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March 2002 was the third month of that common year. The month, which began on a Friday, ended on a Sunday after 31 days.

Portal:Current events

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from March 2002.

March 1, 2002 (2002-03-01) (Friday)
March 2, 2002 (2002-03-02) (Saturday)
March 3, 2002 (2002-03-03) (Sunday)
March 4, 2002 (2002-03-04) (Monday)
  • 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission. Around 3 a.m. local time a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, causing a soldier to fall out and damaging a hydraulic line. The helicopter made an emergency landing a half-mile away. A second helicopter on the mission picked up the first helicopter's crew and flew to where the crew member had fallen. The soldiers soon came under heavy fire, and six were killed. The remaining soldiers returned fire and retrieved the bodies before returning to base.
  • Bubble fusion: Scientific papers for and against the observation of apparent nuclear fusion in imploding bubbles become available online. If this can be repeated, this is an important scientific breakthrough. Other physicists fear that this may be a repeat of the cold fusion fiasco.
March 11, 2002 (2002-03-11) (Monday)
March 12, 2002 (2002-03-12) (Tuesday)
March 19, 2002 (2002-03-19) (Tuesday)
  • The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions calls a three-day general strike protesting police interference with union meetings, harassment of trade unionists, and general lawlessness following the general elections, which has led to slow-downs in business.
  • In South Korea, 5,600 power plant workers are on the 25th day of their strike, protesting the neoliberal government plans to privatize the state-run electricity plants. A vote among the remaining power plant workers to strike is cancelled due to company interference.
March 20, 2002 (2002-03-20) (Wednesday)
March 23, 2002 (2002-03-23) (Saturday)
March 24, 2002 (2002-03-24) (Sunday)
March 27, 2002 (2002-03-27) (Wednesday)
March 28, 2002 (2002-03-28) (Thursday)
March 29, 2002 (2002-03-29) (Friday)
March 30, 2002 (2002-03-30) (Saturday)
March 31, 2002 (2002-03-31) (Sunday)
  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli troops exchange gunfire with guards of Yasir Arafat in Ramallah. A suicide bomber identified as Shadi Tubasi, a resident of the refugee camp Jenin, kills 14 and wounds more than 40 in Haifa. Later, a suicide bomber wounds four members of an intensive-care unit, one critically, in a paramedics' dispatch station in Efrat. In the past 18 months, according to the Associated Press, 1262 people have been killed on the Palestinian side and on 401 on the Israeli side.
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References

  1. ↑ "News". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Philip Willan. "Italian unions call historic strike". the Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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