, 2002 (2002-02-08 ) (Friday)
The opening ceremony of the Salt Lake City
.
John Entwistle plays his last show with The Who . He would die shortly after this performance.
East West MRT line
.
February 10, 2002 (2002-02-10 ) (Sunday)
Al-Talaba
1-0 in the final.
February 11, 2002 (2002-02-11 ) (Monday)
British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.
New British digital free-to-air television channels , launch at 6am from the BBC Television centre, London.
February 16, 2002 (2002-02-16 ) (Saturday)
275 animal rights activists unite in front of the
D.C. Neiman Marcus to demand that the company stop supporting the fur industry.
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George W. Bush's weekly Presidential Radio Address, titled Asia Trip , discusses foreign relations.
February 20, 2002 (2002-02-20 ) (Wednesday)
Palindrome day , at 8:02 pm, on February 20, 2002, the date is read officially as 20:02, 20, 02, 2002, or 2002, 2002, 2002.
February 22, 2002 (2002-02-22 ) (Friday)
February 26, 2002 (2002-02-26 ) (Tuesday)
12 Shiite Muslims are killed in a mosque in
Rawalpindi , Pakistan.
Big riot between Muslims and Hindus.
February 27, 2002 (2002-02-27 ) (Wednesday)
Alicia Keys wins six Grammys.
Today is the centennial of John Steinbeck 's birth.
" fighters, though Russia protests.
57 people die in Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists returning from
Ayodhya en route to
Ahmedabad . After detaching the burned carriage, the train continues to
Vadodara , where Hindus beat and stab people leaving the train, killing one. A 17-year-old is later killed in Godhra by police trying to disrupt mobs.
Comedian Spike Milligan dies from liver disease, aged 83.
February 28, 2002 (2002-02-28 ) (Thursday)
Member of Parliament,
Ehsan Jafri , were burnt alive, while 31 others went missing after the incident, later presumed dead, bringing the total of the dead to 69.
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