2002 Timeline
September 2002
- September 10: Switzerland generally known for being neutral; became the 190th member of the United Nations.
- September 23: The first public version of Mozilla Firefox was released under the name "Phoenix."
- September 24: Tony Blair tells the United Kingdom Parliament that Saddam Hussein is building an arsenal of Weapons of Mass Destruction and that Hussein is planning on using them.
October 2002
- October 2: The first victims are of the Beltway Sniper Attacks are killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland.
- October 3: As authorities begun searching for the Beltway Sniper, five more people were killed on this day in the Washington DC area.
- October 10: The U.S. House of Representatives vote 296-133 to give George W. Bush authority to use Military force again Iraq.
- October 11: The Beltway Sniper strikes again killing an eighth victim, this time in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
- October 11: Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
- October 11: The U.S. Senate joins the House of Representatives by voting to give George W. Bush authorization to use Military force against Iraq.
- October 12: Terrorist organization Al Qaeda is blamed for a bomb blast that kills over 200 people in Bali, Indonesia.