| January 1, 2002 |
Robert Nardelli is begins serving as Chairman of the Board for The Home Depot |
| January 14, 2002 |
UGA Woman sexually assaulted.
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UGA sexual assault |
| January 19, 2002 |
Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King and his father, "Daddy" King were co-pastors, reopens after the first phase of a restoration project
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Martin Luther King
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| January 23, 2002 |
Levi's Call, a statewide child abduction alert similar to the Amber Alert is implemented. Local law enforcement agencies can place these alerts state-wide through the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. |
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Levi Frady |
| January 31, 2002 |
3 West Georgia baseball players charged with sexual assault
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Woman assaulted in apartment of 3 UWG baseball players |
| January 31, 2002 |
Olga Korbut arrested for shoplifting at a Gwinnett County Publix
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Olga Korbut shoplifting |
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
| February 2, 2002 |
The NFL owners unanimously approve the sale of the Atlanta Falcons to Arthur Blank. Blank, who had co-founded Home Depot and recently retired from his position as co-chairman of the hardware chain store, had earlier reached a preliminary agreement to buy the Falcons from the heirs of Rankin Smith's estate. |
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Atlanta Falcons |
| February 16, 2002 |
Investigators find bodies at Walker County crematorium
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| March 11, 2002 |
H. Rap Brown, former leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was convicted of murdering Fulton County Sheriff Ricky Kinchen as Kinchen and another deputy attempted to serve a warrant.
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| March 22, 2002 |
Former President Jimmy Carter accepts the Ivan Allan Award at Georgia Tech
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Jimmy Carter |
| March 27, 2002 |
President George W. Bush delivers a major speech on Homeland Security at Georgia Tech
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| April 8, 2002 |
Three UGA athletes released on bond in sexual assault case
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UGA sexual assault |
| April 14, 2002 |
Tiger Woods wins his second consecutive and third overall Masters Tournament in Augusta
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Masters Tournament |
| April 16, 2002 |
Erika Greene wins 58 million dollars in the Big Game Georgia Lottery |
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Georgia woman wins multi-state lottery |
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Georgia Lottery |
| April 16, 2002 |
Olga Korbut pays fine rather than go to trial for shoplifting.
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Olga Korbut shoplifting |
| April 19, 2002 |
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Police arrest trucker in Dublin |
| April 20, 2002 |
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Georgia half-back Joe Geri dies in Milledgeville |
| April 23, 2002 |
Change of venue from Dekalb County to Dougherty County for the Derwin Brown murder trial
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Dougherty County, Georgia |
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Derwin Brown murdered |
| April 25, 2002 |
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes killed in a car-crash in La Cieba, Honduras
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TLC |
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Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes |
| April 25, 2002 |
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University of Georgia announces cloning advance |
| April 27, 2002 |
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Senator Zell Miller addresses NRA |
| April 28, 2002 |
Bus crash injures 18 40 miles east of Augusta
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| April 30, 2002 |
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Tornado destroys homes in Gordon County |
| May 1, 2002 |
The Blackjack Bay Blackjack02 fire is spotted in the Okefenokee Swamp. By the time it is brought under control the fire will have destroyed 106,000 acres of the fragile swamp |
| May 3, 2002 |
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes laid to rest in Lithonia, Georgia
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Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes |
| May 7, 2002 |
Two dead in Smyrna construction accident
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Two workers die in Smyrna construction accident |
| May 17, 2002 |
Georgia Lottery introduces Mega-millions, new name for the "Big Game" |
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Georgia Lottery |
| June 11, 2002 |
Life College, Marietta, Georgia, the largest Chiropractic College in the nation, loses its accreditation.
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Marietta, GA |
| June 17, 2002 |
George Bush visits Atlanta, speaking at St. Paul's AME Church.
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| June 27, 2002 |
Cobb County changes Glenn Turner's cause of death from irregular heartbeat to antifreeze poisoning. |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| July 2, 2002 |
Police in Thailand arrest James Sullivan at the exclusive Springfield Beach Resort for conspiring to kill his wife Lita in 1987. A local citizen had seen Sullivan on America's Most Wanted. This date is occasionally listed as July 1, local Atlanta time. |
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James Sullivan and the murder of Lita Sullivan |
| July 10, 2002 |
Dorsey convicted of the murder of Derwin Brown
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Derwin Brown murdered |
| July 25, 2002 |
4 murders on the streets of Savannah make this one of the bloodiest days in recent history
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| July 26, 2002 |
Gone With the Wind memorabilia auction nets Melanie Hamilton's sweater for Marietta Museum
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Marietta, GA |
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Memorabilia auction nets gains for Marietta museum |
| July 27, 2002 |
Savannah unveils a bronze statue on River Street (Rousakis Plaza) commemorating African-Americans who had been forced into slavery and brought to Georgia through the port.
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Slavery in Georgia |
| July 29, 2002 |
Bill Elliott wins the Pennsylvania 500 at the Pocono Speedway
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Bill Elliott |
| July 29, 2002 |
Civil rights pioneer W. W. (Wesley Wallace) Law dies, Savannah
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| August 1, 2002 |
Three men die when a billboard collapses in Snellville
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| August 5, 2002 |
Ben Bernanke is named to fill the unexpired term of a Fed governor |
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Ben Bernanke |
| September 20, 2002 |
Bomb scare forces evacuation of Barnesville.
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Bomb Scare in Barnesville |
| September 21, 2002 |
A man is killed outside an Atlanta area liquor store. This killing will eventually be tied to the Virginia sniper case
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| September 27, 2002 |
General release date for Sweet Home Alabama, starring Reese Witherspoon. Portions of the film were shot in Berry College (Rome), Atlanta, Conyers, Crawfordville, Peachtree City and Starr's Mill, Georgia.
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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Rome, Georgia |
| September 27, 2002 |
Ralph David Abernathy III, is arrested on violation of parole after fellow inmates charged him with theft by deception. Abernathy promised to secure early releases for inmates in exchange for money
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Ralph David Abernathy III |
| September 28, 2002 |
From hip-hop to smooth and sexy, the music of TLC earns them a place at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame
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TLC |
| November 1, 2002 |
Georgia's "Black Widow," Lynn Turner, is indicted on charges she killed her husband Glenn, a Cobb County police officer, in 1995
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Lynn Turner |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| November 2, 2002 |
President George W. Bush visits Georgia to campaign for Saxby Chambliss and Sonny Purdue, urging Republicans to get out the vote on Tuesday, Election Day.
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| November 5, 2002 |
Georgia elects Sonny Perdue as its first Republican governor since 1872
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Sonny Perdue |
| November 7, 2002 |
R&B singer Bobby Brown is arrested in Buckhead on drug charges
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| November 13, 2002 |
William Putnam is executed for the murder of a couple in front of their children 22 years before.
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A killer pays the price |
| November 21, 2002 |
Judge Aubrey Duffey declares a mistrial in the sexual assault trial of two former University of West Georgia baseball players
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Woman assaulted in apartment of 3 UWG baseball players |
| December 4, 2002 |
Whitney Houston admits to Diane Sawyer on the ABC news program "Primetime" that she abused marijuana, cocaine and alcohol. |
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Whitney Houston
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| December 9, 2002 |
Tresury Secretary nominee John Snow announces he will resign his membership to Augusta National because they refuse to admit women.
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| December 10, 2002 |
Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize
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Jimmy Carter |
| December 10, 2002 |
Morris Brown College loses accreditation
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| December 17, 2002 |
Vernon Can Read! published. Vernon Jordan's employer, Robert Maddox, was so impressed with the fact that his chauffeur could read that he told all his friends, hence the title. The book is an accurate look at the difference between life in the North and life in the South for blacks from the 1940's - 1980's.
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Vernon Jordan |
