2001... 2002 ... 2003
Who and what was honored in 2002?
Nobel Peace Prize: Jimmy Carter
Nobel Literature Prize: Imre Kertesz
Booker Prize: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Pulitzer Prize in Fiction: Empire Falls by Richard Rosso
Turner Prize: Keith Tyson
Oscar - Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind
Oscar - Best Actor: Denzel Washington
Oscar - Best Actress: Halle Berry
Grammy - Best Record: Walk On by U2
American Music Awards - Best Male Artist: Lenny Kravitz
American Music Awards - Best Female Artist: Janet Jackson
RIAA Top Selling Album: The Eminem Show by Eminem
Top grossing movie: Spiderman
Golden Razzies Award - Worst Picture: Swept Away
World Cup: Brazil
Time Magazine's Women of the Year: Cynthia Cooper, Sherron Watkins and Coleen Rowley
What happened in 2002 ?
January
Euro currency becomes legal tender. Enron (or what remains of it) gets investigated by the US Department of Justice.
February
Salt Lake City hosts the Winter Olympics. Slobodan Milosevic sees his day in court.
March
Operation Anaconda is launched against remnants of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
April
Israeli forces and Palestinian militants confront each other in Bethlehem.
May
East Timor becomes independent and is renamed Timor Leste. Jimmy Carter visits Cuba. Maverick Dutch politican Pym Fortuyn assassinated.
June
Martha Stewart is probed by the US House of Representative's Energy and Commerce Committee. Japan and South Korea jointly host the World Cup.
July
WorldCom files for bankruptcy. Jacques Chirac survives an assassination attempt. John Walker Lindt is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
August
118 Russian soldiers are killed by a Chechen missile attack on their Mi-26 helicopter.
September
950 passengers drown when a ferry sinks off the coast of The Gambia. Switzerland joins the United Nations.
October
Terrorism strikes - 202 people are killed in the Bali Bombings, the French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen and Chechen rebels hold 700 people hostage in Moscow.
November
The United Nations Security Council approves unanimously Resolution 1441 that forces Iraq to disarm its suspected WMD program. Hans Blix arrives in Iraq. Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. Argentina defaults on a US$ 850 million World Bank payment. Several former Warsaw Pact countries join NATO. Islamists start riots at the Miss World contest in Nigeria.
December
Peace accord signed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Who died ?
Dudley Moore, Cyrus Vance, Princess Margaret, , The Queen Mother (Elizabeth), Peggy Lee, Daniel Pearl, Astrid Lindgren, Spike Milligan, Alexander Lebed, Pym Fortuyn, John Gotti, Ann Landers, Abu Nidal, Myra Hindley, General Ne Win, James Colburn, Joe Strumer