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Portal:Current events/July 2002

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July 2002 was the seventh month of that common year. The month, which began on a Monday, ended on a Wednesday after 31 days.

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from July 2002.

  • A Russian Tupolev Tu-154 airliner and a Boeing 757 operated by DHL collide at 35,000 ft over Überlingen, due to failure of correct communication from ground-to-air. The 69 people aboard the Tupolev (mainly Russian schoolchildren) and the two pilots of the Boeing are all killed.
  • John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban", pled guilty to two charges, and prosecutors dropped the rest. He will be sentenced in October.
  • England beats India in the first cricket Test match of the series.
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References

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  1. ^ "CNN.com - Mike Hanna: 'Utter devastation' in Gaza City - July 23, 2002". Retrieved 30 December 2015.