Date: October 31, 2002
An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others. Date: January 27, 2002 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 27 📅 Events on this day in 2002 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2002Pim Fortuyn Assassinated After Radio…
Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posts the first of three preprint texts with his proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It remains the only of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics to be solved. He later refused both the prize money from Clay Mathematics Institute as well as the Fields Medal for his work. Date: November 11,…
An earthquake in Mindanao, Philippines, kills 15 people and injures more than 100. Date: March 5, 2002 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 5 📅 Events on this day in 2002 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2002Slobodan Milošević Trial Begins at The Hague, February 12, 2002International Criminal Court…
Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush. Date: February 22, 2002 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 22 📅 Events on this day in 2002 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2002Portugal Recognizes East Timor Independence After Indonesian Rule, May 20, 2002Veterans Day…
TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100, crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94. Date: January 28, 2002 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 28 📅 Events on this day in 2002 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2002Mount Nyiragongo Erupts, Displacing 400,000 in DR Congo -…
The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson. Date: July 10, 2002 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 10 📅 Events on this day in 2002 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2002Andrew Fastow…