February 2002

A timeline of events in the news for February, 2002.

See also:

• Afghanistan timeline February 2002

February 27, 2002

• Alicia Keys wins five Grammys.
• Today is the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth.
• "War on Terrorism": The U.S. sends Special Operations Forces to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to help combat guerrilla fighters, though Russia protests.
• Ethnic violence in India: 57 people die in Godhra[?] when a Muslim mob sets fire to a carriage on the Sabarmati Express[?] filled with Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists returning from Ayodhya en route to Ahmedabad. After detaching the burned carriage, the train continues to Vadodara[?], where Hindus beat and stab people leaving the train, killing one. A 17-year-old is later killed in Godhra by police trying to disrupt mobs.

February 26, 2002

• 12 Shiite Muslims are killed in a mosque in Rawalpindi[?], Pakistan.

February 22, 2002

• Chuck Jones, Academy-Award-winning animator, dies at 89.

February 11, 2002

• 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.

February 8, 2002

• The opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, which are held in Salt Lake City.

February 5, 2002

• Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said today that the United States was willing to sign a treaty with Russia on limiting strategic nuclear weapons, indicating a possible shift in administration policy after withdrawing, last December, from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. President George W. Bush and President Vladimir V. Putin are to hold a arms reduction summit meeting in Moscow this May. - Background material: nuclear disarmament, nuclear warfare, nuclear proliferation.

February 3, 2002

• American football: Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots 20, Saint Louis Rams 17 -- one of the most astonishing upsets in Super Bowl history.

February 2, 2002

• Prince Willem-Alexander[?], heir to the Dutch throne, marries Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in Amsterdam.

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