2002 Events

This Is the Remix is a remix album by American R&B group Destiny's Child. The album's name is a self explanatory message taken from the first track "No, No, No" Part 2 and is a collection...

This March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Rebif, a form of interferon beta-1a manufactured by Serono, for treatment of relapsing forms of MS. With the addition of R...

With their parents stuck in Time Share Hell, our boys are on their own on the slopes of Aspen, circa 1985. Stan gets challenged to a ski race and must win in order to save the youth cente...

WrestleMania X8 was the eighteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on March 17, 2002 at the SkyDome...

The kids learn that Talk Shows offer special assistance to grossly disfigured people who appear on their show. They immediatly sign Butters up as a guest with a a strange deformity. With ...

"Peanut Butter Jelly Time" was a Flash animation created by Ryan Gancenia Etrata and Kevin Flynn posted onto the Offtopic.com forums in early 2002. On March 21, 2002, a user by the name Y...

Midnight Machine Gun Rhymes and Alibis is the tenth album by rapper, Andre Nickatina, released in conjunction with rapper Equipto. It was released on March 22, 2002 for Fillmoe Coleman Re...

UFC 36: Worlds Collide was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship at the MGM Grand Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on March 22, 2002. The e...

The 74th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2001 and were held on March 24, 2002, for the first time at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg....

Back in 2002 at St. Andrew’s University, Middleton agreed to model a student-made outfit for charity. The “dress” was a piece of sheer black silk that was intended to be a sheer skirt. Th...

In September 1997 Moore underwent quaduruple heart bypass surgery in London, and subsequently suffered four minor strokes. In June 1998, Nicole Rothschild was reported to have told an ...

In April 2001, Berle announced that he was suffering from a cancerous tumor in his colon, but would not undergo surgery. At the time of the announcement, Berle's wife said the tumor was g...

Location: Netanya Attack type: suicide bomber Deaths: 30 Perpetrator(s): Hamas The Passover massacre (also known as the Netanya Bombing or the Park Hotel Passover attack) was a suic...

When the boys learn where veal comes from on a field trip to the local slaughterhouse, they instantly turn into junior eco-terrorists (call Tom Ridge!). After calf-napping all the future ...

Operation Defensive Shield was a large-scale military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, during the course of the Second Intifada. It was the largest military opera...

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is a 2002 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook which follows the character Ryu trying to earn enough money for his sister's kidney transplant and the pa...

The 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball....

Location: Haifa, Israel Attack type: suicide bomber Deaths: 16 Injured: 40+ Perpetrator(s): Hamas The Matza restaurant suicide bombing occurred on March 31, 2002, when a Palestinia...

Benicar controls high blood pressure. It works by blocking the effect of a hormone called angiotensin II. Unopposed, this substance prompts the blood vessels to contract, an action that t...

"Nasty Girl" is a performed song by American girl group Destiny's Child. It was written by Maurizio Bassi, Naimy Hackett, and producers Beyoncé Knowles and Anthony Dent for the band's thi...

The boys will stop at nothing to watch the new Terrance and Phillip movie trailer. Even if it means sitting through thirty minutes of "Russell Crowe: Fightin' 'Round the World." Hey, at l...

On April 19, 2002, Staley's accountants contacted Staley's mother Nancy McCallum and informed her that no money had been withdrawn from the singer's bank account in two weeks. McCallum th...

Hammered is the sixteenth album by the British band Motörhead. Released in 2002, the limited edition of this release included a bonus CD, featuring three tracks and a preview of the Motör...

Cartman, Kyle and Stan have been thinking long and hard about Butters' job as the replacement friend since dear sweet Kenny kicked the bucket. Unfortunately they feel that his attempts as...

The 2002 Masters Tournament was the 66th Masters Tournament played from April 11-14, 2002 at Augusta National Golf Club. Tiger Woods won his third Masters and second consecutive Masters w...

Eleven seconds after the call on the emergency frequency, the second officer reported to the Tower controller that they were on the circle approach. At 11:20:17 the captain took over cont...

"One Mic" is a song by American hip hop rapper Nas, released April 16, 2002 on Columbia Records and distributed through Ill Will Records in the United States. It was issued as the third s...

Identification Parade is the first album by indietronica band The Octopus Project. It was released April 16, 2002 on Peek-A-Boo Records.

"No Such Thing" is the first commercially released single by John Mayer from his first album, 1999's Inside Wants Out. Like many of the songs from Mayer's early musical career, the song w...

Faslodex® (fulvestrant) is an oestrogen receptor antagonist, indicated for the treatment of postmenopausal women with oestrogen receptor-positive, locally advanced or metastatic breast ca...

Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The first installment in the Spider-Man series, the film, directed by Sam Raimi and...

MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 is a live album by American hip hop/soul artist Lauryn Hill. The performance comes from her 2002 MTV Unplugged special recorded on July 21, 2001 at MTV Studios in Ti...

It's official: Duncan captures MVP award By T.A. Badger SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan edged New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd for NBA MVP honors Thursday in the ...

UFC 37: High Impact was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship at the CenturyTel Center in Bossier City, Louisiana on May 10, 2002. The event was seen live ...

Maladroit (pronounced /mælˌəˈdrɔɪt/, meaning either inept or an inept person) is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on May 14, 2002 on Geffen Recor...

Final Fantasy XI, also known as Final Fantasy XI Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Square (later Square Enix) as part of the ...

Final Fantasy XI (ファイナルファンタジーXI Fainaru Fantajī Irebun?), also known as Final Fantasy XI Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Sq...

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is a 2002 space opera film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales. It is the fifth film to be released in the Star War...

Danzig 777: I Luciferi is the seventh album from Danzig. It was released in 2002 on Glenn Danzig's Evilive label and distributed by Spitfire Records. Danzig stated that this album was the...

Roman Polanski, filming in Poland for the first time in 40 years, has made one of the finest films yet about the catastrophe the Nazis visited on Poland and its Jewish population. Adrien ...

China Airlines Flight 611 was a Boeing 747 on a regular scheduled flight from Chiang Kai Shek International Airport in Taoyuan to Chek Lap Kok International Airport in Hong Kong on 25 May...

Remission is the full-length debut album by American heavy metal band Mastodon. It was released on May 28, 2002 via Relapse Records and was re-released on October 21, 2003.

"Uncensored!" was the theme for the 2002 Pride Toronto celebrations. J.P. Hornick and Rachel Aitcheson of the Toronto Women's Bathouse Committee are this year's Grand Marshals, while the...

"Obviously I exaggerated the injury for the guy to be sent off." —Rivaldo

The 2002 Stanley Cup Finals were played from June 4 to June 13 between the Detroit Red Wings and the Carolina Hurricanes, making their first Stanley Cup Final appearance. Detroit defeated...

The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1 is a 2002 album that groups all the songs that Steve Vai made for movies, TV shows and the like.

Shaq, MJ only players to win three straight Finals MVPs EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Shaq got his three-peat, too. Shaquille O'Neal, cementing his reputation as one of the most do...

John Gotti died of throat cancer at 12:45 p.m. on June 10, 2002 at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, where he had been transferred once the ...

American Idol is a reality television competition to find new solo singing talent. Part of the Idol franchise, it was created by Simon Fuller as a spin-off from the British show Pop Idol,...

"Work It Out" is a funk song recorded by American R&B singer–songwriter Beyoncé Knowles for the soundtrack to the 2002 film Austin Powers in Goldmember, in which Knowles starred as Foxxy ...