From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

It became effective as a federal government standard on May 26, 2002 after approval by the Secretary of Commerce.

* 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.

AMI continued to expand after it bought Joe Weider's Weider Publications in 2002.

The U. S. Peace Corps returned to Botswana in August 2002 with a focus on HIV / AIDS-related programs after concluding 30 years of more broadly targeted assistance in 1997.

The 2002 All-Star Game, played in Selig's hometown of Milwaukee, was tied 7-7 after 9 innings, and remained tied after the bottom of the 11th inning.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

Interestingly, even after Southern Cameroons voted in 1961 to leave Nigeria and became a part of Cameroon, Bakassi remained under Calabar administration in Nigeria until ICJ judgement of 2002.

Déby won a flawed 63 % first-round victory in May 2001 presidential elections after legislative elections were postponed until spring 2002.

In 2002, Baldursdottir and his coworkers found that in the hospital, more comatose patients survived after induced hypothermia than patients that remained at normal body temperature.

Soon after that, in May 2002, the former liberal politician of conservative leanings Álvaro Uribe, whose father had been killed by left-wing guerrillas, was sworn in as Colombian president.

There have been several coup attempts since, but he gained firm control of the country after stepping down temporarily and winning a presidential election in 2002.

In 2002, Fox's defense-first philosophy worked well as the Panthers improved to 7 – 9 ( a six-game improvement over the previous year ) and posted the second-best overall defense in the league after having the second-worst the previous season.

It was closed on Sunday, January 20, 2002, a day after the Bears lost in the playoffs.

He made his first appearance in an Indians uniform since he left Cleveland after the 2002 season.

Hampton, after a strong first half in 2001, completely fell apart in 2002, going 7 – 15 with a 6. 15 ERA and demanding a trade following the season.

In 2002, Kieran Roberts was appointed as producer and aimed to re-introduce " gentle storylines and humour ", after deciding that the Street should not try to compete with other soaps.

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

The Moravians had been partners in mission and dialogue since 2002, but joined as a member communion after the October 2006 consultation on Episkope.

In 2002, Barrymore began dating The Strokes ' drummer Fabrizio Moretti, soon after they met at a concert.

The Washington Redskins, after wearing white exclusively in the ' 80s and ' 90s, including the 1982 NFC Championship Game ( having gone 3 – 0 in them during the regular season, during CBS ' pregame show, Jimmy " The Greek " Snyder actually invoked the blue jerseys in picking Dallas to win the game ), have since 2002 occasionally reverted to using their burgundy jerseys for second-half home games, but will still wear white against the Cowboys.

On January 8, 2002, Thomas died at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after a decade-long battle with Neuroendocrine cancer / Carcinoid cancer that had spread to his liver.

Football legend, former FC Bayern President and DFB Vice-President, Franz Beckenbauer, on the other hand, showed his support for Stoiber by letting him join the German national football team on their flight home from Japan after the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

He died in Nuenen on August 6, 2002 after a long struggle with cancer.

The team finished the 2002 season with a 98-64 record and won the NL West Division Title, but were swept out in the NLDS by the St. Louis Cardinals.

Kile and the Cardinals won the game, 7 – 2, and moved into first place in the NL's Central Division, a spot they would hold on to for the rest of the 2002 season.

John Francis " Jack " Buck ( August 21, 1924 – June 18, 2002 ) was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Giants defeated the Atlanta Braves in the first round of the play-offs then met the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2002 National League Championship Series.

He was released by the Arizona Cardinals and signed a one-day contract for one dollar with the Dallas Cowboys — after which he immediately retired as a Cowboy, the team he played for from 1990 to 2002.

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

On 10 January 1994, Pope John Paul II named Sodano Cardinal Bishop of the suburbicarian see of Albano, and on 30 November 2002, exactly twenty-five years after he was first appointed a bishop, he was elected vice-dean of the College of Cardinals in succession to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Dean.

He was appointed as Cardinal-Bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Palestrina in 1986, and as Dean of the College of Cardinals had the additional title of Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia, as the dean traditionally does, from 1993 to 2002 when he retired to move home to Benin ( He relinquished the title of the Ostia see when he retired .).

Over the next nine seasons, however, the Cardinals experienced only one more winning season, going 39-37 in 2002, before their relocation.

Ed Spiezio won two with the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1964 and 1967 ), while Scott won in 2002 with the Anaheim Angels and in 2006 with the Cardinals.

The Red Wings were an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals for 32 years ( 1929 – 1960 ), then spent 42 years ( 1961 – 2002 ) as a farm club of the Baltimore Orioles before changing to the Twins in 2003.

Ordaz played for the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1997 – 1999 ), Kansas City Royals ( 2000 – 2002 ) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays ( 2006 ).

In the 2002 NLDS, Pujols had three hits and three RBIs as the Cardinals swept the Diamondbacks.

He had five hits, one home run, and two RBIs in the 2002 NL Championship Series ( NLCS ), but the Cardinals lost in five games to the San Francisco Giants.

In 2002 he was 4 – 11 with a 4. 44 ERA in 18 games before being traded to the Cardinals for outfielder Coco Crisp.

On July 29, 2002, Philadelphia traded Rolen and Doug Nickle to the St. Louis Cardinals for Plácido Polanco, Mike Timlin, and Bud Smith.

In his first campaign with the Cardinals, in 1996, La Russa clinched the National League's Central Division title ( and also finished National League Runner-Up ), a feat his club repeated in 2000, 2001, 2002 ( his fourth Manager of the Year award ), 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2009 ( the Cardinals also tied for the National League Central crown with the Houston Astros in 2001 ).

In the Giants ' match-up with the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2002 NLCS, Lofton delivered a key hit to help the Giants win their first pennant since 1989.

Richard " Dick " Lane ( April 16, 1927 – January 29, 2002 ) nicknamed " Night Train ", was an American football player, best known as a defensive back for the Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals and Detroit Lions.

After graduating from UCLA, where he played as a catcher, Zeile played for 11 major league teams during his career: the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1989 – 1995 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1995 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1996 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1996 ), Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1997 – 1998 ), Florida Marlins ( 1998 ), Texas Rangers ( 1998 – 1999 ), New York Mets ( 2000 – 2001, 2004 ), Colorado Rockies ( 2002 ), New York Yankees ( 2003 ) and Montreal Expos ( 2003 ).

He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft.

After being drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft, future Cardinals coach Dennis Green said of McCown, " I think he's going to be a great one, when I buy into a quarterback, I really do.