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![]() High School Richfield, Minnesota - USA Class of 2002 |
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The Year 2002:
- Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic’s trial on charges of crimes against humanity opens at The Hague.
- U.S. and Afghan troops launch Operation Anaconda against remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
- Israeli tanks and warplanes attack West Bank towns in response to string of Palestinian suicide attacks.
- U.S. and Russia reach landmark arms agreement to cut both countries' nuclear arsenals by up to two-thirds over the next 10 years.
- Terrorist bomb in Bali kills hundreds.
- North Korea admits to developing nuclear arms in defiance of treaty.
- UN arms inspectors return to Iraq.
- Kenneth L. Lay, chairman of bankrupt energy trader Enron, resigns.
- Pennsylvania miners rescued after spending 77 hours in a dark, flooded mine shaft.
- Bush addresses United Nations, calling for a "regime change" in Iraq.
- Snipers prey upon DC suburbs, killing ten and wounding others.
- Boston archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law resigns as a result of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandals.
- AIDS deaths are projected to skyrocket.
- Study finds that hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women can cause increases in rate of breast cancer, heart attacks, blood clots, and strokes.
- 7-million-year-old skull is discovered in Chad by French scientists.
- Milton Berle, Rosemary Clooney, Ray Conniff, Dan Devine, Queen Mother Elizabeth, John Entwistle, John Gotti, Lionel Hampton, Richard Harris, Thor Heyerdahl, Waylon Jennings, Ann Landers, Peggy Lee, Princess Margaret, Dudley Moore, Sam Snead, Rod Steiger, Johnny Unitas, Paul Wellstone, Hoyt Wilhelm, and Ted Williams die.
- The MTV reality show The Osbournes debuts..
- A Beautiful Mind wins Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards.
- The movie Spider-Man was the year's box-office blockbuster, grossing more than $406 million.
- 2015 graduates enter kindergarten.
- 2020/2021 graduates are born.
- More 2002 events
Greetings RHS Class of 2002! |
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