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1.2 February

February 3 - Costa Rica: elections for President and Congress
February 8 through February 24 - 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
February 12 - The trial of former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague
February 12 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.
February 13 - Queen Elizabeth II gives former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knighthood.
February 19 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars (planet) using its thermal emission imaging system.
February 20 - In Reqa Al-Gharbiya , Egypt, a fire on a train injures over 65 and kills at least 370
February 22 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines killing all 10 aboard
February 22 - Norwegian-facilitated ceasefire begins in Sri Lanka
February 27 - Ethnic conflict in India: 59 Hindu pilgrims die aboard a train burned by a Muslim mob in Godhra, India, sparking a series of riots, leaving hundreds dead.

1.3 March

March 1 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: In eastern Afghanistan, Operation Anaconda begins.
March 1 - 28 people die in continuing violence in Ahmedabad. Police shoot and kill five while attempting to control rioters.
March 1 - the Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800km above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500kg.
March 1 - Space Shuttle Columbia flies Hubble Space Telescope service mission ( STS-109)
March 1 - Peseta discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€)
March 3 - São Tomé and Príncipe: elections for the legislature
March 6 - France agrees to return the remains of Saartje Baartman to South Africa
March 10 - Colombia: elections for the legislature; Togo: elections for the Parliament
March 12 - In Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison
May 16 - US embezzler Martin Frankel pleads guilty to 24 out of 36 federal charges, including insurance fraud
March 17 - Portugal: elections for the Parliament
March 19 - US Attack on Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 1) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities
March 21 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
March 31 - Ukraine: elections for the Parliament

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