February 2002

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Contents 1 Events 1.1 February 2, 2002 1.2 February 3, 2002 1.3 February 5, 2002 1.4 February 6, 2002 1.5 February 8, 2002 1.6 February 11, 2002 1.7 February 20, 2002 1.8 February 22, 2002 1.9 February 26, 2002 1.10 February 27, 2002

Events

February 2, 2002

• Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, heir to the Dutch throne, marries Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in Amsterdam.

February 3, 2002

• American football: Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots 20, Saint Louis Rams 17 -- one of the most astonishing upsets in Super Bowl history.

February 5, 2002

• Secretary of State Colin L. Powell says that the United States is willing to sign a treaty with Russia on limiting strategic nuclear weapons, indicating a possible shift in administration policy after withdrawing, last December, from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. President George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin are set to hold an arms reduction summit meeting in Moscow in May. - Background material: nuclear disarmament, nuclear warfare, nuclear proliferation.

February 6, 2002

• Proclamation by Mayor Martin O'Malley designating February 6,2002 as "Beverly Lynn Burns Day" in Baltimore, Maryland.

February 8, 2002

• The opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, which are held in Salt Lake City.

February 11, 2002

• British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.

February 20, 2002

• Palindrome Day, At 8:02 pm, on February 20, 2002, the date is read officially as 20:02, 20, 02, 2002. Or 2002 2002 2002.

February 22, 2002

• Chuck Jones, Academy-Award-winning animator, dies at 89.

February 26, 2002

• 12 Shiite Muslims are killed in a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

February 27, 2002

• Alicia Keys wins five Grammys.
• Today is the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth.
• "War on Terrorism": The U.S. sends Special Operations Forces to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to help combat guerrilla fighters, though Russia protests.
• 57 people die in Godhra when a Muslim mob sets fire to a carriage on the Sabarmati Express filled with Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists returning from Ayodhya en route to Ahmedabad. After detaching the burned carriage, the train continues to Vadodara, where Hindus beat and stab people leaving the train, killing one. A 17-year-old is later killed in Godhra by police trying to disrupt mobs.
• Comedian Spike Milligan dies from liver disease, aged 83.

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