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January 5 – Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a building in Tampa, Florida, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack. January 6 – The Boston Globe publishes a story detailing the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal .
2002 was the second hottest year on record, exceeded only by 1998. [31] There was below average precipitation in 2002, with droughts in Australia, northern China, India, and western United States. [31] Heavy rains in late 2002 caused significant flooding in eastern Asia [31] and in central Europe.
The ICC will therefore come into force on 1 July 2002. More than half a million people march on the streets of Caracas protesting against the Venezuelan government. An empty American Airlines jet parked outside a hangar at Los Angeles International Airport trolls through a fence before coming to a stop on a service road.
February 4 – President Bush presents Congress with a wartime budget of $2.1 trillion, which sees a return to deficit spending by the federal government. [7]February 7 – President Bush signs the "Humane Treatment of Taliban and al Qaeda Detainees" memorandum, reversing American's commitments to parts of the Geneva Convention.
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Gulbarg Society massacre : During the 2002 Gujarat riots, a mob attacked the Gulbarg Society, a lower middle-class Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad. Most of the houses were burnt, and at least 35 victims including a former Congress , Member of Parliament , Ehsan Jafri , were burnt alive, while 31 others went missing after the ...