February 2002: January  February  March  April  May  June  July  August  September  October  November  December Contents 1 Events 1.1 February 2 2002 1.2 February 3 2002 1.3 February 5 2002 1.4 February 6 2002 1.5 February 8 2002 1.6 February 11 2002 1.7 February 16 2002 1.8 February 20 2002 1.9 February 22 2002 1.10 February 26 2002 1.11 February 27 2002 1.12 February 28 2002 2 References Events February 2 2002 Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands heir to the Dutch throne marries Mxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in Amsterdam. February 3 2002 American football: Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots 20 Saint Louis Rams 17one of the most astonishing upsets in Super Bowl history. February 5 2002 Secretary of State Colin L. Powell says that the United States is willing to sign a treaty with Russia on limiting strategic nuclear weapons indicating a possible shift in administration policy after withdrawing last December from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. President George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin are set to hold an arms reduction summit meeting in Moscow in May.  Background material: nuclear disarmament nuclear warfare nuclear proliferation. February 6 2002 Proclamation by Mayor Martin O'Malley designating February 6 2002 as "Beverly Lynn Burns Day" in Baltimore Maryland. February 8 2002 The opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games which are held in Salt Lake City. February 11 2002 British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links. New British digital free-to-air television channels CBBC and CBeebies launch at 5 pm from the BBC Television centre London. February 16 2002 George W. Bush signs a secret national security council directive establishing the goals and objectives for going to war with Iraq according to the book Rumsfeld's War by Rowan Scarborough.1 275 animal rights activists unite in front of the D.C. Neiman Marcus to demand that the company stop supporting the fur industry.2 George W. Bush's weekly Presidential Radio Address titled Asia Trip discusses foreign relations. February 20 2002 Palindrome Day At 8:02 pm on February 20 2002 the date is read officially as 20:02 20 02 2002. Or 2002 2002 2002. February 22 2002 Chuck Jones Academy-Award-winning animator dies at 89. February 26 2002 12 Shiite Muslims are killed in a mosque in Rawalpindi Pakistan. February 27 2002 Alicia Keys wins five Grammys. Today is the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth. "War on Terrorism": The U.S. sends Special Operations Forces to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to help combat guerrilla fighters though Russia protests. 57 people die in Godhra when a Muslim mob sets fire to a carriage on the Sabarmati Express filled with Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists returning from Ayodhya en route to Ahmedabad. After detaching the burned carriage the train continues to Vadodara where Hindus beat and stab people leaving the train killing one. A 17-year-old is later killed in Godhra by police trying to disrupt mobs. Comedian Spike Milligan dies from liver disease aged 83. February 28 2002 Gulbarg Society massacre : During the 2002 Gujarat riots a mob attacked the Gulbarg Society a lower middle-class Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura Ahmedabad. Most of the houses were burnt and at least 35 victims including a former Congress Member of Parliament Ehsan Jafri were burnt alive while 31 others went missing after the incident later presumed dead bringing the total of the dead to 69.345 References Bush 'wanted war in 2002' The Guardian Compassion Over Killing > Anti-Fur Protest at Neiman Marcus: February 16 2002 "The Gulbarg Society massacre: What happened". NDTV. March 11 2010. http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/the-gulbarg-society-massacre-what-happened-17556.php.  "Safehouse Of Horrors". Tehelka. 2007-11-03. http://www.tehelka.com/storymain35.aspfilenameNe031107safehouseofhorrors.asp&page1.  "Apex court SIT submits report on Gulbarg Society massacre". The Hindustan Times. 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