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In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]
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.
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)
Utah Jazz defeats New York Knicks, 108-87; photos (M)
Mayor Plans School Cuts Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will announce plans to cut $215 million in education spending when he outlines budget cuts later this week, city officials said. Some of the cuts already have been put in place. PAGE B1 Netanyahu on Arafat Benjamin Netanyahu told a party convention that if he became prime minister of Israel, his first step would be to expel Yasir Arafat. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took a more qualified stance. PAGE A6
Marian Burros offers annual column on mail order holiday food gifts; much of her shopping is online this year; telephone numbers and Web addresses noted; photos (L)
Commerzbank reports $134 million third-quarter loss, and says it will lay off 450 employees, with thousands of additional job cuts likely later (S)
UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, will retire venerable names of its American and British acquisitions, PaineWebber Group and S G Warburg & Co, and begin conducting all its business worldwide under simple UBS name; reports third-quarter net income of 942 million Swiss francs ($651 million) (M)
Claimants of who have begun to receive payments deriving from $1.25 billion settlement of class action suit in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, suit that was definitive American legal case against Swiss banks on behalf of Holocaust victims for lost or looted Nazi-era accounts, say that process has stirred up recollections of everyday life in Europe before Nazi era; judge in case, Edward R Korman, set up tribunal in Zurich to review claims, and lawyers there sometimes provoke powerful emotions when they call survivors to gather information; Robert Kaufman, 72-year-old New York lawyer who is among first claimant to receive payment this year, comments on memories of being child in Vienna; he lost his grandmother and parents in Holocaust; photos (L)
Analysis: two of most important jobs in dealing with aftermath of corporate scandals--running Securities and Exchange Commission and new Public Company Accounting Oversight Board--await filling in wake of William H Webster's resignation from accounting board; SEC will choose new accounting board's chairman, and that choice may have to await seating of new chairman to replace Harvey L Pitt, who is still in office but announced his resignation last week; when Pres Bush will act, or who will be his choice as SEC chairman, is unknown; new result is that new accounting board, which is supposed to set rules for conducting audits and then judge how well auditing firms live up to their responsibilities, will get off to very slow start (M)