A Palestinian suicide bomber kills twenty nine people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
Tag: 2002
29 January 2002
In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush first uses the Axis of Evil description.
6 June 2002
A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya.
27 January 2002
An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills over 1000 people.
24 October 2002
The police arrest John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, putting an end to the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
23 October 2002
In Moscow, Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater taking approximately 700 hostage.
27 July 2002
The worlds largest air show disaster occurs when a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine resulting in the death of…