page_title: 2002 in the United States
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 2002 in the United States / Events / February
caption_attribution_description: Close-up of 2002 Winter Games Olympic Torch
context_page_description: Events from the year 2002 in the United States.
context_section_description: February 1 – Kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is murdered in Karachi, Pakistan.
  February 3 – Super Bowl XXXVI: The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams 20–17 in New Orleans.
  February 8–February 24 – The Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The U.S. wins 10 gold, 13 silver and 11 bronze medals.
  February 12 – The U.S. Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.
  February 13 – Queen Elizabeth II gives former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knighthood.
  February 19 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
caption: February 8 – February 24: The Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City
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