WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 2002
Find out what all happened August to September 2002

The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000. (26. September 2002)

Soham murders: 10-year-old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. (4. August 2002)

Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa (26. August 2002)

Timor-Leste joins the United Nations. (27. September 2002)

A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering. (20. August 2002)

The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide. (20. September 2002)

Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations. (10. September 2002)

The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released. (23. September 2002)

A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. (19. August 2002)

The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia. (25. September 2002)