January 2002 Totally Explained

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Events

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Timeline of the War in Afghanistan (January 2002)

January 1, 2002

Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in 12 member states of the European Union.

January 2, 2002

Sci Fi Channel's programming block of daily marathons, S.C.I.F.I. World, ends.

January 3, 2002

Beer brewer Freddy Heineken (grandson of the brewery's founder) died in his home at the age of 78.

January 4, 2002

U.S. officials announce they've custody of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi.

The Israeli Army seizes the Karine A on the Red Sea, claiming the arms on the ship were bound for the Palestinian Authority.

Tom Daschle accuses President Bush and the Republicans of having caused the "most dramatic fiscal deterioration in our nation's history."

The United States Department of Labor announces that the United States unemployment rate rose to 5.8% in December.

U2, India.Arie, and Alicia Keys lead the nominations for the 44th Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

The movies Impostor, Eisenstein, Black Hawk Down, and Gosford Park are released in the U.S.

January 8, 2002

Fast-food restaurant chain Wendy's founder Dave Thomas dies at 69.

Ozzie Smith is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

Michael Jordan's wife files for divorce.

Speed skating: world championships sprint, Hamar, Norway. Katriona Lemay-Doan of Canada wins in the women's event (2. Andrea Nuyt, Neth., 3. Anzhela Kotyuaga, Bel.), Jeremy Wotherspoon, also of Canada becomes the champion in the men's competition (2. Casey Fitzrandolph, USA, 3. Michael Ireland, Can.).

January 23, 2002

Kenneth Lay, CEO of the bankrupt Enron Corporation, resigns.

January 24, 2002

Enron hearings begin.

Terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearing begins.

January 29, 2002

George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union Address to Congress.

Topics in the news in January 2002

Geography:

Re airport security bill: Reagan National Airport
Re germ warfare: Iraq - North Korea

Law: anti-terrorism legislation

Organizations, governmental and professional: Air Transport Association - American Automobile Association - House of Lords - United States Department of Transportation

People: Yasser Arafat - Caroline Dickinson - Saddam Hussein - Shimon Peres - Colin Powell - Condoleezza Rice - Nabil Shaath - Ariel Sharon

Concepts:

Military and defense: biological weapons program - sniffer dogs - weapons of mass destruction - x-ray searching
Other: airline baggage - bounty - bounty hunter - sniffer dog - x-ray searching

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