30 Things that Happened in 2002

We've time warped back to 2012 and 2007 why not head to 2002? I couldn't just skip high school years for so many of us!! So we're going FIFTEEN years back in time to see what was happening in 2002. I'm not sure how that's fifteen years because I'm pretty sure that the 90s are only 10 years ago right ... 

Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes dies in a car accident

Ice Age

We said good bye to the jean outfit matching relationship that was Britney and Justin

Two Snipers in Washington DC kill 10 people and injure 3

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Halle Berry became the first African American actress to win an Oscar for Best Actress

Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her family's Salt Lake City home

Everyone had a collective gasp as we saw Michael Jackson dangle Prince Michael II off the hotel balcony

Kelly Clarkson won the first season of American Idol

Sanyo SCP-5300 was the first cell phone to have a built-in camera to be released in the US

Lilo and Stitch

The Euro becomes the official currency of twelve EU countries

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

No Child Left Behind Act is passed

Winter Olympic Games are held in Salt Lake City, Utah

U.S. begins it's invasion of Afghanistan

R. Kelly goes from being trapped in the closet to trapped in a cell when he's charged with 21 counts of having sex with a minor

Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams at Wimbledon

Catch Me if You Can

The Bachelor premiers



Kate Middleton models in a student charity fashion show where she now goes from friend to more than friend for Prince William

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is published



I rocked out my junior year with these crazy ladies ...

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