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Profile of Experimental Graphics Studio, Havana, Cuba; poets and musicians join printmakers to share ideas and inspiration in salon of informal school that has produced prize-winning graphic artists for forty years; photos (L)
Mitsubishi Motors reports profit of 6.6 billion yen ($55 million) and gain 5.6 percent in sales in six months ended Sept 30; company lost 31.5 billion yen during same period in 2001 (S)
Japan Telecom Holdings Co, controlled by Vodafone Group of Britain, reports earnings during six months through September of 43.5 billion yen ($363 million), in contrast to loss of 5.2 billion yen a year earlier; sales rose 4.1 percent (M)
Footlights column; Houston Museum of Fine Arts opens exhibition of Afghanistan art from Bronze Age; homage to Thelonious Monk to be held at Miller Theater; New York Public Library for the Performing Arts opens exhibition focused on theatrical aspects of Charles Dickens's life; American Museum of Natural History presents exhibition on Albert Einstein; photos (S)
Mayor Michael R Bloomberg will announce plans to cut roughly $215 million in education spending cuts when he outlines battery of budget cuts later this week (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 13, 2002, covering November 13, 2002.
Soundtrack
Christina Aguilera
Nirvana
Santana
Rascal Flatts
2002Emma Raducanu, British tennis player[†]
Emma Raducanu is a British professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 10 by the WTA, and is the current British No. 1. Raducanu was the 2021 US Open champion, and the first British woman to win a singles major since Virginia Wade at the 1977 Wimbledon Championships.
2002Giovanni Reyna, American soccer player[†]
Giovanni Alejandro Reyna is an American professional soccer player who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the United States national team.
2002Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1925)[†]
Juan Alberto "Pepe" Schiaffino Villalba was a Uruguayan football player who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. A highly skilful and creative playmaker, at club level, he played for Peñarol in Uruguay, and for AC Milan, and Roma in Italy. At international level, he won the 1950 FIFA World Cup with the Uruguay national team, and also took part at the 1954 FIFA World Cup; he later also represented the Italy national football team.
2002Rishikesh Shaha, Nepalese academic and politician (born 1925)[†]
Rishikesh Shah was a Nepalese writer, politician and human rights activist.
2002Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.[†]
The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of the primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003.
2002During the Prestige oil spill, a storm bursts a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige, which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002, off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.[†]
The Prestige oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker MV Prestige, carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 November, and French, Spanish, and Portuguese governments refused to allow the ship to dock. The vessel subsequently sank on 19 November, about 210 kilometres (130 mi) from the coast of Galicia. It is estimated that it spilled 60,000 tonnes or a volume of 67,000 m3 (17.8 million US gal) of heavy fuel oil.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]