Post by Joey on Feb 17, 2016 19:44:54 GMT -5
The Road to 2004 | World Events and Political History in 2002
January - Russian President Putin announces increases airstrikes on Tripoli, Libya
January - President Kennedy announces that the United States will join the fight in Libya, approval rating plummets
February - Elizabeth May is elected the new leader of the Canadian Alliance, succeeding Stephen Harper
March - A nuclear device is detonated in Los Angeles, California killing 117,437 people, Saddam Hussein takes credit
March - President Kennedy promises that the victims of this devastating attack on America will be avenged, pledges immediate aid to California
March - Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan condemns Iraq and states that the UN will act swiftly to bring them to justice
March - Prime Minister Chretien states that Canada will provide any aid to the United States that they might need
March - President Putin calls the attacks in America a gross misuse of nuclear technology, promises aid to California
March - Prime Minister Smith calls Hussein's use of a nuclear device a disgusting and vile attack against the United States and pledges to help them with whatever they might need
April - President Kennedy pledges that by the end of 2002, Saddam Hussein will be dead but that the events of 3/11/02 will live in infamy and that the victims will be honored and remembered forever
May - Saddam Hussein calls President Kennedy a coward and promises more attacks on the United States
May - American forces engage in a tense firefight in Kandahar as they repel Iraqi forces
June - Four months after the attack of 3/11, cleanup begins in Los Angeles
July - Barack Obama is elected the first African-American Governor of Illinois
August - Hillary Clinton is shockingly elected the first female Governor of Arkansas after her husband's impeachment 3 years ago
September - Pope Pius XIII reveals that he will make the first ever Papal visit to the United States in 2003, pledges to visit Los Angeles
October - SEAL Team 6 raids Saddam Hussein's compound in Baghdad but finds no sign of him
November - President Kennedy's approval rating drops following the announcement of Saddam Hussein's disappearance
December - The Queen calls 2002 a year of untold horror and suffering and prays that 2003 will bring greater fortune to the world in her annual Christmas message
January - Russian President Putin announces increases airstrikes on Tripoli, Libya
January - President Kennedy announces that the United States will join the fight in Libya, approval rating plummets
February - Elizabeth May is elected the new leader of the Canadian Alliance, succeeding Stephen Harper
March - A nuclear device is detonated in Los Angeles, California killing 117,437 people, Saddam Hussein takes credit
March - President Kennedy promises that the victims of this devastating attack on America will be avenged, pledges immediate aid to California
March - Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan condemns Iraq and states that the UN will act swiftly to bring them to justice
March - Prime Minister Chretien states that Canada will provide any aid to the United States that they might need
March - President Putin calls the attacks in America a gross misuse of nuclear technology, promises aid to California
March - Prime Minister Smith calls Hussein's use of a nuclear device a disgusting and vile attack against the United States and pledges to help them with whatever they might need
April - President Kennedy pledges that by the end of 2002, Saddam Hussein will be dead but that the events of 3/11/02 will live in infamy and that the victims will be honored and remembered forever
May - Saddam Hussein calls President Kennedy a coward and promises more attacks on the United States
May - American forces engage in a tense firefight in Kandahar as they repel Iraqi forces
June - Four months after the attack of 3/11, cleanup begins in Los Angeles
July - Barack Obama is elected the first African-American Governor of Illinois
August - Hillary Clinton is shockingly elected the first female Governor of Arkansas after her husband's impeachment 3 years ago
September - Pope Pius XIII reveals that he will make the first ever Papal visit to the United States in 2003, pledges to visit Los Angeles
October - SEAL Team 6 raids Saddam Hussein's compound in Baghdad but finds no sign of him
November - President Kennedy's approval rating drops following the announcement of Saddam Hussein's disappearance
December - The Queen calls 2002 a year of untold horror and suffering and prays that 2003 will bring greater fortune to the world in her annual Christmas message