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A timeline of events in the news for July, 2002.

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Table of contents
1 July 31, 2002
2 July 30, 2002
3 July 29, 2002
4 July 28, 2002
5 July 27, 2002
6 July 25, 2002
7 July 24, 2002
8 July 23, 2002
9 July 22, 2002
10 July 18, 2002
11 July 15, 2002
12 July 14, 2002
13 July 10, 2002
14 July 9, 2002
15 July 8, 2002
16 July 5, 2002
17 July 2, 2002

July 31, 2002

July 30, 2002

July 29, 2002

July 28, 2002

July 27, 2002

  • A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter plane crashes into a crowd at an airshow in Lviv in the Ukraine, killing at least 78 people and injuring many more.
  • A series of bomb blasts have rocked the Christian districts of the city of Ambon in Indonesia in what appears to be a continuation of violence between Christian and Muslim inhabitants. Over the past 5 years more than 5000 people have been killed in this conflict.
  • Nine American minerss have been rescued from a mine in Pennsylvania, after frantic drilling by rescuers.
  • The Homeland Security Bill passes the US House of Representatives, in a form that appears to kill Operation TIPS.

July 25, 2002

  • A US proposal to delay adoption of a new United Nations anti-torture pact was defeated 15-29, after which the pact was adopted by the Economic and Social Council. The US cited concerns that, if adopted by the General Assembly, American state prisons and other facilities may become subject to inspection.
  • Open source: Streaming media company RealNetworks has announced that it will support the free software Ogg Vorbis audio compression technology as part of its new open-source initiative. This will provide a mass market for the Vorbis technology, allowing it access to network effects which may make it a serious competitor to Microsoft's closed technologies.

July 24, 2002

July 23, 2002

July 22, 2002

July 18, 2002

July 15, 2002

July 14, 2002

July 10, 2002

  • Michel Brunet, a paleontologist at the University of Poitier, France, announced in the journal Nature that a 7 million-year-old skull found in the desert of Chad is the earliest hominid fossil ever found. But he was immediately met by a firestorm of criticism from other scientists who claim that it is merely the skull of a female gorilla.

July 9, 2002

July 8, 2002

July 5, 2002

July 2, 2002