WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 2002
Find out what all happened May to October 2002

An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff, killing 149 people. (4. May 2002)

Soham murders: 10-year-old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. (4. August 2002)

The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom. (10. June 2002)

China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed. (25. May 2002)

Hebrew University of Jerusalem is attacked when a bomb explodes in a cafeteria, killing 9. (31. July 2002)

A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven. (11. October 2002)

The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000. (26. September 2002)

Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage. (23. October 2002)

Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground. (28. July 2002)

Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel. (29. June 2002)

Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. (15. July 2002)

Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US. (13. June 2002)

Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1. (24. July 2002)

Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations. (10. September 2002)

In Washington, D.C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park. (22. May 2002)

A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering. (20. August 2002)

The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. (1. July 2002)

A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al-Qaeda leader. (7. July 2002)

The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. (13. June 2002)

Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. (14. June 2002)