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- Proclamation by Mayor Martin O'Malley designating February 6, 2002, as "Beverly Lynn Burns Day" in Baltimore, Maryland.
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- British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.
- New British digital free-to-air television channels CBBC and CBeebies, launch at 6am from the BBC Television centre, London.
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- Palindrome day, at 8:02 pm, on February 20, 2002, the date is read officially as 20:02, 20, 02, 2002, or 2002, 2002, 2002.
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- 12 Shiite Muslims are killed in a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
- Big riot between Muslims and Hindus.
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- Gulbarg Society massacre : During the 2002 Gujarat riots, a mob attacked the Gulbarg Society, a lower middle-class Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad. Most of the houses were burnt, and at least 35 victims including a former Congress, Member of Parliament, Ehsan Jafri, were burnt alive, while 31 others went missing after the incident, later presumed dead, bringing the total of the dead to 69.[3][4][5]
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