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Germany's Munich Re will inject $1.4 billion into its US unit, American Re, to strengthen its capital position (S)
Nassau County Aquatic Center in East Meadow, NY, was built at cost of $30 million for swimming and diving contests in 1998 Goodwill Games, but has been used only sparsely; county officials estimate that it loses $2.3 million annually, and County Executive Thomas R Suozzi says it must cut costs and raise revenue, be privatized or be closed; County Legislature's presiding officer Judith Jacobs hopes to save center by making it profitable; photos (M)
Working Today is company that offers opportunity for freelance, contract and temporary workers in New York to buy health insurance; organizational profile; photos (M)
Six Continents, world's biggest hotel owner, will split its hotel and pub businesses next April (S)
New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon fires manager Bobby Valentine in end-of-season move that seemingly contradicts his past support of manager; contends that he considered firing general manager Steve Phillips as well; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 2, 2002, covering October 2, 2002.
Disturbed
Dixie Chicks
Avril Lavigne
Nelly
Eminem
2002Jacob Sartorius, American social media personality and singer[†]
Rolf Jacob Sartorius is an American social media personality and singer. He rose to fame via social media after posting lip-syncing videos on short-form video application Musical.ly. In 2016, he began releasing music with his debut single "Sweatshirt", which, along with his second single "Hit or Miss", charted on the Hot 100 in the United States and in Canada.
2002Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (born 1911)[†]
Heinz von Foerster was an Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of second-order cybernetics. He was twice a Guggenheim fellow and also was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980. He is well known for his doomsday equation, published in a 1960 issue of Science, predicting that the hyperbolic growth of the Earth's population will result in the instantaneous disappearance of all humans on Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026.
2002The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.[†]
The D.C. sniper attacks were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred over three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, consisting of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. These were preceded by a series of murders and robberies in several states starting in February 2002. Seven people were killed, and seven others were injured in the preliminary shootings, and ten people were killed and three others were critically wounded in the October shootings. In total, the snipers killed 17 people and wounded 10 others in a 10-month span.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]