What Happened In February 2002 In History

Historical Events for February, 2002

• 1st » Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
• 12th » The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Serbia and Montenegro called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years
• 12th » An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
• 14th » The Budapest Open Access Initiative, one of the cornerstones of the Open access movement, was released to the public.
• 22nd » Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
• 27th » Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hinduism called Hindu prigrims.
• 28th » During the 2002 Gujarat riots named religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.

Famous Birthdays on February in 2002

• 5th » Davis Cleveland, American actor
• 21st » Prince Michael Jackson II, American son of Michael Jackson
• 26th » Kendra and Maliyah Herrin, American conjoined twins

Famous Deaths for February 2002

• 1st » Hildegard Knef, German actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 2nd » Paul Baloff, American singer-songwriter (Exodus (band) e.g Exodus) (b. 1960)
• 2nd » Claude Brown, American author (b. 1937)
• 4th » George Nader, American actor (b. 1921)
• 4th » Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1907)
• 6th » Max Perutz, Austrian biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 7th » Jack Fairman, English race car driver (b. 1913)
• 7th » Tony Pond, English race car driver (b. 1945)
• 8th » Ong Teng Cheong, Singaporean politician, 5th President of Singapore (b. 1936)
• 8th » Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)
• 9th » Isabelle Holland, American author (b. 1920)
• 9th » Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (b. 1930)
• 9th » Vicente Sardinero, Spanish opera singer (b. 1937)
• 10th » Ramón Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker (b. 1964)
• 10th » Traudl Junge, German secretary (b. 1920)
• 10th » Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 11th » Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• 11th » Barry Foster (actor) named Barry Foster, English actor (b. 1931)
• 12th » John Eriksen, Danish footballer (b. 1957)
• 13th » Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Highwaymen (country supergroup) known as The Highwaymen) (b. 1937)
• 14th » Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
• 14th » Mick Tucker, English drummer (Sweet (band) known as Sweet) (b. 1947)
• 15th » Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
• 15th » Kevin Smith (New Zealand actor) e.g Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
• 16th » Walter Winterbottom, England footballer and manager (b. 1913)
• 19th » Virginia Hamilton, American author (b. 1934)
• 21st » Harold Furth, Austrian-American physicist (b. 1939)
• 21st » John Thaw, English actor (b. 1942)
• 22nd » Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (b. 1916)
• 22nd » Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 22nd » Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
• 22nd » Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA (b. 1934)
• 24th » Arthur Lyman, American marimba player (b. 1932)
• 24th » Leo Ornstein, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (b. 1912)
• 26th » Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
• 27th » Spike Milligan, Indian-Irish comedian, actor, and author (b. 1918)
• 28th » Mary Stuart (actress) known as Mary Stuart, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
• 28th » Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and composer (b. 1920)

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