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February 29 is a leap day (or "leap year day")—an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the 60th day of a leap year in both Julian and Gregorian calendars, and 306 days remain until the end of the leap year. It is the last day of February in leap years only.
A calendar date is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "25 January 2025" is ten days after "15 January 2025". The date of a particular event depends on the observed time zone.
The world population on January 1, 2003, was estimated to be 6.272 billion people and increased to 6.353 billion people by January 1, 2004. [2] An estimated 134.0 million births and 52.5 million deaths took place in 2003. [2] The average global life expectancy was 67.1 years, an increase of 0.3 years from 2002. [2]
2002 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2002nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 2nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2000s decade.
May 1 – Nicktoons TV (renamed Nicktoons in 2003, then in 2009) launches in the United States. May 3 – Spider-Man is released in theaters as the first film in the Spider-Man trilogy. May 10 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million ...
January 16 – STS-107: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on what turns out to be its last flight. January 23 – The last signal is received from NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft, some 7.5 billion miles from Earth. January 24 – The newly created United States Department of Homeland Security begins operations.
March 29 is the 88th day of the year ... The last United States combat soldiers leave South ... based on the building having been topped out on 1 July 2003, ...
The 2002–03 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States in operation during that television season covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2002 to August 2003.