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August 31, 2002

On August 31, 2002, typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, made landfall, killing at least 236 people. The year's #1 song was "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback. Jake Fraser-McGurk, Karl Hein, Sadie Sink would arrive in the same year.

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2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2002nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 2nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2000s decade.

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What happened

On August 31, 2002

  1. 2002 Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, made landfall, killing at least 236 people.

    Pacific typhoon in 2002

    Typhoon Rusa was a deadly and destructive typhoon that severely affected South Korea in 2002. The twenty-first tropical depression, the fifteenth named storm, and the tenth typhoon of the 2002 Pacific typhoon season, Rusa developed on August 22 from a monsoon trough in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, to the southeast of Japan. For several days, Rusa moved northwestward, eventually intensifying into a powerful typhoon.

Farewells

Died on August 31, 2002

Lionel Hampton American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader (1908–2002)
Farhad Mehrad Iranian singer and guitarist (1944–2002)
George Porter British chemist (1920–2002)

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Others born in 2002

Jake Fraser-McGurk 2002– Australian cricketer
Karl Hein 2002– Estonian footballer
Sadie Sink 2002– American actress
Loren Gray 2002– American singer and internet personality
Emma Myers 2002– American actress
Anthony Elanga 2002– Swedish footballer

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