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2002
 
   
New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark wins a second term with a landslide victory      
2002
 
    
The US holds suspected al-Qaeda terrorists indefinitely, and without legal rights, in Guantanamo Bay, an American enclave in Cuba    See in Google maps   
2002
 
  
Terrorists detonate bombs in two crowded nightclubs in the Bali resort of Kuta, killing 202 people     
2002
 
    
Chechen terrorists take hostage the entire audience of a Moscow theatre in an atrocity resulting in the death of more than 150 people       
2002
 
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All Saints is converted into a private house See in Google maps   
2002
 
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In spite of a massive military operation, the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden escapes US pursuit in Afghanistan      
2002
 
   
Afghan aristocrat and politician Hamid Karzai heads an interim government in his country      
2002
 
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Mark Edwards builds a working version of a seventeenth-century wooden submarine, by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, which is rowed underwater in the BBC programme Building the Impossible See in Google maps   
Replica of a 17th-century submarine


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2002
 
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The west end of the Barn Church in Kew is redesigned by Keith Murray to accommodate the Darby Room (named after the vicar, Nicholas Darby), a gallery and ancillary facilities for community use See in Google maps   
Wedding reception in Barn Church, Kew


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2003
 
     
Michael Rogers, in a team led by Sileshi Semaw, discovers the world's oldest known chipped stone tool, at Gona in Ethiopia