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Portal:Current events/February 2002

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February 2002 was the second month of that common year. The month, which began on a Friday, ended on a Thursday after 28 days.

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from February 2002.

  • Proclamation by Mayor Martin O'Malley designating February 6, 2002, as "Beverly Lynn Burns Day" in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.
  • New British digital free-to-air television channels CBBC and CBeebies, launch at 6am from the BBC Television centre, London.
  • Palindrome day, at 8:02 pm, on February 20, 2002, the date is read officially as 20:02, 20, 02, 2002, or 2002, 2002, 2002.
  • 12 Shiite Muslims are killed in a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
  • Big riot between Muslims and Hindus.
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References

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  1. ^ Julian Borger. "Bush 'wanted war in 2002'". the Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Compassion Over Killing > Anti-Fur Protest at Neiman Marcus: February 16, 2002". Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  3. ^ "The Gulbarg Society massacre: What happened". NDTV. March 11, 2010.
  4. ^ "Safehouse Of Horrors". Tehelka. 2007-11-03. Archived from the original on 2009-04-29. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
  5. ^ "Apex court SIT submits report on Gulbarg Society massacre". The Hindustan Times. May 14, 2010. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2015.