What Happened In July 2002 In History

Historical Events for July, 2002

• 1st » The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
• 1st » Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and a Deutsche Post named DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 Überlingen mid-air collision named collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board.
• 2nd » Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
• 14th » French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
• 15th » "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
• 15th » Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to United Kingdom or British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering 'The Wall Street Journal' reporter Daniel Pearl.
• 24th » Democratic Party (United States) or Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.

Famous Birthdays on July in 2002

• 22nd » Prince Felix of Denmark
• 30th » Prince Hridayendra of Nepal

Famous Deaths for July 2002

• 2nd » Ray Brown (musician) called Ray Brown, American bassist and composer (b. 1926)
• 4th » Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1919)
• 4th » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general (b. 1912)
• 4th » Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian theorist (b. 1951)
• 4th » Winnifred Quick, English-American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
• 5th » Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
• 5th » Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
• 6th » Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman, founded Reliance Industries (b. 1932)
• 6th » John Frankenheimer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 8th » Ward Kimball, American animator and trombonist (Firehouse Five Plus Two) (b. 1914)
• 9th » Mayo Kaan, American bodybuilder (b. 1914)
• 9th » Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
• 10th » Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
• 10th » Evangelos Florakis, Greek general (b. 1943)
• 10th » Laurence Janifer, American author (b. 1933)
• 13th » Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-Canadian photographer (b. 1908)
• 14th » Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 41st President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
• 14th » Fritz Glatz, Austrian race car driver (b. 1943)
• 16th » John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
• 18th » Victor Emery, English physicist (b. 1933)
• 18th » Louis Laberge, Canadian union leader (b. 1924)
• 19th » Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer) (b. 1952)
• 19th » Alan Lomax, American historian, scholar, and activist (b. 1915)
• 20th » Michalis Kritikopoulos Greek footballer (b. 1946)
• 21st » Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 23rd » Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (b. 1920)
• 23rd » William Luther Pierce, American activist and author (b. 1933)
• 23rd » Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author (b. 1929)
• 25th » Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher and poet (b. 1917)
• 28th » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

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