Historical Events for April 2002
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Results 1 - 18 of 18
1st - 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome Atlanta
1st - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.
2nd - Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.
4th - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
9th - The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey.
11th - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
11th - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez takes place.
12th - Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup against Hugo Chávez.
12th - Palestinian suicide bomber (female) kills 7 and injures 104 (among them 9 Arabs) at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.
13th - Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office.
14th - Tiger Woods becomes the third golfer to win The Masters in two consecutive years
14th - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
15th - An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
17th - Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two United States Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War.
26th - Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt,Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
27th - The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
29th - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
30th - A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for another five years.
