WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 2002
Find out what all happened July to September 2002

Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. (2. 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 overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000. (26. September 2002)

At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson. (10. July 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 Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide. (20. September 2002)

French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations. (14. July 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)

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

Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing 71. (1. July 2002)

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

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

Timor-Leste joins the United Nations. (27. September 2002)

Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa (26. August 2002)

The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released. (23. September 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)

The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia. (25. September 2002)

Ukraine airshow disaster: a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history. (27. July 2002)

"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. (15. July 2002)