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On 26 May 2002, DES was finally superseded by the Advanced Encryption Standard ( AES ), following a public competition.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

In May 2000, Andranik Margaryan replaced Aram Sargsyan as Prime Minister.

Gianfranco Fini was notably nominated Deputy Prime Minister after the 2001 general election and was Foreign Minister from November 2004 to May 2006.

* Harold Wilson's Prime Minister's Resignation Honours ( known satirically as the " Lavender List ") gives honours to a number of wealthy businessmen whose principles were considered antipathetic to those held by the Labour party ( May 1976 )

On 25 May 2006, the then British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was photographed by The Mail on Sunday playing croquet at his official residence, Dorneywood.

In May 1997, Prime Minister James joined 14 other Caribbean leaders, and President Clinton, during the first-ever U. S .- regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

The government of Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru hastily cobbled together the legislation to bring the Imperial Household in compliance with the American-written Constitution of Japan that went into effect in May 1947.

Jia Qinglin, chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference ( CPPCC ), was dispatched to Fiji and met Prime Minister Qarase during a brief stopover on 21 – 22 May, a move that Tavola said was not coincidental.

During Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's May 2011 visit to Kabul, it was announced that India's total aid to Afghanistan reached $ 2 billion after a package of $ 500 million was added.

On 6 May 2004, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became the first Turkish leader to visit Greece in fifty years.

Prime Minister Keith Mitchell joined President Bill Clinton, in May 1997, for a meeting with 14 other Caribbean leaders during the first-ever U. S .- regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

However, in May 1927, during a row over clandestine Soviet support for the General Strike and the distribution of subversive propaganda, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made details from the decrypts public.

Brundtland became Norwegian Prime Minister for two subsequent terms: the first was from 9 May 1986 until 16 October 1989.

On 1 May, Taraki became President, Prime Minister and General Secretary of the PDPA.

On 22 May 2004, Manmohan Singh was appointed the Prime Minister of India following the victory of the INC & the left front in the 2004 Lok Sabha election.

Between 17 May 2006 and 21 February 2007 Romano Prodi served as Prime Minister of Italy following the narrow victory of his l ' Unione coalition over the Casa delle Libertà led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections.

Prime Minister Percival James Patterson visited Cuba at the end of May 1997.

At about noon on 2 May 1997, Major officially returned his seals of office as Prime Minister to The Queen.

Jawaharlal Nehru (, 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964 ), often referred to as Panditji, was an Indian politician and statesman, a leader in the Indian Independence Movement, and the first Prime Minister of independent India.

Postwar social and political instability, fueled by economic uncertainty and the collapse of the Lebanese currency, led to the resignation of Prime Minister Omar Karami, also in May 1992, after less than 2 years in office.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his Prime Minister's Questions of 3 May 2006 made a shorthand reference to the types of political groups, " Judean People's Front " or " People's Front of Judea ", lampooned in Life of Brian.

On 26 March 2004, following the decision of the Speaker of the Parliament, Marek Borowski, to found a new dissenting party, the Social Democracy of Poland, Leszek Miller decided to resign from the position of Prime Minister on 2 May 2004, a day after Poland ’ s accession to the EU.

* 1932 – The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d ' état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.

John Malcolm Fraser AC, CH, GCL, PC (; born 21 May 1930 ) is a former Liberal Party politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia.

The last Coalition in the UK before 2010 was led by Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill during most of the Second World War from May 1940 to May 1945.