January 2002 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 2002 Twelve member states of the European Union have made euro banknotes and euros coins legal tender.
• 02 Jan 2002 The 2002 Tennessee quarter-dollar is now in circulation at the US Mint
• 03 Jan 2002 Freddy Heineken, the beer brewer and grandfather of the brewery's founder, died at home at the age 78.
• 04 Jan 2002 U.S. officials announced that they had custody of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi
• 05 Jan 2002 Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot crashes a light plane into a Tampa, Florida, building. This evokes fear of an imitating 9/11 terrorist attack.
• 08 Jan 2002 IBM announced that it will cease manufacturing desktop personal computers in most parts of the globe. It will sell its desktop equipment in the US and Europe to Sanmina SCI.
• 12 Jan 2002 The X (roller coaster), opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, Santa Clarita, California.
• 14 Jan 2002 New York hears the asylum case of Adelaide Abankwah
• 16 Jan 2002 John Ashcroft, the U.S. Attorney General, announces that John Walker Lindh, an American Taliban member will be tried in the United States.
• 18 Jan 2002 The Sierra Leone Civil War has been ended.
• 20 Jan 2002 Speed skating: world championships sprint, Hamar, Norway. Canada's Katriona Lemay Doan wins the women's competition (2. Andrea Nuyt, Neth., 3. Anzhela Kotyuaga, Bel. ), Jeremy Wotherspoon (also from Canada) becomes the male champion in the men’s competition (2. Casey Fitzrandolph, US, 3. Michael Ireland, Can. ).
• 22 Jan 2002 Kmart is the first retailer to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in America's history.
• 23 Jan 2002 Daniel Pearl, Wall Street Journal reporter, is kidnapped by his captors in Pakistan and accused of being an agent for the US Central Intelligence Agency.
• 24 Jan 2002 Enron hearings begin.
• 27 Jan 2002 A blast at a military storage unit in Lagos, Nigeria kills at most 1,100 people and causes more than 20,000 injuries.
• 29 Jan 2002 Geography:
• 31 Jan 2002 Large sections of the Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf begin to disintegrate, taking about 35 days.

Famous Birthday

• RiverBleu

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• River Bleu

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• Stephanie Gomez

  Family Member.

• Alana Gordillo

  TV Actress.

• Weston Koury

  YouNow Star.

• Jalen Brooks

  Musical.

• Tre Brooks

  Musical.

• Haley Huelsman

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• Samuel Joslin

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• Avery Winter

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Famous Deaths

• Peggy Lee

  American singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist.

• Armi Aavikko

  Finnish Beauty Queen, a singer and model.

• Henri Verneuil

  Turkish-French director producer and screenwriter (d. 2002).

• Michael Anthony Bilandic

  American politician (d. 2002).

• Carrie Hamilton

  American actress, singer, and playwright.

• WA Criswell

  American (Baptist) preacher (Born 1909).

• Gregorio Fuentes

  Cuban fisherman, Ernest Hemingway's first mate (Born 1897).

• Robert Hanbury Brown

  British astronomer and physicist (Born 1916).

• Elie Hobeika

  Lebanese Forces militia commander (Born 1956).

• Dick ''Night Train'' Lane

  American football player (Born 1928).

• Francis Gabreski

  American, fighter pilot ace (Born 1919).

• Struan Sutherland

  Australian pharmacologist, physician, epidemiologist, author, and professor, who development of an anti-venom for the Sydney Funnel web...

• Eddie Meduza

  Swedish composer (Born 1948).

• Steve Gromek

  American baseball player (Born 1920).

• Queenie Leonard

  English-American actress and singer (d. 2002).

• Gustaaf Deloor

  Belgian cyclist and soldier (d. 2002).

• Peter Gzowski

  Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (Born 1934).

• Avery Schreiber

  American actor (Born 1935).

• Stanley Marcus

  American business executive (Born 1905).

• Julia Phillips

  American film producer and author (d. 2002).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Nickelback - How You Remind Me
2. Usher - U Got It Bad
3. Mary J. Blige - Family Affair
4. Ja Rule - Always On Time
5. Pink - Get The Party Started

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)
2. Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
3. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor
4. Daniel Bedingfield - If You're Not The One
5. Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman - Somethin' Stupid