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Significant Events of 2002

Test your knowledge of significant events that occurred in 2002 with this engaging quiz.

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1 December 29 – The Communist New People's Army blows up a bust of Ferdinand Marcos in ________, Philippines.

2 The Notion Club Papers by ________ (1945): About one-quarter of the papers are found among sacks of waste paper at Oxford by a Mr.

3 November 17 – ________, Israeli politician and diplomat, 3rd Minister of Foreign Affairs (b.

4 ________ – An annular solar eclipse occurs.

5 ________ – Hans Janmaat, Dutch politician (b.

6 ________ – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b.

7 ________ – São Tomé and Príncipe hold legislative elections.

8 May 26 – A barge collides with the Interstate 40 bridge across the ________ in eastern Oklahoma, killing 14.

9 President, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's ________ revolution.

10 March 24 – The ________, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California with the film A Beautiful Mind winning Best Picture.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • on May 3, 2002 a military MiG-21bis aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
  • in 2002 the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad bought 41½ miles (66.8 km) of track between Meadville and Corry, Pennsylvania for $1.
  • the 7.9 Mw Denali Fault earthquake on November 3, 2002 was the strongest shock ever recorded in the interior of Alaska.
  • the 2001 single by Mylène Farmer, C'est une belle journée, was released in April, 2002 after the success of the album, Les Mots, rather than its scheduled date of release.
  • the phrase "Up to eleven", inspired by a scene from the 1984 film This is Spinal Tap, was entered into the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in 2002 with the definition "up to maximum volume".
  • a 2002 BBC World Service global poll voted A Nation Once Again the world's most popular tune.
  • Dutch bus-building firm Den Oudsten was founded in 1926 and went out of business in 2002.
  • Émile Boga Doudou was killed on September 19, 2002 in Abidjan in the worst outbreak of violence in Cote d'Ivoire since a military coup d'etat in 1999.
  • Danielle Reyes finished second place on the American version of Big Brother in 2002.
  • Evan Taubenfeld was Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist from Spring 2002 to September 2004.
  • J002E3 was at first thought to be a new moon of the Earth when discovered in 2002 but later found to be the third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V.
  • California's current State Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman ran for State Attorney General in 2002.
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