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.

In Congress, the neighborhood was part of the district represented by Jerrold Nadler until 2002 redistricting moved it into Charles Rangel's Harlem-based district.

In 2002, redistricting merged Dingell's 16th District with the Washtenaw County and western Wayne County-based 13th District, represented by fellow Democrat Lynn Rivers, whom Dingell also bested in the Democratic primary.

In 2002, Buyer was redistricted into the newly created 4th District, made up of 12 counties in west central Indiana, after the state lost a district in the 2000s round of redistricting.

Inslee defeated former state representative Joe Marine in 2002, taking 55. 6 % of the vote after the district was made more Democratic in the 2000s round of redistricting.

The 2002 legislative elections were conducted under an interim redistricting map following the 2000 census ; a more permanent redistricting map was passed in November 2003 for use through 2010.

* David D. Phelps ( IL-19 ) ( defeated by Republican John Shimkus following 2002 redistricting )

He represented the old District 34B prior to 1992 legislative redistricting, and the old District 32A prior to the 2002 legislative redistricting.

However, as in 2002, Kanjorski swamped Barletta in Lackawanna County, winning by 12, 500 votes ( 20 percent ); he lost the area he had represented prior to the 2000 redistricting by almost 4, 000 votes.

During the 2002 redistricting process, one map had Quinn drawn into a district with a longtime friend, Democrat John LaFalce.

When redistricting after the 2000 Census made the 5th slightly more Democratic, Sessions moved to the new 32nd District ( map ) for the 2002 election.

Davis challenged Hilliard again in 2002 in a district that had been changed significantly by redistricting, adding many white voters in Birmingham and losing its mostly black portion of Montgomery.

In 2002, in the 70th district after redistricting, he defeated Democrat Lawrence Gordon

The last redistricting was enacted on June 22, 2001 for the 2002 elections of the 108th U. S. Congress and 80th IGA.

♦ Kansas Senate: Senate candidates ran in new districts established by the 2002 redistricting.

Kelly served in the Minnesota Senate from 1991 to 2002, representing District 67 ( covering most of Saint Paul's East Side ), and in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991, representing districts 66B and, after redistricting, 67A.

Comparison of U. S. House election results for Texas in 2002 and 2004 after the creation of new boundaries for congressional districts following mid-term redistricting in 2003.

Democrats criticized the 2003 redistricting, citing the lack of precedent for redistricting twice in a decade, considering it had already been done in 2002, and argued that it was being done for purely political gain and was therefore gerrymandering.

In addition, the redistricting sought to protect Hispanic Republican Henry Bonilla ( TX-23 ), who had faced a stiff challenge from conservative Democrat Henry Cuellar in 2002, and to neutralize liberal Democrat Ciro Rodriguez.

Perry's overall poll ratings had plummeted since the 2002 election, plagued by budget woes, battles over school financing reform, and a contentious and controversial redistricting battle.

After redistricting, Jack ran for Michigan's 61st House District in 2002 and defeated Democrat James Houston 57 %- 43 %.

DeLay has since been accused of wrongdoing for using the Federal Aviation Administration to force the Democrats back into session in Texas to vote on the redistricting, as well as for helping fund several Republican candidates for the state legislature in 2002.