About the day » Saturday August 10, 2002Calender converter

• britt van rijswijck, helden-beringe

• Catharina Vervest (83), Veldhoven
• Arthie E. James (86), Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia
• Cornelis│Kees Kievit (47), Zoetermeer
• Anna Poelsma (74), Leeuwarden
• Charles Joseph Peterson, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah
• Clara Alberdina Johanna Bunskoek (70), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Dennis Peter Van't Zelfde (59), Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Christiaan Davidse (88), Middelburg
• Alistair Edward Brown (73)
• Antonius akkermans (80), Breda, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

• 1991 » Marcus Foligno, American-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 » Chanel Simmonds, South African tennis player
• 1992 » Go Ah-sung, South Korean actress
• 1992 » Oliver Rowland, English race car driver
• 1993 » Andre Drummond, American basketball player
• 1993 » Shin Hye-jeong, South Korean singer
• 1993 » Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor, dancer, model, singer, and idol
• 1994 » Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
• 1996 » Lauren Tait, Scottish netball player
• 1997 » Kylie Jenner, American television personality and model

• 1997 » Conlon Nancarrow, American-Mexican pianist and composer (b. 1912)
• 1997 » Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director and screenwriter (b. 1953)
• 1999 » Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian historian, scholar, and critic (b. 1899)
• 1999 » Jennifer Paterson, English chef and television presenter (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician (b. 1926)
• 2002 » Michael Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
• 2007 » Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1925)
• 2007 » James E. Faust, American lawyer and religious leader (b. 1920)

• 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.
• February 1 » Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
• March 4 » Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
• March 27 » Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured.
• May 1 » OpenOffice.org released version 1.0, the first stable version of the software.
• June 29 » Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
• 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.

The temperature on August 10, 2002 was between 14.3 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.