What Happened In January 2002 In History

Historical Events for January, 2002

• 1st » Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
• 1st » The Treaty on Open Skies named Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force.
• 3rd » Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter 'Karine A Affair or Karine A' in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
• 8th » President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
• 16th » The United Nations Security Council named UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
• 17th » Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
• 22nd » Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
• 23rd » "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in Federal Bureau of Investigation e.g FBI custody.
• 23rd » Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapping known as kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered .
• 27th » Lagos armoury explosion e.g An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
• 28th » TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
• 29th » In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terrorism named terror" as an 'Axis of evil', in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

Famous Deaths for January 2002

• 1st » Julia Phillips, American film producer and author (b. 1944)
• 2nd » Armi Aavikko, Finnish model and singer, Miss Finland named Miss Finland 1977 (b. 1958)
• 3rd » Juan García Esquivel, Mexican pianist and composer (b. 1918)
• 3rd » Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (b. 1923)
• 3rd » Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (b.1920)
• 7th » Jon Lee (drummer) e.g Jon Lee, English drummer (Feeder, The Darling Buds, and Raindancer) (b. 1968)
• 7th » Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
• 8th » Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 10th » W. A. Criswell, American pastor and author (b. 1909)
• 12th » Stanley Unwin (comedian) named Stanley Unwin, South African actor (b. 1911)
• 12th » Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
• 13th » Ted Demme, American director and producer (b. 1963)
• 13th » Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman (b. 1897)
• 13th » Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1916)
• 15th » Michael Anthony Bilandic, American politician, 49th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
• 15th » Eugène Brands, Dutch painter (b. 1913)
• 15th » Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 16th » Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
• 16th » Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
• 16th » Ron Taylor (actor) called Ron Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1952)
• 17th » Camilo José Cela, Spanish author, Nobel Prize in Literature known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 17th » Bishop Karas, Sudanese-American bishop (b. 1955)
• 17th » Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
• 17th » Eddie Meduza, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 17th » Roman Personov, Russian physicist (b. 1932)
• 20th » Carrie Hamilton, American actress and singer (b. 1963)
• 21st » Peggy Lee, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1920)
• 22nd » Stanley Marcus, American businessman and author (b. 1905)
• 22nd » Peter Bardens, English keyboard player (Camel (band) e.g Camel, Mirage (band) named Mirage, and Shotgun Express) (b. 1945)
• 23rd » Paul Aars, American race car driver (b. 1934)
• 23rd » Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
• 23rd » Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
• 24th » Peter Gzowski, Canadian journalist and broadcaster (b. 1934)
• 24th » Elie Hobeika, Lebanese commander and politician (b. 1956)
• 28th » Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
• 28th » Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
• 28th » Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (b. 1946)
• 29th » Dick Lane (American football) known as Dick Lane, American football player (b. 1927)
• 29th » Harold Russell, Canadian-American actor (b. 1914)
• 30th » Edward Jewesbury, English actor (b. 1917)
• 31st » Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (b. 1919)

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