; Assaulting an accredited financial investigator: This section is created by section 453A of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

; Assaulting a person designated or accredited under sections 38 or 39 or 41 or 41A of the Police Reform Act 2002: This offence is created by section 46 ( 1 ) of the Police Reform Act 2002.

* 2002 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created the Barbie doll ( b. 1916 )

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.

Then-Bengals defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau ( who would later be the team's head coach from 2000 – 2002 ) created the zone blitz in the 1980s in response to the West Coast Offense.

Following the World Food Summit, the Alliance was initially created in 2002 as the ‘ International Alliance Against Hunger ( IAAH )’ to strengthen and coordinate national efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

The euro was created in 1999 and replaced all previous currencies in 2002.

In 2002 the renamed BAE Systems resold HK to a group of private investors, who created the German group holding company ( HK Beteiligungs-GmbH ).

In 2002 the Colts moved to the newly created AFC South division ; the two clubs met at the RCA Dome on September 15 where the Dolphins edged the Colts 21-13 after stopping a late Colts drive.

Also in 2002, Digweed created the soundtrack to the film Stark Raving Mad.

In 2002 the British artist Rod Dickinson created The Milgram Re-enactment, an exact reconstruction of parts of the original experiment, including the rooms used, lighting and uniforms.

After the QML's Quake Movie Oscars, dedicated machinima awards did not reappear until the AMAS created the Mackies for its first Machinima Film Festival in 2002.

In September 2002, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory briefly created the first known nuclear critical mass using neptunium in combination with shells of enriched uranium ( U-235 ), discovering that the critical mass of a bare sphere of neptunium-237 " ranges from kilogram weights in the high fifties to low sixties ," showing that it " is about as good a bomb material as U-235.

NUON was created by VM Labs whose assets were sold to Genesis Microchip in April 2002.

Since 2002, the United States military has created military awards and decorations related to Operation Enduring Freedom:

Kool Moe Dee adds, “ in 2002 Eminem created the song that got the first Oscar in Hip-Hop history

An independent regulatory agency for the telecommunications sector – the Agency for Telecommunications and Postal Regulation ( ARTP ) – was created in early 2002.

For eight consecutive years ( 1995 – 2002 ), all films nominated for an Academy Award for Distinguished Achievement in Visual Effects were created on Silicon Graphics computer systems.

# The Kingdom of Lochac was created in 2002 from the Kingdom of the West ( Australia ) and the Kingdom of Caid ( New Zealand ).

A year later, in 2002, Vangelis created the 2002 FIFA World Cup Official Anthem for the 2002 World Cup.

In 2002, Peter Hudson and the crew of Hudzo Design, LLC created " Sisyphish ", a large scale, 3D zoetrope that uses a strobe light to animate human figures swimming on a large rotating disk.

In September 2002, estimated number of 1500-2000 people gathered to demonstrate against the Annual Meetings of IMF and World Bank in the streets of Washington D. c. Protesting groups included the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, the Mobilization for Global Justice.

Since about 2001, territorial defence forces, which as of 2002 number around 150, 000, have been forming, organized into battalions, companies, and platoons spread across Belarus.

Botswana possesses 888 km of gauge railway, by 2002 figures, serving a number of towns and connecting the country to its neighbours.

On the other hand, taking a longer-term view, the number of journeys in 2002 – 3 was lower than for the 1950 – 60 period.

* In 2002, on a UK poll broadcast by the BBC, Chaplin was ranked number 66 on a list of the 100 Greatest Britons.

Disorders of the heart lead to heart disease and cardiovascular disease and they lead to a significant number of deaths: cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and caused 29. 34 % of all deaths in 2002.

The number of attacks against pipelines began declining substantially in 2002.

A number of such NGOs, as well as trade unions, local councils and bar associations formed a World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002.

The journal Pediatrics has reportedly said that the number of cheerleaders suffering from broken bones, concussions, and sprains has increased by over 100 percent between the years of 1990 and 2002, and that in 2001 there were 25, 000 hospital visits reported for cheerleading injuries dealing with the shoulder, ankle, head, and neck.

At the time of their 2002 merger, Compaq and HP were the second and third largest PC manufacturers, so their combination made them number one.

" In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie was placed at number 29.

In 2000 – 2002 Raymond wrote a number of HOWTOs still included in the Linux Documentation Project.

However, by 2002 expenses were once more very high and the number of entries, and sponsors, rapidly dwindled.

The number of Bundestag Deputies was reduced from 656 to 598 beginning in 2002, although under the additional member system, more deputies may be admitted if a party wins more directly elected seats than it would be entitled to under proportional representation.

In March 2002 workers cataloguing archives of diarist John Evelyn at the British Library found a box containing a number of gunpowder samples, including a compressed bar with a note in Evelyn's handwriting stating that it had belonged to Guy Fawkes.

This particular fact was reinforced when TV Guide ranked the series number 10 on its 50 Worst Shows of All Time List in 2002 ... a full 10 years after the last first-run episode aired on May 30, 1992 ( although the entry specifically refers to the Hee Haw Honeys spinoff, not the main show itself ).

* On the 2002 VH1 program 100 Greatest hip hop songs of all time, " Jump Around " was ranked number 63.

From 25 users in July 1994, the number of users grew to 1, 000 by November 1995, 5, 000 by June 1996, 10, 000 by December 1996, 50, 000 by October 1999, 100, 000 in November 2001, and peaked around 142, 000 in April 2002.

The number of servers grew from 2 – 4 when started, peaking at 44 in April 2002.

According to the industry group Craft Yarn Council of America, the number of women knitters in the United States age 25 – 35 increased 150 % in the two years between 2002 and 2004.

Between 2002 and 2004, the average American academic library saw the overall number of transactions decline approximately 2. 2 %.

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

A number of road and airport projects were initiated prior to Mali ’ s hosting of the African Nations Cup football tournament in 2002.

In 2002, Virgin Trains ' new £ 5m high speed Super Voyager train number 221130 was named " Michael Palin " – it carries his name externally and a plaque is located adjacent to the onboard shop with information on Palin and his many journeys.

In 2009, of the 429 Florida manatees recorded dead, 97 were killed by commercial and recreational vessels, which broke the earlier record number of 95 set in 2002.