Wikipedia:ITN archives/2002

A list of items featured as breaking news or In the news on Wikipedia's Main Page in 2002. This is separate from the current events list; this list only shows items that were directly featured on the Main Page. The events shown generally did not have blurbs and were only links to articles.

Until October, this section was also inconsistently used for marking anniversaries, observances and recent deaths, which would today be placed in other places on the Main Page. Items like these are marked in this list with the category of event added in parentheses.

January
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February

 * : 2002 Winter Olympics
 * : Enron

March

 * (observance): Easter
 * (observance): March equinox
 * (death): Dudley Moore
 * (death): Milton Berle
 * (death): Billy Wilder
 * (observance): Passover
 * : Israeli-Palestinian conflict
 * (death): Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
 * (observance): April Fool's Day

April

 * : Poincaré conjecture
 * : Pulitzer Prize
 * : Hugo Chavez
 * (death): Byron White
 * (death): Linda Lovelace
 * : Pedophilia -- Catholicism

May

 * : Jenin
 * (death): Pim Fortuyn
 * : Aung San Suu Kyi
 * : Irish Election Results
 * : East Timor
 * (death): Stephen Jay Gould
 * : Chandra Levy
 * : Kashmir
 * : Mars Odyssey
 * : Football World Cup 2002

June

 * : Kyoto Protocol
 * : Dirty bomb
 * (anniversary): Watergate scandal

July

 * : WorldCom
 * : Accountancy scandals
 * (death): Ted Williams
 * : African Union
 * : Hominid
 * : Jacques Chirac
 * : John Walker Lindh
 * : Abdul Kalam
 * : WorldCom
 * : Telstar
 * : Airshow
 * : Tour de France
 * : Su-27

August

 * : Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
 * : Stock Market Crash of 2002
 * (death): Chick Hearn
 * (death): Edsger Dijkstra
 * (death): Enos Slaughter
 * : 100-year flood
 * : Accounting scandals
 * : Marwan Barghouti
 * (death): Abu Nidal
 * : Jean Chretien
 * : West Nile virus
 * (death): Hoyt Wilhelm

September

 * (death): Lionel Hampton
 * : Pete Sampras - Andre Agassi
 * : Switzerland
 * (anniversary): In Memoriam: September 11, 2001
 * (death): Johnny Unitas
 * (anniversary): September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
 * : Ramzi Binalshibh
 * : Tim Montgomery
 * : U.S. plan to invade Iraq
 * : Great Pyramid of Giza
 * : Maurice Papon
 * (death): Bob Hayes
 * : U.S. plan to invade Iraq
 * (observance): Oktoberfest
 * : Gerhard Schröder
 * (death): Robert L. Forward
 * (anniversary): Apollo 12

October

 * (death): Walter Annenberg
 * (death): Bruce Paltrow
 * (anniversary): Sputnik I
 * : John Walker Lindh
 * (death): Claus von Amsberg
 * : Bertrand Delanoë
 * : Quaoar
 * : Nobel Prize
 * : Queen of Canada
 * : Eldred v. Ashcroft
 * : Jimmy Carter
 * : Vantaa
 * : Bali
 * (death): Stephen Ambrose
 * : War on Terrorism
 * : Terrorist incidents
 * : Washington sniper
 * : Jemaah Islamiyah
 * : Myyrmanni bombing
 * : Bali car bombing
 * : Sagittarius A
 * : North Korea nuclear weapons program
 * : first Balkenende cabinet
 * : Treaty of Nice
 * : Kramnik v. Deep Fritz
 * : Washington sniper
 * : Chechnya
 * : Blue Gene
 * : Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
 * : Anaheim Angels
 * : Moscow theatre siege

November

 * : Walter Mondale
 * : Microsoft antitrust case
 * : San Giuliano di Puglia
 * : U.S. Senate
 * : UN Security Council resolution on Iraq
 * : gravitational waves
 * : antibiotic resistance
 * : Nancy Pelosi
 * : Ethiopian famine
 * : Leonids
 * : Oil spill off Spanish coast
 * : rabies
 * : Volkert van der Graaf
 * : Miss World
 * : Dept. of Homeland Security
 * : UK Firefighter strike 2002
 * : Henry Kissinger
 * : Severino Antinori

December

 * : Van Gogh Museum
 * : Akhmed Zakayev
 * : Ariane 5
 * : European Union
 * : Bernard Law
 * : Trent Lott
 * : Bill Frist
 * : Katie Hnida
 * : Chechnya
 * : Raelism
 * : North Korea
 * : Daniel arap Moi