June 2002 calendar

Events

• 05 Jun 2002 Elizabeth Smart, aged fourteen years old, is abducted from her bedroom at knifepoint.
• 06 Jun 2002 Eastern Mediterranean Event. Near-Earth Asteroid of 10m in Diameter Explodes over the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Libya. It is thought that the explosion produced 26 kilotons of energy, which is slightly less than the Nagasaki nuclear bomb.
• 08 Jun 2002 An annular solar eclipse occurs.
• 10 Jun 2002 Technology - Kevin Warwick, a British engineer, is responsible for the first direct electronic communication experiment between two human nervous systems.
• 11 Jun 2002 The United States Congress recognizes Antonio Meucci as the original inventor of the telephone.
• 13 Jun 2002 The United States of America has withdrawn from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 14 Jun 2002 Astrophysics - A 2002 MN asteroid, which is about the same size as a soccer field, just missed hitting the Earth.
• 15 Jun 2002 Near-Earth Asteroid 2002 MN misses Earth by 75,000 Miles (121,000 Kilometers), or one-third the distance between Earth and the Moon.
• 16 Jun 2002 Pope John Paul II made Pio di Pietrelcina a Saint.
• 18 Jun 2002 BT Cellnet will be rebranded as O2 starting at 6 pm
• 20 Jun 2002 Law - The United States Supreme Court asks about the need for Internet filters.
• 22 Jun 2002 Darryl Kile, Saint Louis Cardinals pitcher, is found dead in his Chicago hotel room from a heart attack.
• 25 Jun 2002 Entertainment
• 26 Jun 2002 Law - A federal court in San Francisco ruled that the Pledge to Allegiance was unconstitutional because it contained an ampquotunder Godampquot clause.
• 27 Jun 2002 Accounting scandals - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has initiated fraud action against WorldCom.
• 29 Jun 2002 For two hours, Dick Cheney, the U.S. Vice-President of the United States, serves as Acting President while President George W. Bush goes through a colonoscopy.
• 30 Jun 2002 To prosecute people for crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes and the crime of aggressiveness, the International Criminal Court was established. The court may prosecute crimes committed after or on this date.

Famous Birthday

• Mason Vale Cotton

  American actor.

• Hattie Gotobed
• Amerah Solomon

  American child of large and controversial family; all 14 children were born using in vitro fertilization and implantation.

• Madison Hu

  TV Actress.

• Blake Duffy

  YouNow Star.

• Grayson Riggs

  Family Member.

• Jonah KittiesMama

  YouTube Star.

• Belinda Mariano

  TV Actress.

• Matthew Zhang

  TV Actor.

• Isaak Presley

  TV Actor.

• Jake Goodman

  TV Actor.

• Lush Leah

  YouTube Star.

• Crystianna Summers

  Dancer.

• Nathan Gurd

  Pop Singer.

• Aaliyah Rose

  YouTube Star.

• Joshua Price

  Dancer.

• Marlhy Murphy

  YouTube Star.

• Countess Eloise

  Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau van Amsberg.

• Miraya Gandhi

  Indian child of politician Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra.

• Eva Bella

  Voice Actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Robbin Crosby

  American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt) (d. 2002).

• Timothy Findley

  Canadian novelist and playwright (Born 1930).

• Basappa Danappa Jatti

  former Vice-President of India and Acting President (Born 1912).

• Choi Hong Hi

  South Korean founder of Taekwondo (Born 1918).

• Robert L J Long

  American admiral (Born 1920).

• Fernando Belaunde Terry

  President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms (1963–1968 and 1980–1985).

• Ann Landers

  American columnist who, with her twin sister Abigail Van Buren, both became nationally syndicated advice columnists.

• Gwen Plumb

  Australian actress and comedienne who began her career in 1931 as a member of Gwen Meridith's Drama Club.

• Francois Perier

  French actor (Born 1919).

• Jean Corbeil

  Canadian lawyer and politician 29th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 2002).

• Jay Berwanger

  American football player and first recipient of the Heisman Trophy (Born 1914).

• Chico Xavier

  Brazilian spiritist medium (Born 1910).

• Tinus Osendarp

  Dutch sprinter and police officer (d. 2002).

• June Jordan

  American poet, writer and teacher (d. 2002).

• Erwin Chargaff

  Austrian-American biochemist and academic (d. 2002).

• Jack Buck

  American baseball announcer (Born 1924).

• Ole-Johan Dahl

  Norwegian computer scientist and academic co-developed Simula (d. 2002).

• Darryl Kile

  American baseball player (Born 1968).

• John Hope

  American meteorologist (Born 1919).

• John Hope

  American meteorologist (Born 1919).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ashanti - Foolish
2. Nelly - Hot In Herre
3. P. Diddy - I Need A Girl (Part One)
4. Eminem - Without Me
5. Fat Joe - What's Luv?

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. S Club Juniors - One Step Closer
2. Eminem - Without Me
3. Holly Valance - Kiss Kiss
4. Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation
5. Sugababes - Freak Like Me