March 2002 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 2002 Space Shuttle Columbia flies Hubble Space Telescope service mission. This is its last flight before STS-107.
• 02 Mar 2002 U.S. invades Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda starts (ending March 19, after 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters have been killed, and 11 Western troop deaths).
• 03 Mar 2002 Conflict between Israel and Palestine: A Palestinian sniper fires from a hill close to Ofra, killing seven soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces and three Israeli settlers. Six more are injured. Later, he is captured and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 04 Mar 2002 Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers die trying to infiltrate Shahi Kot Valley with a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
• 11 Mar 2002 Robert Mugabe won the Zimbabwe election with 54% vote, compared to Morgan Tsvangirai’s 40%. This was a 55.9% turnout. His win is controversial. It comes amid allegations that many people were prevented from voting and that there was an intimidation campaign. However, observers from South Africa and Organisation of African Unity believe that the result is valid.
• 12 Mar 2002 Andrea Yates, a Houston, Texas mother, is found guilty in June 2000 of drowning five children. Later, she is sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 14 Mar 2002 A massive pileup of 125 vehicles is taking place on Interstate 75 in Ringgold (Georgia), USA.
• 18 Mar 2002 U.S. invasion in Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda is over (started March 2), after 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters were killed. There were 11 allied troop deaths.
• 19 Mar 2002 After a chaotic presidential election, Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth.
• 20 Mar 2002 The McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation is passed 60-40 by the U.S. Senate.
• 21 Mar 2002 Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects were charged in Pakistan with murder in connection to the kidnapping, killing, and attempted murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
• 23 Mar 2002 Two to three million members of trade unions gathered in Rome to protest the labor legislation filed by Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, and the assassination by the reformed Red Brigades of Marco Biagi (an advisor to the Labor Minister). If the legislation is not passed, labor leaders will threaten a general strike.
• 24 Mar 2002 Whoopi Goldberg hosts the 74th Academy Awards. The Kodak Theatre is located in Hollywood, California. Best Picture was won by ''A Beautiful Mind.
• 27 Mar 2002 Passover Massacre: 29 Passover-eaters in Netanya, Israel are killed by a suicide bomber from Palestine.
• 28 Mar 2002 Arab-Israeli Conflict: The summit of the Arab League endorses the plan of Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, for a "land for peace" plan.
• 29 Mar 2002 Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield, its largest military operation since 1967 Six-Day War, in response to the Passover massacre.
• 30 Mar 2002 Conflict between Israel and Palestine: A suicide bomber detonates in My Coffee Shop, Tel Aviv's cafe, killing 32 people.
• 31 Mar 2002 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli troops engage in gunfire with Yasir Arafat guards in Ramallah. Shadi Tubasi (a refugee from Jenin) is the suicide bomber who kills 14 people and injures more than 40 others in Haifa. Later, four people were injured in an attack by a suicide bomber in Efrat. One of them was critically. According to the Associated Press 1262 Palestinians have been killed in the last 18 months and 401 Israelis.

Famous Birthday

• Homer Lafoon

  American noted family, the 7 lb.

• Avery Morrison

  YouTube Star.

• Jacob Hopkins

  TV Actor.

• Lucas Triana

  Dancer.

• Lexi Walker

  Pop Singer.

• Isabelle Allen

  Movie Actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Milton Berle

  American comedian whose most successful medium was TV, which he practically dominated from 1948-1956, gaining the nicknames of "Mr.

• R A Lafferty

  American science fiction writer (Born 1914).

• Jean-Paul Riopelle

  Quebecois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002).

• Hans-Georg Gadamer

  German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Method on hermeneutics.

• Randy Castillo

  American drummer and songwriter (Red Square Black and Mötley Crüe) (d. 2002).

• Cesar Milstein

  Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1927).

• Eileen Farrell

  Willimantic, Connecticut -- Opera soprano (Interrupted Melody).

• Spyros Kyprianou

  Cypriot lawyer and politician 2nd President of Cyprus (d. 2002).

• Bryan Fogarty

  Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2002).

• Anand Bakshi

  Indian poet and songwriter (d. 2002).

• Cherry Wilder

  New Zealand science fiction and fantasy writer (d. 2002).

• Harlan Howard

  American country music songwriter (d. 2002).

• Moturu Udayam

  Indian activist and politician (d. 2002).

• Ben Hollioake

  English cricketer (Born 1977).

• Pat Weaver

  American broadcast executive (Born 1908).

• Rico Yan

  Philippine actor (Born 1975).

• Ugne Karvelis

  Lithuanian writer and translator (Born 1935).

• Margarete Neumann

  German writer and lyrical poet (Born 1917).

• Shirley Ann Russell

  award-winning British costume designer (Born 1935).

• Velibor Vasovic

  Yugoslavian footballer (Born 1939).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ja Rule - Always On Time
2. Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny
3. Nickelback - How You Remind Me
4. Linkin Park - In The End
5. No Doubt - Hey Baby

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Enrique Iglesias - Hero
2. Will Young - Anything Is Possible / Evergreen
3. Pink - Get The Party Started
4. Shakira - Whenever Wherever
5. A1 - Caught In The Middle