July 2002 calendar

July 2002
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in July 2002.
The US president was George W. Bush (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Tony Blair (Labour), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on July 2002: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of July 2002?

Events

01 Jul 2002 A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2977) Tupolev TU-154, and a DHL German cargo (Boeing 757) collide mid-air above Ueberlingen in southern Germany, killing 71.
02 Jul 2002 Steve Fossett becomes first solo pilot to fly non-stop around the globe in a balloon.
03 Jul 2002 Columbia Pictures distributed "Men in Black II" to movie theaters.
05 Jul 2002 Recent celebrity deaths: Ted Williams (baseball player), aged 83.
07 Jul 2002 The scandal broke out when British news reports accused MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada (the supposed European Al Qaeda leader).
08 Jul 2002 Organization of African Unity is disbanded. African Union is created.
09 Jul 2002 Peter Paul Rubens' painting, ampquotThe Massacre of the Innocentsampquot (first edition) was sold at Sotheby's for PS49.5million (US$76.2million) to Kenneth Thomson (2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet).
10 Jul 2002 Michel Brunet, a French paleontologist, stated in the journal Nature that a skull dated 7 million years old found in the desert of Chad was the oldest known hominid fossil. However, he was quickly met with criticism by other scientists who claimed that the skull is not of an ape and could be a proto-gorilla.
11 Jul 2002 A group of Moroccan soldiers established a base on Perejil Island.
14 Jul 2002 During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac missed a bullet from an assassin.
15 Jul 2002 John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban", pleads guilty in Washington, DC to aiding the enemy, and possessing explosives during the commission a felony. Lindh agrees that he will spend ten years prison time for each of the charges.
18 Jul 2002 Patents: Forgent Networks claims that it has and will enforce patent rights to the JPEG image compression standard, which is widely used on the World Wide Web. This announcement is a resounding defeat for Unisys' efforts to assert its rights over GIF image compression standards.
19 Jul 2002 In the Chinese province Henan, Hail kills 25 people and injures many more.
20 Jul 2002 South America: More than twenty-five people are killed by a fire at a discotheque located in Lima, Peru.
21 Jul 2002 Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet crashes at an Ukrainian air show, killing 77 people and injuring over 100 others. (See Sknyliv airshow catastrophe).
22 Jul 2002 Parts of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands were struck by an earthquake measuring magnitude 4.7.
23 Jul 2002 Recent celebrity deaths: Chaim Potter, novelist, dies from cancer at the age of 73.
24 Jul 2002 On a vote of 420-1, James Traficant, Democrat, is expelled from United States House of Representatives.
25 Jul 2002 The United States made a proposal to defer the adoption of a new United Nations Anti-Torture Pact. It was defeated 15-29. After that, the Economic and Social Council adopted the pact. The United States expressed concern that American state prisons could be subject to inspection if the General Assembly adopted the pact.
27 Jul 2002 Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes at Lviv, Ukraine, killing 85 people and injuring over 100 more. This is the worst airshow accident in Ukraine history.
28 Jul 2002 Cyclist Lance Armstrong wins his fourth consecutive Tour de France.
29 Jul 2002 England defeats India in the first cricket test match of the series.
30 Jul 2002 Sotheby's New York auctions the King Farouk double eagle of the US 1933 Saint-Gaudens Saint-Gaudens for $7,590,000. This is a world record price for a single coin sold at auction. The $20 is a $20 Federal Reserve note that David Redden paid to Henrietta Holsman, Mint Director, to officially monetize this coin.
31 Jul 2002 A bomb explodes in the cafeteria of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine.
01 Jul 2002 Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.