February 3, 2002 (2002-02-03) (Sunday)
February 5, 2002 (2002-02-05) (Tuesday)
February 6, 2002 (2002-02-06) (Wednesday)
- Proclamation by Mayor Martin O'Malley designating February 6, 2002, as "Beverly Lynn Burns Day" in Baltimore, Maryland.
February 8, 2002 (2002-02-08) (Friday)
February 10, 2002 (2002-02-10) (Sunday)
February 11, 2002 (2002-02-11) (Monday)
- British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.
- New British digital free-to-air television channels CBBC and CBeebies, launch at 6am from the BBC Television centre, London.
February 16, 2002 (2002-02-16) (Saturday)
February 20, 2002 (2002-02-20) (Wednesday)
- Palindrome day, at 8:02 pm, on February 20, 2002, the date is read officially as 20:02, 20, 02, 2002, or 2002, 2002, 2002.
February 22, 2002 (2002-02-22) (Friday)
February 26, 2002 (2002-02-26) (Tuesday)
- 12 Shiite Muslims are killed in a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
- Big riot between Muslims and Hindus.
February 27, 2002 (2002-02-27) (Wednesday)
February 28, 2002 (2002-02-28) (Thursday)
- Gulbarg Society massacre : During the 2002 Gujarat riots, a mob attacked the Gulbarg Society, a lower middle-class Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad. Most of the houses were burnt, and at least 35 victims including a former Congress, Member of Parliament, Ehsan Jafri, were burnt alive, while 31 others went missing after the incident, later presumed dead, bringing the total of the dead to 69.
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