January 2002 - January 2002 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for January, 2002. See also: Afghanistan timeline January 1-16, 2002 Afghanistan timeline January 17-31, 2002 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 January 29, 2002 2 January 24, 2002 3 January 23, 2002 4 January 20, 2002 5 January 8, 2002 6 January 4, 2002 7 January 4, 2002 8 January 3, 2002 9 January 1, 2002 10 Topics in the news in January 2002 11 Background for events in January 2002 January 29, 2002 George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union Address to Congress. January 24, 2002 Enron hearings begin. Terrorist suspect.
June 2002 - June 2002 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for June, 2002. See also: Afghanistan timeline June 2002 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 June 27, 2002 2 June 26, 2002 3 June 22, 2002 4 June 20, 2002 5 June 17, 2002 6 June 15, 2002 7 June 14, 2002 8 June 11, 2002 9 June 10, 2002 10 June 8, 2002 11 June 6, 2002 12 June 5, 2002 June 27, 2002 Accountancy scandals - The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun fraud action against WorldCom. Finance - The Euro approaches parity with the United States dollar. June 26, 2002 Law.
July 2002 - July 2002 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for July, 2002. See also: Afghanistan timeline July 2002 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 July 31, 2002 2 July 30, 2002 3 July 29, 2002 4 July 28, 2002 5 July 27, 2002 6 July 25, 2002 7 July 24, 2002 8 July 23, 2002 9 July 22, 2002 10 July 18, 2002 11 July 15, 2002 12 July 14, 2002 13 July 10, 2002 14 July 9, 2002 15 July 8, 2002 16 July 5, 2002 17 July 2, 2002 July 31, 2002 The Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate.
Kaspar Villiger - of Defence; Federal Military Department (1989 - 1995) Federal Department of Finance (1996 - 2003) He has been president of the Confederation twice in 1995 and 2002. In September 2003, he resigned for December 31, 2003. Predecessor: Elisabeth Kopp Successor: Hans-Rudolf Merz.
Katie Hnida - Hnida (born 1981) is a native of Colorado who, on December 25 of 2002 made history by becoming the first woman ever to play in a NCAA division 1 American football game, when she placed a kick for the University of New Mexico team against UCLA at the Las Vegas Bowl. She was the homecoming queen at Chatfield High School in Littleton, where she was a member of the football team. She tried 5 field goal kicks there and made four, and 87 extra points, making 83. She was a member of the varsity team, and was named one of America's 20 most influential teens by Teen People Magazine. She joined her first NCAA Division I team when she entered the University of Colorado, joining their team as a walk-on freshman..
KANU - British colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002. From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was under a state of emergency arising from the "Mau Mau" rebellion against British colonial rule. During this period, African participation in the political process increased rapidly. The first direct elections for Africans to the Legislative Council took place in 1957. The Kenya African National Union was founded in 1960. The Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) was founded in 1960, to challenge KANU. KADU's aim was to defend the interests of the small minority tribes, such as the Kalenjin to which Moi belonged, against the dominance of the big Luo and Kikuyu tribes that comprised the majority of Kanu's membership (Kenyatta himself being a Kikuyu). KADU pressed for a federal.
Karmen Stavec - Karmen Stavec Karmen Stavec (born December 21, 1973) is a Slovene musician and pop singer. Karmen was born in West Berlin, those days West Germany to Slovene parents. After graduation she came to Domžale, Slovenia, where she joined the dance duo "4 Fun". She also began to study Germanic studies at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Ljubljana. In 1998 she started her own solo career. She has participated three times in Slovene national selection, called "EMA" for the Eurovision song contest in EMA 2001, EMA 2002 and EMA 2003. In 2002 at the EMA she took the 2nd place after the transvestite trio "Sestre" ("The Sisters"), although she got the highest number of points from a Televoting. Finally in 2003 she won, and she represented Slovenia at the Eurovision.
Kaohsiung Incident - China to commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, 1979. It erupted following the police raid of Formosa Magazine, an illegal publication designed to support the end of Kuomintang monopolization of power in Taiwan. The ROC Government Information Office under the leadership of James Soong hoped to chill opposition voices through heavyhanded methods. The protest disintegrated into a brawl as protesters, police and undercover agents collided. The event would be a major turning point for democracy in Taiwan. Soong addressed the public in a speech condemning the protesters, labelling one of the leaders, Shih Ming-teh, "King of Bandits." The incident publicized the oppressive tactics of the KMT regime in ruling Taiwan and the trial of eight leaders of the protest allowed a team of lawyers to publicly question the practices of.
Kai Budde - has reached the same level of fame and accomplishment that Michael Jordan, Pelé, and Garry Kasparov have attained in their respective sports. As of December 2003, he has won five individual Pro Tour titles (no other player has won more than two), and two Team Pro Tour titles (alongside fellow Germans Marco Blume and Dirk Baberowski). Budde also won the 1999 Magic World Championships in Tokyo. His cash winnings in six years of premier Magic: The Gathering tournaments are well over $300,000. He has also been awarded three Player of the Year titles, 1999, 2001 and 2002. In addition to Budde's cash winnings, he also won the 2001 Magic Invitational tournament in Cape Town, and as his prize was given the rare opportunity to design an actual card (the end result.
KDM Sælen (S323) - Norwegian Navy) and served for 25 years as KNM Uthaug before being purchased by Denmark in 1990. Her international call sign is OUCJ. On 4 December 1990, Sælen sank while being towed from Copenhagen to Aarhus. On 17 December, she was raised by the German floating crane Roland and taken to Aarhus for repair. On 10 August 1993, diving approval was issued and the boat was recommissioned. Sælen served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq from May 2002 until June 2003. To speed her return to her homeport of Frederikshavn after 385 days of deployment in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, she was transported on board the heavy-lift ship Grietje. "Sælen" means "seal" in English..
Ken Livingstone - of the GLC, with moderate Labourite Andrew McIntosh (later Lord McIntosh) as leader. The day after the election, Livingstone challenged McIntosh for the leadership, defeating him by 30 votes to 20. The GLC immediately set about reducing the exorbitantly high bus and London Underground fares, subsidised by an increase in real estate taxes; this was dubbed the "Fares Fair" policy. Although the measure was generally popular and led to an increase in the use of public transportation, it was challenged by the Conservative-controlled council of Bromley (which covers a part of London which has no London Underground stations) and struck down by the Law Lords in December of 1981. Despite his defeat in the fares battle, Livingstone would remain a thorn in the Conservatives' side, openly antagonising the Thatcher government by.
Ken Loach - usually credited as Ken Loach) is a British film director. In December 2003, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Birmingham. Filmography Z Cars (1962) TV Series Diary of a Young Man (1964) (TV) 3 Clear Sundays (1965) (TV) Up the Junction (1965) (TV) The End of Arthur's Marriage (1965) (TV) Coming Out Party (1965) (TV) Cathy Come Home (1966) (TV) (as Kenneth Loach) In Two Minds (1967) (TV) Poor Cow (1967) The Golden Vision (1968) (TV) The Big Flame (1969) (TV) Kes (1969) (as Kenneth Loach) The Rank and the File (1971) (TV; part of the Play for Today series) The Save the Children Fund Film (1971) Family Life (1971) After a Lifetime (1971) (TV) A Misfortune (1973) (TV) Days of Hope (1975) (TV mini series) The.
Kenneth Horne - close to Kenneth Williams, who looked on him as a substitute father. He also did some TV advertising and he was in the series Horne A'plenty. He died whilst standing up to make a speech, just after the last series of Round the Horne was completed. Since December 2002, editions of Round the Horne may be heard at 19:30 hrs London time (= GMT during the winter months) each Wednesday on the digital service called BBC Radio 7. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Radio 2 TV 3 External Links 4 References Radio Ack Ack, Beer Beer (1939-44) Much Binding In The Marsh (1947-53) Free and Easy (1953) Twenty Questions (as chairman) Beyond Our Ken (1958-64) Round The Horne (1965-9) TV Horne A'Plenty (1968) External Links Short biography BBC Radio 7 References.
Kenneth Branagh - Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is a versatile British actor and film director. He was born in Belfast and when he was nine his family left Northern Ireland to live in England. Branagh received a honorary doctorate in Literature from Queen's University, Belfast in 1990. He also has been nominated for three Academy Awards. Branagh has worked on both stage and screen. He is probably best known for his popular film adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare, including a 1993 version of Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet in 1996. He starred several times with his then-wife, Emma Thompson, whom he married in 1989 and divorced in 1996. He has starred in a number of other successful films unrelated to Shakespeare. He married again in 2003, to.
Kenyan hotel bombing - Kenyan hotel bombing On November 28, 2002, the Kenyan hotel bombing terrorist attack took place. Three suicide bombers detonated themselves at a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, killing 13 other people, including three Israeli tourists who have been presumed to be the targets of the attack. At the same time two anti-aircraft missiles were fired at an Arkia Boeing 757 airliner, which only narrowly missed. The two attacks are suspected to be connected, and it is suspected that al-Qaeda may be involved in the attacks. 12 people were detained in connection with the hotel bombing, including six Pakistanis and four Somalis, as well as an American and her Spanish husband, both of whom were later released. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for this attack on the Jehad.net website, which since had been taken.
Keiko (orca) - Keiko (orca) Keiko (circa 1976 - December 12, 2003) was an orca which performed in the first of three Free Willy movies. He had been captured near Iceland in 1979 and sold to an Icelandic aquarium. Three years later, he was sold to Marineland in Ontario, where he first started performing for the public and developing skin lesions indicative of poor health. He was then sold to Reino Aventura, an amusement park in Mexico City, in 1985. The publicity from his role in Free Willy led to an effort by Warner Brothers Studio and schoolchildren around the world to find him a better home. Donations from the studio and Craig McCaw led to the establishment of the Free Willy Keiko Foundation in February 1995. With donations from the foundation, the Oregon.
Kevin Millwood - Millwood Kevin Austin Millwood (born December 24, 1974), commonly known as Kevin Millwood, is a baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies. Millwood made his debut as a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves on July 14, 1997. He had is best year in 1999, winning eighteen games and losing seven. He formed a part of the Atlanta Braves' star pitching rotation, which also consisted of Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, which was regarded by many as the best in the National League. In 2002, after having another eighteen-win season, the Braves traded Millwood to the Phillies for the catcher Johnny Estrada, probably in order to cut their payroll in the midst of economic difficulties. In 2003, Millwood fared reasonably with the Phillies, winning fourteen games. In that year, he also pitched a.
Khalil el-Moumni - marry each other. The Europeans stand lower than dogs and pigs". Forty-nine individuals and organizations filed official complaints about his statements on the Nova program, under Dutch anti-discrimination laws. However a drawn-out period of reconciliation followed, involving supporters of el-Moumni, Dutch politicians, homosexuals and religious groups, in which he was gradually moved to apologize. He said that some of the Arabic statements were mistranslated. In December 2001, the justice ministry decided to prosecute him anyway. On April 4, 2002 a court in Rotterdam announced its verdict: although in principle his statements had been discriminatory against homosexuals, they were permitted on grounds of freedom of religious expression, since they were based on the Koran and other holy documents. The justice ministry appealed the decision but lost again on November 18, 2002. See.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - to Islamist organizations in the 1990's and early 2000's, up to his capture. On March 1, 2003, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was reported to have been arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He was previously reported arrested or killed in Pakistan on September 11, 2002. He was close to former Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali. An acronym somewhat widely used for his name is KSM. History He is usually reported to have been born in Kuwait. His parents are said to have come from the Baluchistan province of Pakistan, just like Mohammed's nephew, Ramzi Yousef. Mohammed's date of birth has been variously reported as March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965. He attended Chowan College, a small Baptist school in North Carolina, for a few years (beginning in 1983) before.
Kiefer Sutherland - Kiefer Sutherland Kiefer Sutherland (born December 21, 1966) is an actor. He was born in London, England, but raised in Canada. He is the son of Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas, both actors themselves, and the grandson of Canadian statesman Tommy Douglas. Sutherland is well known for his role as special agent Jack Bauer in U.S. television show 24. He has also appeared in several films. His first major role was in the 1984 Canadian film The Bad Boy, which earned him a Genie award nomination for best actor. Kiefer Sutherland played the role of Dr. Daniel Schreber in Dark City (1998), and the caller in the 2002 film Phone Booth..
