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

Discussions led to the signing of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty in Moscow on May 24, 2002.

A mixed doubles game – Scottish Schools under 12s tournament, Tranent, May 2002

* Booknotes interview with James Srodes on Franklin: The Essential Founding Father, May 19, 2002.

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

* becoming part of NATO's Membership Action Plan in May 2002

On May 28, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least six months in certain European countries, ( or three months in the United Kingdom ), from 1980 to 1996.

The group became dormant in the following two years, and on May 24, 2002, officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.

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.

The death penalty was removed from peacetime law in August 2002, and in May 2004 Turkey amended its constitution in order to remove capital punishment in all circumstances.

* May, Ernest R. 2002.

The last one occurred in 2002 between May 21 and June 8.

* " A Struggle Within the Chinese Communist Party "— Monthly Review article from May 2002

DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, which subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002.

The company subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002. some of DEC's product lines were still produced under the HP name.

On 26 May 2002, DES was finally superseded by the Advanced Encryption Standard ( AES ), following a public competition.

Production of this model was between May 2001 and October 2002

# Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review — August 19, 2002 to May 25, 2003

On May 7, 2002, the Old Executive Office Building was officially renamed the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

In May 2002, then-Prime Minister, Tony Blair unveiled a statue of Dewar at the top of Glasgow's Buchanan Street — and in keeping with his famous unkempt appearance, it showed Dewar wearing a slightly crushed jacket.

* 2002 – Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.

* Academy Award nomination ( 2002 ) for Best Original Song for " May It Be ".

In the United States, the primary standard for full-featured EVM systems is the ANSI / EIA-748A standard, published in May 1998 and reaffirmed in August 2002.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (; May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002 ) was a Dutch computer scientist.

Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling, Air Pollution – Persistent Organic Pollutants ( signed 2001, ratified 2002 ), Climate Change – Kyoto Protocol ( signed May 1998, ratified together with 14 other EU countries May 31, 2002 ).

After the May 2011 death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, many prominent Afghan figures began being assassinated, including Mohammed Daud Daud, Ahmad Wali Karzai, Jan Mohammad Khan, Ghulam Haider Hamidi, Burhanuddin Rabbani and others.

* May 22 – Exiled leaders Ahmed Abdallah and Mohammed Ahmed return to the Comoros.

* May 19 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister ( d. 1967 )

On 6 May 2012 a suspected US drone strike killed Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso and another al Qaida militant in southern Shabwa province.

May Allah ’ s blessings be upon His best creation Mohammed and all his ( pure ) progeny.

** Lagos ( Murtala Mohammed International Airport ) Service ended May 18, 2008

On 16 May 1980, Masri married Valerie Traverso, a Roman Catholic convert to Islam, and had a son, Mohammed Mustafa Kamel, whom Masri later separated from his mother when the boy was four years old.

On May 28, 1767, Mohammed ben Abdallah ( Sultan of Morocco ) signed a peace and commerce treaty with the Spanish King Charles III, in which he does not guarantee the security of Spanish fishermen in the coasts south of the river Nun, as he recognized he does not have control over the Tekna tribes of that lands ( Art.

* May 3 – Iraq shoots down an aircraft bound for Tehran, Iran, carrying Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ben Yahia and 12 of his colleagues.

( Mohammed ) Marmaduke Pickthall ( 7 April 1875 – 19 May 1936 ) was a Western Islamic scholar, noted for his English translation of the Qur ' an.

Salem bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden () ( 1946 – May 29, 1988 ) was a Saudi Arabian investor and businessman.

Ezzedine Salim, (), also known as Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed ( 1943-17 May 2004, عبدالزهرة عثمان محمد ), was an Iraqi politician, author, educator, Islamist theorist and one of the leading members of the Iraqi Dawaa Movement between 1980 and 2004.

On May 19, 2007, he announced plans to give 10 billion USD to set up the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, an educational foundation in the Middle East.

On 1 May 2004, the United States withdrew from Fallujah, as Lieutenant General James Conway announced that he had unilaterally decided to turn over any remaining operations to the newly-formed Fallujah Brigade, which would be armed with US weapons and equipment under the command of former Ba ' athist Army General Jasim Mohammed Saleh.

On 18 May 2003, U. S. military forces mistakenly released Mohammed Jawad An-Neifus from the Camp Bucca.

On May 26, 2004, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that reports indicated that Mohammed was one of seven al-Qaeda members who were planning a terrorist action for the summer or fall of 2004.

A Canadian citizen, Abderraouf bin Habib bin Yousef Jdey (, ‘ Abd ar-Rawūf Jday ) ( also Farouk al-Tunisi ) ( born May 30, 1965 ) was found swearing to die as a shaheed on a series of videotapes found in the rubble of Mohammed Atef's house in Afghanistan.

Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco (), ( born Salma Bennani ; 10 May 1978 in Fes ) is the princess consort of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and the first wife of a Moroccan ruler to have been publicly acknowledged and given a royal title.

In May 1998, Essam Marzouk and Mohammed Zeki Mahjoub were also introduced to each other at the home of Khadr's in-laws while he was in Toronto.

A Sudanese Karate Black belt master, Hashim Bedreddin Mohammed, attacked al-Turabi by using two knifehand strikes to knock him unconscious into a coma, while al-Turabi was at an Ottawa airport in Canada in 26 May 1992.

The project was unveiled in May 2003 by Sheikh Mohammed and dredging began four months later in September 2003.

Mohammed bin Hammam, who played a key role in securing the games for Qatar, withdrew as a candidate for president of FIFA in May 2011 after being accused of bribing 25 FIFA officials to vote for his candidacy.

The General Council of CITU met on 17 May 2007 and elected Mohammed Amin as its new General Secretary.

Mohammed Abdel Wahab (), also transliterated Mohammed Abd el-Wahaab ( March 13, 1902 – May 4, 1991 ) was a prominent 20th-century Arab Egyptian singer and composer.