April 2002

Monday 01:

The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the only nation in the world to do so.

Tuesday 02:

Israeli forces surrounded the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem which has around 200 Palestinians inside. A siege ensues.

Monday 08:

Ed McMahon files a US$20 million lawsuit against his insurance company and others regarding a toxic mold infecting McMahon's Beverly Hills, California home.

Tuesday 09:

The funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey.

Friday 12:

Coup d'Etat against Hugo Chávez in Venezuela

Monday 15:

An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into hillside during heavy rain and fog near Pusan, South Korea killing 128.

Wednesday 17:

Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two U.S. Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War.

Thursday 18:

A new order of insects, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.

Saturday 20:

The Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition holds its first Community Smoke-In for Human Rights in Darwin, Australia. Police arrest five activists.

Friday 26:

19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany.

Monday 29:

The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.

Tuesday 30:

2002 - The law N26-?? "On the National Flag of the Udmurt Republic" has appeared.