Year in a Minute: 2002

BALI BOMBERS INDONESIA FILE

The scene in Kuta Beach following the bombing of two popular bars that killed almost 190 people, including many Australians, in Bali. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins, File) Credit: AAPIMAGE

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 2002.


The inferno that was the Sari nightclub…
88 Australians die in the Bali bombings, sniper stalks Washington.

Anti-Islam politician Pim Fortuyn murdered in the Netherlands.

The Queen mother leaves the palace of life at 101,

From beyond the grave Elvis asked,

A little less conversation a little more action..

But more talk was needed, Riots between Hindus and Muslims kill over a thousand in India’s Gujarat,

Chechen militants attack a Moscow theatre,

And Nigerian Miss World competition riots leave over 100 dead.

“it’s getting hot in here...”

The Mars probe finds signs of large ice deposits,

And the world welcomes it newest sovereign nation East Timor.

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