According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

* Markus Weimer, The Peace Dividend: Analysis of a Decade of Angolan Indicators, 2002 – 2012

** Atlas V ( 2002 – Present )

The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

* Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ).

* " The Nobels in Baku " in Azerbaijan International, Vol 10. 2 ( Summer 2002 ), 56 – 59.

* 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.

* 1910 – Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and lyricist ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón

* 1926 – Pat Coombs, English actress ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist ( d. 2002 )

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1952 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer ) ( d. 2002 )

* 1952 – Herb Ritts, American photographer ( d. 2002 )

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

* 2002 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( b. 1947 )

" History and Theory 41, Theme Issue 41 ( December 2002 ), 90 – 103

* 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director ( d. 2002 )

* 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist ( d. 2002 )

In the latter half of 2002 singer / songwriter Teemu Merilä created Lodger as a vehicle for his music, bringing together Jyri Riikonen on keyboards, Hannes Häyhä on bass, Antti Laari on drums, and London-based Richard Anderson on guitar.

The Finnish markka (,, currency code: FIM ) was the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002, when it ceased to be legal tender.

The dual circulation period – when both the Finnish markka and the euro had legal tender status – ended on 28 February 2002.

The Finnish markka was added into the ERM system in 1996 and then became a fraction of the euro in 1999, physical euro money arriving later in 2002.

Following an interview in the monthly supplement of Helsingin Sanomat, Lynn's coauthor Tatu Vanhanen, a political scientist and father of the Prime Minister of Finland Matti Vanhanen, was investigated by the Finnish police between 2002 and 2004.

* 1958 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish model and singer, Miss Finland 1977 ( d. 2002 )

TeliaSonera is the result of a 2002 merger between the Swedish and Finnish telecommunications companies, Telia and Sonera.

* December 18-Antti Koivumäki, Finnish poet and keyboardist ( Aavikko ) ( d. 2002 )

More recently, Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has written an opera about Rudel called L ' amour de loin, with a libretto by Amin Maalouf, which was given its world premiere at the Salzburg Festival in 2000 and its US premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in 2002.

In 2002 director Jari Halonen's movie The Life of Aleksis Kivi ( Finnish title: Aleksis Kiven elämä ) premiered in Finnish cinemas.

Kimi Räikkönen replaced Häkkinen at McLaren-Mercedes in 2002, and has also been referred to as the Flying Finn, although he is better known by his other nickname, The Iceman ( Finnish: Jäämies ).

Euro gold and silver commemorative coins ( Finland )# 2002 coinage | First Finnish gold euro commemorative coin

Lapland itself has been the main motif for a recent commemorative coin, the Finish First Finnish gold euro commemorative coin, minted in 2002.

The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model ( 2002 )

In 2002, the Finnish Food Safety Authority estimated annual consumption of false morels to be hundreds of tonnes in plentiful years.

Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali (), in media previously known as the Cuban-Swede (), is a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba between January 2002 and July 2004.

ry received a Business ID from the Finnish tax authorities ( by own request ) and was entered into the tax prepayment register in May 2002.

Voutilainen participated in the Finnish national preliminary round for Eurovision 2002 with the song " Addicted to You ".

With 46 points awarded by the jury and 36 % of the public vote " Addicted to You " easily won the right to represent Finland at Eurovision 2002: despite heavy promotion-reportedly the most ever afforded a Finnish Eurovision entrant-and high expectations for its Eurovision placing, " Addicted to You " finished Eurovision 2002 in twentieth place out of a field of twenty-four and failed to reach the Finnish Top Ten, stalling at # 11.

Martens also negotiated with Finnish conservative politician Sauli Niinistö the merger of the European Democrat Union ( EDU ) into the EPP ( formally concluded in 2002 ).

a Professional Services Automation application released in 2002 by Nemein, a Finnish Midgard company.