May 2, 2002
(
2002-05-02
)
(Thursday)
- Squatters
celebrated the reappropriation of
Can Masdeu
after a 3-day standoff with the Spanish national police resulting in the one of few successful attempts to resist a squat eviction in recent history.
May 5, 2002
(
2002-05-05
)
(Sunday)
May 6, 2002
(
2002-05-06
)
(Monday)
May 7, 2002
(
2002-05-07
)
(Tuesday)
May 8, 2002
(
2002-05-08
)
(Wednesday)
May 9, 2002
(
2002-05-09
)
(Thursday)
May 10, 2002
(
2002-05-10
)
(Friday)
May 15, 2002
(
2002-05-15
)
(Wednesday)
- Politics of the Netherlands
: General elections for the lower house of parliament were held. The
Lijst Pim Fortuyn
(LPF) was the great winner, the party gained 26 of the 150 seats, a historic achievement for a new party. The CDA (
Christen Democratisch Appel
) led by
Jan Peter Balkenende
became the greatest party (43 seats). The great losers were the coalition parties of the ruling "purple coalition" (
PvdA
, labour party;
VVD
, liberals;
D'66
, leftist liberals). These parties were diminished to half of their former size.
Ad Melkert
(PvdA) resigns as political leader of his party.
May 16, 2002
(
2002-05-16
)
(Thursday)
May 19, 2002
(
2002-05-19
)
(Sunday)
May 20, 2002
(
2002-05-20
)
(Monday)
May 21, 2002
(
2002-05-21
)
(Tuesday)
May 22, 2002
(
2002-05-22
)
(Wednesday)
May 23, 2002
(
2002-05-23
)
(Thursday)
May 24, 2002
(
2002-05-24
)
(Friday)
May 25, 2002
(
2002-05-25
)
(Saturday)
May 26, 2002
(
2002-05-26
)
(Sunday)
May 28, 2002
(
2002-05-28
)
(Tuesday)
May 30, 2002
(
2002-05-30
)
(Thursday)
- Miller Brewing
is acquired from
Philip Morris
by
South African Breweries
for
$3.6 billion
in stock.
- September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
: A wordless
ceremony
at the World Trade Center site marks the end of the
recovery effort
. In the ceremony, which started at
10:29 a.m.
with the tolling of a firemen's bell, a stretcher with an
American flag
, symbolizing the victims whose remains were not recovered or yet identified was carried up the 500-foot ramp to an
FDNY
ambulance, which slowly left the site, as did the flatbed truck carrying the last steel beam to be removed. The ceremony included the playing of
America the Beautiful
by the
NYPD
pipe-and-drum corps, a flyover by five NYPD helicopters, and the playing of taps by a NYPD and FDNY bugler. The ceremony was attended by hundreds of rescue and recovery workers, family members of victims, and New York politicians.
May 31, 2002
(
2002-05-31
)
(Friday)
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