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==Events==
*January 10 - [[Arnoldo Alemán]]'s term as President of Nicaragua ends.
*January 18 - End of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
*February 8 - End of the [[Algerian Civil War]].
*February 22 - [[UNITA]] leader [[Jonas Savimbi]] is killed by [[MPLA]] forces during a shootout in Lucusse, Moxico Province.
*March 20 - The [[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]] organization perpetrates a [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bombing]] on an Egged bus which was passing through Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel, killing 7 people and injuring 27 others.
*March 27 - Nantere Massacre: [[Richard Durn]] kills 8 people and injures 30 others in the town hall in Nantere, France. He was apprehended the same day but committed suicide while in police custody the following day.
*March 27 - [[Hamas]] perpetrates a [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bombing]] at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel, killing 30 people and injuring 140.
*March 29 to May 10 - Israel conducts Operation Defensive Shield in the Palestinian territories, ordered by Prime Minister [[Ariel Sharon]].
*April 4 - End of the Angolan Civil War.
*April 11 - A shootout takes place between the Caracas Metropolitan Police and government forces at the Llaguno Overpass in Caracas, Venezuela. 19 people are killed and 127 are injured. The shootout was a response to a failed ''coup d'état'' that resulted in [[Hugo Chávez]] being briefly deposed as President of Venezuela.
*April 26 - The Erfut school massacre takes place when former student [[Robert Steinhäuser]] kills 16 people before committing suicide at Gutenberg Gymnasium secondary school in Erfut, Germany.
*April 27 - River Run Riot: A brawl breaks out between [[Mongols Motorcycle Club|Mongols]] and [[Hell's Angels]] at Harrah's Casino in Laughlin, Nevada. Three die and at least a dozen are injured.
*May 2 - [[FARC]] attacks the town of Bellavista in Bojayá Municipality, Chocó Department, Colombia in an attempt to take control of the Atrato River region from the [[United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia]]. 119 people are killed in the attack.
*May 27 - [[Viktor Orbán]]'s first term as Prime Minister of Hungary comes to an end.
*June 5 - [[Brian David Mitchell]] and his wife [[Wanda Barzee]] [[Kidnapping|kidnap]] 14-year old Elizabeth Smart from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah.
*June 7 - [[Michael Skakel]] is found guilty of the 1975 [[murder]] of Martha Moxley and is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
*June 29 - [[Robert William Fisher]] is placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
*July 24 - [[Carla Harris]] murders her husband David Lynn Harris by running him over with her car.
*August 4 - [[Ian Huntley|Soham murders]]
*August 23 - 21-year-old Michelle Knight is [[Kidnapping|kidnapped]] by [[Ariel Castro]] after leaving her cousin's house in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.
*October 2 to 24 - The Beltway sniper attacks: [[John Allen Muhammed]] and [[Lee Boyd Malvo]] kill a total of 17 people in a series of sniper shootings in Washington D.C.
*October 4 - Trans woman Gwen Araujo is killed by four men in a [[Transphobia|transphobic]] [[hate crime]].
*October 12 - The [[2002 Bali bombings]] take place, leaving 202 people dead excluding the bombers and 209 injured.  Islamic terrorist group [[Jemaah Islamiyah]] claimed responsibity for the bombing.
*November 15 - [[Hu Jintao]] is named General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of China]] following the retirement of [[Jiang Zemin]].
*December - [[David Duke]] is convicted of felony fraud and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment.
*December 30 - [[Daniel arap Moi]] steps down as President of Kenya.
*Unknown - The [[American College of Pediatricians]] is founded.

== Births ==

=== Villains births ===
* March 3 - [[Gabe Parker]]
* March 12 - [[Abdoullakh Anzorov]]
* May 7 - [[Aaron Campbell]]
* May 16 - [[Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier|Morgan Geyser]]
* May 18 - [[Jake Martin]]
* September 8 - [[Jesse Osborne]]
* October 14 - [[Ezekiel Kelly]]
*Unknown - [[Kirill Volsky]]

=== Victims births ===
* January 23 - Jessica Ridgeway
*February 4 - Nathaniel Craver
*February 6 - Ellie Gould
*February 21 - Karli Smith
*February 25 - Hannah Hart
*March 10 - Olivia Anderson
*March 15 -  Lydia  Schatz
*March 21 - Megan Hurley
*March 31 - Jack Sykes
*April 3 - Aliahna Lemmon
*April 11 - Rebecca Riley
*April 12 - Ella Bennett
*April 18 - Isabella Nardoni
*May 3 - Nicole Lovell
*June 2 - Jazzmen Montgomery
*June 12 - Alianna DeFreeze
* June 26 - Tamir Rice 
*July 14 - Emily Tuck
* July 18 - Zachary Turner
*July 20 - Aiyana Jones
*August 11 - Ngatikaura Ngati
*August 26 - Kristal Bayron-Nieves
*September 6 - Kayla Garcia
*September 6 - Gavin McFarland
*September 9 - Rylee Goodrich
*September 11 - Alyssa Morgan
*September 23 - Cordon Schoenborn
*September 24 - Tylee Ryan
* October 4 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Ivan_Krapivin Ivan Krapivin]
*October 24 - Devonte Hart
* October 25 - Luke Hoyer and Jion Broomfield 
*November 5 - Atcel Olmedo
*November 11 - Lesandro Guzman-Feliz
*November 27 - Kyron Gorman
* November 9 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Wang Peter Wang]
* December 27 - Liberty German
*December 28 - Kelsey Smith-Briggs
*Unknown - Kristina Khamrayeva
*Unknown - Genesis Cornejo-Alvarado
*Unknown - Helen Miller

==Deaths==

=== Villains deaths ===
*January 24 - [[Elie Hobeika]]
*February 22 - [[Jonas Savimbi]]
*March 28 - [[Richard Durn]]
*March 30 - [[John Brennan Crutchley]]
*April 26 - [[Robert Steinhäuser]]
*May 5 - [[Hugo Banzer]]
*May 28 - [[David Parker Ray]] & [[Napoleon Beazley]]
*June 10 - [[Maury Travis]] & [[John Gotti]]
*July 22 - [[Chuck Traynor]]
*July 23 - [[William Luther Pierce]]
*September 21 - [[Angelo Buono]]
*September 24 - [[Robert Anthony Buell]]
*October 9 - [[Aileen Wuornos]]
*October 24 - [[José Antonio Rodríguez Vega]]
*November 14 - [[Mir Aimal Kasi]]
*November 15 - [[Myra Hindley]]
*November 21 - [[Arturo Guzmán Decena]]
*December 5 - [[Ne Win]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* January 9 - Ashley Pond 
* February 1 - Daniel Pearl
* March 8 - Miranda Gaddis 
* April 10 - Tynisha Ysais
* July 24 - David Lynn Harris
* August 4 - Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman 
* October 4 - Gwen Araujo