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Margaret Booth was an American film editor. In a career lasting seven decades, Booth was most associated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and producer (born 1898)
Erling Persson was the founder of H&M. He got the idea following a post-World War II trip to the United States: he was impressed by the country's efficient, high-volume stores.
Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (born 1917)
Glenn John McQueen was a Canadian supervisor of digital animation and supervising character animator at Pixar and Pacific Data Images.
Glenn McQueen, Canadian-American animator (born 1960)
Jason William Mizell, better known by his stage name Jam Master Jay, was an American musician, record producer and DJ. He was the DJ of the influential hip hop group Run-DMC. Durin…
Jam Master Jay, American rapper and producer (born 1965)
Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz was a Spanish film director and screenwriter, born in Madrid. Bardem was best known for Muerte de un ciclista (1955) which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1…
Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)
The Erfurt school massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 26 April 2002 at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium, a secondary school in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. 19-year-old expelled stu…
An expelled student murdered sixteen people and wounded seven others before committing suicide at the Gutenberg-Gymnasiu
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) is a federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Justice that is responsible for all federal prisons in the country and p…
Police announced that the skeletal remains of Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy, who had been missing for a
A bridge collapse occurred southeast of Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, United States, at 7:45 a.m. on May 26, 2002. Freight barges being transported on the Arkansas River collided with a…
Barges being towed destroyed part of a bridge (aftermath pictured) near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, causing vehicles to fal
The Football Association is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Formed in 1863, it is the olde…
An independent commission appointed by the Football Association voted two-to-one to allow Wimbledon F
An earthquake occurred on 22 June 2002 with the epicenter near the city of Bou'in-Zahra in Iran's Qazvin province. The region is crossed by several major faults and known for destr…
A magnitude-6
On 1 July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided in mid-air over …
Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and DHL Flight 611 collided in mid-air over Überlingen, Germany, killing all 71 people…
The Israel Defense Forces, alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym Tzahal (צה״ל), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service bra…
The Israel Defense Forces bombed the home of Salah Shehade, the leader of the military arm of Hamas, killing him, his…
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas, is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has …
Hamas detonated a bomb at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine students and…
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas, is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has …
Hamas attackers detonated a bomb at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine…
The Second Chechen War took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from Augus…
Second Chechen War: A Russian Mil Mi-26 was brought down by Chechen separatists with a man-portable air-defense system…
Typhoon Rusa was a deadly and destructive typhoon that severely affected South Korea in 2002. The twenty-first tropical depression, the fifteenth named storm, and the tenth typhoon…
Typhoon Rusa made landfall in Goheung as the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, killing at least…
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko renderi…
The first version of the web browser Firefox was released by the Mozilla Organization.
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Islamist jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world…
Al-Qaeda bombed the oil tanker Limburg, causing oil to leak into the Gulf of Aden.
The Myyrmanni bombing took place on October 11, 2002, in Myyrmäki, Vantaa, Finland, in Greater Helsinki, at the Myyrmanni shopping mall. A bomb hidden in a backpack exploded in the…
A bomb exploded in the Myyrmanni shopping center in Helsinki, Finland (aftermath pictured), resulting in seven deaths…
Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer and songwriter. His most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and "Roland the Headless Tho…
After his terminal-cancer diagnosis, Warren Zevon made his last public appearance on the Late Show with David…
George Walker Bush is an American politician, businessman, and former United States Air Force officer who was the 43rd president of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009. Th…
President George W
Mamoru Takuma was a Japanese mass murderer who killed eight children in the Ikeda school massacre in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on 8 June 2001.
Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan
Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in t…
Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa
Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until h…
Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial