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This article covers breaking news and events in October 2002.

Daily events

Thursday 3rd October 2002

Inscription of Tiberinius Celerianus

• London / United Kingdom : An excavation on the site of the Roman Temple precinct in Southwark found the inscription of Tiberinius Celerianus from the 2nd century . It turns out to be the oldest written document that mentions the city of London, namely in the form "Londiniensium" ( German  " the Londoner " ).

Friday 4th October 2002

• Munich / Germany : In the early morning, an oven sets the entire "Glöckle-Wirt" marquee on fire at the Munich Oktoberfest , which is completely destroyed. People are not harmed.

Saturday 5th October 2002

• Alexandria / United States : The American citizen John Walker Lindh , who as armed fighters in the service of religious - fundamentalist Taliban in Afghanistan presented, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
• Riga / Latvia : In the general election , which was founded in 2001 reaches conservative party New Era , the best party result, however, is far below the absolute majority. The Latvian Way party , whose ranks have included four heads of government since 1993 , suffers the greatest losses .

Sunday 6th October 2002

• Brasília / Brazil : The presidential election in Brazil takes place, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the favorite.
• Vatican City : The Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer is canonized by Pope John Paul II .

Monday October 7, 2002

• Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine this year goes to the British John E. Sulston , his compatriot Sydney Brenner , who was born in South Africa in 1927, and the American H. Robert Horvitz "for their discoveries about the genetic control of organ development and programmed cell death " receive.

Tuesday October 8, 2002

• Pasadena / United States : The California Institute of Technology announces the discovery of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar . It is half the size of Pluto , which is considered a planet .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize for Physics will be awarded this year to the American Raymond Davis junior , the Italian- American Riccardo Giacconi and the Japanese Masatoshi Koshiba for their work in the field of astrophysics .

Wednesday October 9, 2002

• Gorleben / Germany : On the night of October 9th to 10th, the most extensive Castor transport to date in Germany rolls over the rails. The action is largely trouble-free.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Swiss Kurt Wüthrich , the American John B. Fenn and the Japanese Kōichi Tanaka will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year . The foundation honors her work in research into macromolecular substances . The American Vernon L. Smith and his compatriot Daniel Kahneman , who was born in Israel in 1934, will receive the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for economics this year for their psychological approach to explaining market developments .

Thursday October 10, 2002

• Stockholm / Sweden : The Hungarian Imre Kertész will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature this year . One of his most famous works is called the novel of a fateless .

Friday October 11, 2002

• Oslo / Norway : The 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, Jimmy Carter , will receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize . The committee wants to recognize him for his reconciliation efforts in the Arab-Israeli wars .
• Vantaa / Finland : Seven people die in a bomb attack on a department store .

Saturday October 12, 2002

Paddy's, a target of the Bali attack

• Kuta / Indonesia : In a terrorist attack of the radical - Islamist organization Jemaah Islamiyah in a tourist area in Kuta on the island of Bali 202 people are killed and at least 200 others injured. Most of the victims are Australians.
• Vienna / Austria : At the 3rd award of the Nestroy Theater Prize , Ulli Maier is recognized as the best actress and Sven-Eric Bechtolf as the best actor.

Sunday October 13, 2002

• Chicago / United States : The British Paula Radcliffe sets a new world record in the women's marathon . In the Chicago Marathon , she completed the 42.195 km in 2 hours 17 minutes 18 seconds, undercutting Catherine Ndereba's record from 2001 by 29 seconds.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .

Saturday 19th October 2002

• Kailua-Kona / United States : Natascha Badmann from Switzerland wins the women's competition in the Ironman Hawaii triathlon for the third time in a row and for the fourth time in her career . In the men's category, American Tim DeBoom wins for the second time in a row .

Monday October 21, 2002

• Düsseldorf / Germany : Wolfgang Clement ( SPD ) resigns as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia after four years . The state parliament will presumably elect its successor next month. The most promising candidate for the office of Prime Minister is currently Clement's party colleague Peer Steinbrück .

Tuesday October 22, 2002

• Berlin / Germany : The members of the Bundestag elect Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) for the second time as Federal Chancellor with 305 out of 603 possible votes . The vote for Schröder is one voice among the number of the government parties SPD and Alliance 90 / The Greens associated elected .
• Paris / France : A court rejects the lawsuit brought by the French League for Human Rights and other organizations against Michel Houellebecq , in which the best-selling writer is accused of “inciting racial hatred and religious violence”. This defamed Islam in the literary magazine Lire .

Wednesday October 23, 2002

• Moscow / Russia : 40 to 50 armed Islamist rebels, who belong to the separatist movement of Chechnya , bring 850 people under their control in the Dubrovka Theater .

Saturday October 26, 2002

• Darmstadt / Germany : The German Academy for Language and Poetry awards the Georg Büchner Prize to the German Wolfgang Hilbig .

Sunday October 27, 2002

• Los Cabos / Mexico : At the 14th Summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Community APEC, the participants pass a security agreement for the APEC region. The long-term goal of the members has been a free trade area since 1989 .
• Oberwiesenthal / Germany : The storm Jeanett sweeps across Germany and claims eleven lives. The damage to property caused by the hurricane, whose top speed is 183 km / h and is measured on the Fichtelberg , amounts to at least 600 million euros according to initial estimates .

See also

• Nekrolog October 2002 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in October
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in October

Web links

Commons : October 2002  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in the Epigraphic Database. In: adw.uni-heidelberg.de . Retrieved July 13, 2017 . 
2. ↑ The Odd Truth, Oct. 11, 2002. In: cbsnews.com . Retrieved on July 14, 2019 : “The plaque was discovered on Oct. 3 " 
3. ↑ Farmhouse as a new Oktoberfest tent. In: merkur.de . April 4, 2009, accessed December 3, 2018 . 
4. ↑ 20 years for US Taliban Lindh. In: faz.net . October 5, 2002, accessed September 3, 2016 . 
5. ^ Final results of the parliamentary elections in Latvia. In: dw.com . October 23, 2002, accessed May 1, 2019 . 
6. ↑ 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In: nobelprize.org . October 7, 2002, accessed December 9, 2016 . 
7. ^ A Cold New World. In: nasa.gov . October 7, 2002, accessed September 16, 2016 . 
8. ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002. In: nobelprize.org . October 8, 2000, accessed November 27, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Castor transport in a pack of twelve - now it's striking 13! In: castor.de, Citizens' Initiative Environmental Protection Lüchow-Dannenberg e. V. November 2002, accessed November 20, 2016 . 
10. ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002. In: nobelprize.org . October 9, 2002, accessed November 20, 2016 . 
11. ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2002. In: nobelprize.org . October 9, 2002, accessed December 11, 2016 . 
12. ^ The 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature. In: nobelprize.org . October 10, 2002, accessed December 19, 2016 . 
13. ^ The Nobel Peace Prize for 2002. In: nobelprize.org . October 11, 2002, accessed December 20, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Peter Scholl-Latour : Fight against Terror - Fight against Islam? 6th edition. Propylaen Verlag , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-549-07162-0 , pp. 21 .
15. ↑ Historical run in the history book. In: faz.net . October 14, 2002, accessed August 6, 2017 . 
16. ^ Friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de : Chinua Achebe ( Memento from March 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ McCormack and Hellriegel lead - DeBoom wins. In: tri-mag.de, spomedis GmbH. September 29, 2018, accessed on July 14, 2019 : "Natascha Badmann celebrates her fourth victory" 
18. ^ Clement resigned as Prime Minister. In: rp-online.de . October 21, 2002, accessed June 10, 2017 . 
19. ↑ List of all elections for chancellor / questions of confidence. In: Wahlrecht.de . Retrieved March 2, 2017 . 
20. ^ French author cleared of race hate. In: bbc.co.uk . October 22, 2002, accessed October 5, 2016 . 
21. ↑ Wolfgang Hilbig. In: deutscheakademie.de . October 26, 2002, accessed August 18, 2019 . 
22. ↑ 2002 Leaders' Declaration. In: apec.org . Accessed July 14, 2019 . 
23. ↑ The intense low "Jeanett" on 27/10/2002. In: wetter-express.de, Marco Puckert. November 5, 2002, accessed September 16, 2016 .