January 2002

Tuesday 01:

The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters into force.

Wednesday 02:

Levy Mwanawasa takes office as the third President of Zambia.

Saturday 05:

Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.

Wednesday 09:

The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.

Sunday 13:

US President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel.

Wednesday 16:

The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.

Thursday 17:

Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.

Friday 18:

A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications.

Saturday 19:

Michael Jordan, formerly of the Washington Wizards, plays his first game in Chicago since rejoining the NBA.

Sunday 20:

Inauguration of Churches Uniting in Christ.

Tuesday 22:

Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in American history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Wednesday 23:

Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and subsequently murdered in Karachi, Pakistan.

Thursday 24:

The United States Department of Justice indicts Robert Nicholas Angleton for conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger.

Friday 25:

2002 - Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka

Sunday 27:

Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.

Monday 28:

An Ecuadoran airline Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.

Tuesday 29:

In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil.

Wednesday 30:

Slobodan Milo?evi? accuses the United Nations war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him.