In April 2002, under Carlos Ortega's leadership, the CTV declared a national strike, to protest what he felt were the " increasingly dictatorial " policies of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

This was followed for the next three seasons by the world-famous Mariinsky ( Kirov ) Theatre from St. Petersburg, by Covent Garden from London in 1998, the Opéra national du Rhin from Strasbourg in 1999, the New Israeli Opera in 2000, Los Angeles Opera in 2001, the Deutsche Opera am Rhein in 2002, and the Choir and Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in 2003, with a staging of Sergio Ortega's Fulgor y Muerte de Joaquín Murieta, after a libretto by Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

His career achievements include winning the 2000 US Open men's doubles, the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men's singles, and back-to-back Tennis Masters Cup ( now called the ATP World Tour Finals ) titles ( 2001 and 2002 ).

In 2002 he received the Zois award for his achievements in the field of graph theory and algebra ; founding editor of the Ars Mathematica Contemporanea.

Cantona's achievements in the English League were further marked in 2002 when he was made an inaugural inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame.

His academic achievements and his overcoming the challenges of aging were recognized by numerous events and awards such as America's Outstanding Older Worker ( 2002 ), the PBS series The Living Century in the episode " A Teacher and Student for Life ", and the editorial " Phytoremediation's Centenarian " ( International Journal of Phytoremediation, 2002 ), as well as extensive additional press and television coverage both in the United States and abroad.

In 2002, Princess Elizabeth received the first Nuclear Disarmament Forum Award, the Demiurgus Peace International, ( accompanying president Vladimir Putin, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ted Turner and others ) for outstanding achievements in the field of strengthening peace among nations in Zug, Switzerland.

* American Astronautical Society Victor A. Prather Award for space walking achievements ( 1985, 1990, 1999 ), and Flight Achievement Award ( 1992, 1996, 1999, 2002 )

* On 20 December 2002 Frank De Winne was ennobled a viscount in the Belgian nobility as a reward for his space achievements.

Retrieved on 2011-11-07 .</ ref > Her best achievements are three individual gold medals in the short race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships between 2002 and 2004.

Apart from his slalom success in the 2003-2004 World Cup, his other achievements include 2 bronze medals ( combined and slalom ) at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy and a 4th place in the combined event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as " one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema.

He was posthumously awarded the Order of Mapungubwe on the 10 December 2002 for outstanding achievements as a scientist and for co-inventing the CT scanner.

Starting the 1985 – 1986 season 19 seasons without successes in the European Cup-tournaments followed, and from 1986 on also the championships results were declining and declining, with the lowest point in achievements between 1995 and 2002.

In 2002, Alegría received the " Luis Muñoz Marín Medal " in recognition of his life achievements from Puerto Rican Governor Sila Calderón.

The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward science fiction, fantasy, and horror achievements ( the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, awarded by the World Science Fiction Society who reward science fiction and fantasy in various media, is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films ), included the Best Animated Film category for the first time for the 1978 film year only, was revived for the 1982 film year, and still currently reactivated since the 2002 film year.

In honor of her many achievements, in 2002 Syngenta announced creation of the Mary-Dell Chilton Center – a new administrative and conference center which was added to the company's facility in Research Triangle Park, N. C.

On June 15, 2002, she served as the keynote speaker at the commencement ceremony of her alma mater, CSULA, where she received an honorary Doctorate of Law degree and continued to garner praise for her achievements.

* In 2002, upon nomination of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá ’ ís of Germany, the Foundation Samii-Housseinpur, Belgium, awarded Peseschkian in the category of science ( in recognition of his achievements ).

He was recognised for his achievements at Essendon in 2002 when he was ranked the 22nd greatest player ever to play for the club in the " Champions of Essendon " list.

Collison's # 4 jersey was retired by the Kansas Jayhawks at halftime of a 2004 game between Kansas and Michigan State University, in recognition of his achievements ( 2002 – 03 Player of the Year, consensus First-Team All-America, Big 12 Player of the Year ).

The Guernsey Post Office issued a set of commemorative stamps in 2002 which celebrate his achievements.

The Junior Chamber International recognized Zuokas for his administrative achievements by naming him one of the " Ten Outstanding Young Persons in the World " in 2002.

In 2002, Bakhtiar received the Iranian American Republican Council Achievement Award in recognition of outstanding achievements, excellence and accomplishments within the Iranian American community.

It is still recovering from the Angolan Civil War that plagued Angola from independence in 1975 until 2002.

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

Since 2002 the Victorian Industry has seen a significant decline in catches, with the total allowable catch ( TAC ) reduced from 1440 tonnes to 787 tonnes for the 2011 / 12 fishing year.

* Free access to all issues of the Annales from 1929 to 2002.

In 2002, Vick set many records and supplied the media with numerous highlights for the season, including rushing for 173 yards in an overtime win at Minnesota, the highest single-game rushing total for an NFL quarterback ever ( Vick's footwear from this game are currently enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame ).

* 2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.

* 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

She notably spoke of her support for its reintroduction for the worst cases of murder in the aftermath of the murder of two 10-year-old girls from Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002.

Johnson & Johnson gave more than $ 700, 000 to a research center that was headed by Biederman from 2002 to 2005, where research was conducted, in part, on Risperdal, the company's antipsychotic drug.

* CNN A short article on the U. S. policy banning political assassination since 1976 from CNN. com / Law Center, November 4, 2002.

Signed in 1972, it was in force for the next 30 years until the US unilaterally withdrew from it in June 2002.

* Tanner, Stephen ( 2002 ) Afghanistan: a military history from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Taliban Da Capo Press, New York, ISBN 0-306-81164-2, also available from NetLibrary

Some artists from elsewhere in New York City have begun to converge on the area, and housing prices have nearly quadrupled in the area since 2002.

Botswana, like many nations in southern Africa, suffers from a high AIDS infection rates, estimated in a 2002 UN report to be 38. 8 % for adults.

He was the head of AT & T Lab's Large-scale Programming Research department, from its creation until late 2002.

In 2002, the general convention of the Pentecostal Church of God came to a consensus to change the title of their overseer from General Superintendent to Bishop.

Pacis ® BCG, made from the Montréal ( Institut Armand-Frappier ) strain, was first marketed by Urocor in about 2002.

The December 2002 issue of Gear magazine featured a story about technologies and trends that could violate personal privacy moving society closer to a " Big Brother " state and utilised a recreation of the movie poster from the film version of 1984 created by Dallmeierart. com.

In the 2002 – 3 operating year, franchised services provided 976 million journeys totalling 24. 7 billion passenger miles of travel, an increase over 1986 – 7 of 32 % in journeys ( from 738 million ) and 29 % in passenger-miles ( from 30. 8 billion ).

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

Upon return the air in the area was still filled with toxic smoke from the World Trade Center fires that persisted until January 2002.

It can be heard in the gun show scene from the 2002 film Showtime, and in the film Jesus ' Son, in a scene that features a hitch-hiking Jack Black.