2002: (January 5) Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
July 17th: Michael Vick, Quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, and three other men were charged with dogfighting that happened on Vick's property in Virginia.
After an extremely bitter, nasty, dirty, polarizing election campaign (do we have any other kind these days?), George W. Bush is re-elected President of the United States.