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.

Later, in 2002, when Lott made caustic remarks about Strom Thurmond, Kemp was upset, and he supported Lott's apology, saying he had encouraged him to " repudiate segregation in every manifestation.

He was however dismissed as party leader in February 2002 due to controversial remarks he made in a newspaper interview on immigration-related issues, and instead founded LPF a few days later.

About his last years, Davis ( 2002 ) remarks:

In September 2002, for example, Martin Kramer and Daniel Pipes, two passionately pro-Israel neoconservatives, established a website ( Campus Watch ) that posted dossiers on suspect academics and encouraged students to report remarks or behavior that might be considered hostile to Israel.

In connection with the remarks from 2002, which were recorded on tape with his knowledge, Ahenakew was later convicted in July 2005 of willfully promoting hatred against Jews.

* Dec 16, 2002 CBC News: Aboriginal groups try to distance themselves from anti-Semitic remarks

* Dec 16, 2002 CTV News: Native leader blasted for antisemitic remarks

In September 2002, Kenny was accused of making racist remarks after he used the word " nigger " in a joke relating to Patrice Lumumba, the assassinated first Prime Minister of Congo.

Tanaka was the first female foreign minister of Japan, from April 2001 to January 2002, but was fired from the cabinet after making remarks critical of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

Vines sparked controversy in June 2002 for remarks he made at a Southern Baptist Convention conference that were critical of Islam.

Similarly, in 2002 Senate majority leader Trent Lott had to resign due to his inappropriate racist remarks that were widely discussed in the blogosphere.

In 2002, she was accused of making anti-gay remarks to then Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham, when during a heated exchange, she kept interrupting " Ask your boyfriend " or " How's your boyfriend ?".

Boyd was sacked from TalkSPORT in March 2002 after failing to use the profanity delay to " dump " a caller's remarks that the royal family should be shot.

On October 10, 2002, Senator Biden provided introductory remarks on the bill before the Senate.

On July 13, 2004, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled that the radio station would be shut down because it kept airing offensive and insulting remarks even after being put on probation in 2002.

* Hashem Aghajari, a professor of history who was sentenced to death by the Islamic regime of Iran in 2002 on account of his anti-clerical remarks, but after nationwide demonstrations by Iranian students his life was spared

It is at this time the band started to create small controversy for his remarks on the presentations, as in Peru, González said she was ashamed of the attitudes antiperuanas of his countrymen, or as in the case of the 2002 Teleton, where González pronounced these ironic about companies associated with the event, accusing the campaign using television for his own benefit, making a business of it.