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.
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 6 - June 6 June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1513 - The Battle of Novara is fought 1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden 1683 - The Ashmolean Museum opens 1809 - Sweden promulgates the Constitution of 1809 1833 - President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London 1862 - American Civil War: The Union captures Memphis, Tennessee 1912 - eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time. 1918 - World War I: The Battle.
June 7 - June 7 June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries 1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France 1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. See United States Declaration of Independence 1776 - American invaders skirmish with British at Trois Rivières, Quebec. 1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. 1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower.
June 17 - June 17 June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims California for England 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Bunker Hill is fought 1776 - American invasion of Quebec ends 1856 - The United States Republican Party holds its first political convention, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (they will eventually nominate John C. Fremont as their first Presidential candidate) 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor 1903 - Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage 1930 - President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into.
June 27 - June 27 June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 187 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the battle of Poltava 1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec 1893 - Crash of the New York stock market 1905 - Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin 1950 - United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War 1953 - Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France 1954 - World's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow 1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas 1962 -.
June 10 - June 10 June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1610 - The first Dutch colonists settle on Manhattan Island 1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged as a witch 1801 - The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States 1829 - First boat race between Oxford and Cambridge 1846 - Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico. 1854 - The first class graduates from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland 1857 - Canadian Assembly passes bill adopting decimal currency 1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in.
June 12 - June 12 June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1099 - Crusade leaders visit the Mount of Olives, where they meet a hermit who urges them to assault Jerusalem 1381 - Peasants' Revolt, England - rebels arrive at Blackheath 1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam 1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy. 1758.
June 13 - June 13 June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1373 - England and Portugal sign a treaty of alliance which has never been broken 1774 - Rhode Island is the first colony to outlaw the importation of slaves 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England 1966 - The United States Supreme.
June 20 - June 20 June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter. 1756 - English garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. 1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath 1819 - The US vessel Savannah arrives at Liverpool. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail. 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne. 1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial.
June 5 - June 5 June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1741 - Vitus Bering departs Kamchatka to explore Alaska. 1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning) 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers demonstrate publicly their montgolfière (hot air balloon) 1817 - First Great Lakes steamer launched. 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba 1833 - Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage 1837 - Houston, Texas is granted a city charter. 1849 - Signing of the Danish constitution 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont.
June 23 - June 23 June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1713 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada. 1858 - Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. 1887 - Banff National Park, Canada's first, created. 1894 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. 1985 - An Air India Boeing 747 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, South of Ireland killing 329 1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Genesis in North America. Births 1763 - Josephine de.
June 29 - June 29 June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island) 1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. 1850 - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island. 1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire. 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa commences operation. 1922 - France grants 100 hectares at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt.
June 30 - June 30 June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko ends with Polish victory 1908 - Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia 1936 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell published 1956 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collided above Grand Canyon, Arizona killing 128 1971 - Crew of Soyuz 11 spacecraft killed when air supply escapes through faulty valve 1971 - The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, ratified as Ohio became the 38th state to approve it 2002 - May.
June 1 - June 1 June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The government of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed 1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property 1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States. 1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States 1812 - War of 1812: President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United.
June 22 - June 22 June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paulus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. 1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax. 1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France 1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany. 1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, in one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II. 1941 - First Croatian.
June 8 - June 8 June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 452 - Attila the Hun invades Italy 536 - St. Silverius becomes Pope 570 - Islam is founded in Makkah 1776 - American invaders driven back at Trois Rivières 1783 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine 1790 - King's College founded by United Empire Loyalist scholars from what is now Columbia University at Windsor, Nova Scotia 1824 - First patent issued in Canada 1843 - First students enrolled in King's College, later the University.
June 16 - June 16 June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir 1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River 1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French fortress of Louisburg during the War of the Austrian Succession. 1746 - War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of.
June 15 - June 15 June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse 923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed, King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy 1094 - Valencia falls to El Cid 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta 1616 - Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children in Canada, at Tadoussac, Quebec 1389 - Battle of Kosovo: Turks defeat Serbs and Bosnians 1590 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin.
June 14 terrorist attack outside US Consulate in Karachi - June 14 terrorist attack outside US Consulate in Karachi On the morning of June 14 2002, a truck with a fertilizer bomb driven by a suicide driver was detonated outside the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. 12 people were killed and many more injured. All were non-Americans. It led to an increase in security in US bases throughout Pakistan. A group called al Qanoon claimed responsibility for the attack. However, the incident is believed to have been connected with al-Qaeda and the US War on Terror..
