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January 23, 2002

On January 23, 2002, u.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered. 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 January 23, 2002

  1. 2002 U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.

    American journalist beheaded by militants in Pakistan (1963–2002)

    Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal. On January 23, 2002, he was kidnapped by jihadist militants while he was on his way to what he had expected would be an interview with Pakistani Islamic scholar Mubarak Ali Gilani in Karachi, Pakistan. Pearl had moved to Mumbai, India, upon taking up a regional posting by his newspaper and later entered Pakistan to cover the war on terror, which was launched by the United States in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001.

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Born on January 23, 2002

Joško Gvardiol 2002– Croatian footballer (born 2002)
Nicola Zalewski 2002– Polish footballer (born 2002)

Farewells

Died on January 23, 2002

Paul Aars American racecar driver (1934–2002)
Pierre Bourdieu French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)
Robert Nozick American political philosopher (1938–2002)

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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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