About the day » Thursday June 20, 2002Calender converter

• Annefleur Vermeulen
• Sammie de HOND, Lelystad († 2018)

• Cornelisje van Putten (70), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Gertruda (Anna) SPETGENS SPATGENS (90), (NL/LI)
• Anna Maria Josephina (Josephine) Philippaerts (84), Hasselt, België
• Deane Wallace Stigen (78), Hillsboro, Traill, North Dakota, 58045, Verenigde Staten
• André De Maeyer (79), Hasselt, België
• Beatrice Slagter (80), Zeeland Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Arie van Duijvenbode (81), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje (Nina) Kessler (87), Vinkenveen
• Eeuwke Bouwsma (77), Workum
• Aafje Anna Elisabeth Spaans (71), Schagen

• 1989 » Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor
• 1989 » Javier Pastore, Argentinian footballer
• 1990 » DeQuan Jones, American basketball player
• 1991 » Kalidou Koulibaly, Senegalese footballer
• 1991 » Rick ten Voorde, Dutch footballer
• 1993 » Sead Kolašinac, Bosnian footballer
• 1994 » Leonard Williams, American football player
• 1995 » Caroline Weir, Scottish footballer
• 1996 » Sam Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1997 » Bálint Kopasz, Hungarian sprint canoeist

• 1995 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (b. 1911)
• 1997 » Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Clifton Fadiman, American game show host, author, and critic (b. 1902)
• 2001 » Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano (b. 1900)
• 2002 » Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1905)
• 2002 » Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Jim Bacon, Australian politician, 41st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1950)
• 2005 » Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
• 2005 » Larry Collins, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1929)
• 2010 » Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (b. 1943)

1. Thomas
2. Lucas
3. Daan
4. Lars
5. Ruben
6. Tim
7. David
8. Thijs
9. Jan
10. Jens
11. Tom
12. Niels
13. Robin
14. Luuk
15. Rens
16. Stijn

1. Amber
2. Femke
3. Lisa
4. Emma
5. Anna
6. Sanne
7. Eloise
8. Julia
9. Eva
10. Laura
11. Sarah
12. Isabella
13. Anne
14. Fleur
15. Iris
16. Lotte

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
• January 23 » U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
• February 12 » The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
• March 1 » U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
• July 27 » Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 77 and injuring more than 500 others, making it the deadliest air show disaster in history.
• August 20 » 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.
• December 18 » California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.

The temperature on June 20, 2002 was between 10.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 26.4 mm of rain during 10.9 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.