20 december 2002 was een vrijdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 353e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 23 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 20 december 2025, 171 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 20 december 2026, in 193 dagen. Je hebt 8.572 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 205.730 uur, of ongeveer 12.343.803 minuten, of ongeveer 740.628.180 seconden.
Date: 20 December 2002
By Joseph Kahn (NYT)
Joseph NYT
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp broadens its reach into fast-growing Chinese television market by agreeing to jointly finance and produce TV programs with Hunan Broadcasting Group (S)
Date: 20 December 2002
By Floyd Norris
Floyd Norris
Nasdaq market regulatory body NASD revises its proposed rule covering conflict of interest disclosures by stock research analysts; removes requirement that analysts not talk to reporters (M)
Date: 20 December 2002
By James Brooke (NYT)
James NYT
Five Japanese returned to Japan after lengthy stay in North Korea after being abducted hold joint press conference announcing their decision to stay in homeland and express wish for their families to join them; Hitomi Soga, American soldier Robert Charles Jenkins' wife, declares intent to visit mother-in-law in US; Jenkins, still in North Korea, has been listed as deserter since 1965 when he disappeared near demilitarized zone; photo (S)
Date: 20 December 2002
CHINA: Auto Venture; CHINA: Broadcast Agreement; JAPAN: Insurance Fund Renewed; JAPAN: Conservation Urged; PHILIPPINES: Exports Decline;.
Date: 20 December 2002
By Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder
Adam Nagourney
New York Times/CBS News Poll of Republican National Committee shows support for Sen Trent Lott is diminishing and concern that he is damaging party's image and undermining its efforts to appeal to minorities; only 16 percent of committee members believe he will survive questions about his views on segregation; poll of Democratic National Committee members finds Democrats are concerned about their performance in midterm election and worried about how that bodes for 2004 presidential election; both parties agree that Al Gore would have been weak candidate, had he decided to run; graph show poll details (M)
Date: 20 December 2002
By Marc Santora
Marc Santora
Boldface Names column; actor Daniel Day Lewis has immersed himself in art of shoemaking during five-year hiatus from making movies; Tom Hanks comments on box office success of movie Road to Perdition compared with that of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which he produced with his wife Rita Wilson; John C Reilly appears in three movies coming out soon, The Hours, Gangs of New York and Chicago; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg dresses as Santa Claus to dole out gag gifts for members of press; photos (M)
Date: 20 December 2002
By Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman NYC column comments on changed atmosphere at City Hall under Mayor Michael Bloomberg; recalls Mayor Giuliani's relationship with press was more adversarial (M)
Date: 20 December 2002
By Adam Liptak (NYT)
Adam NYT
Kentucky Supreme Court denies request of Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington to hold Courier-Journal of Louisville in contempt for publishing article describing sexual abuse and cover-up accusations in suit against diocese after court had ordered records sealed (S)
Date: 21 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wyeth will begin selling nonprescription generic version of Schering-Plough's allergy medication Claritin, which lost its patent protection in Dec (S)
Date: 20 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pfizer agrees to pay Neurocrine Biosciences as much as $400 million for rights to experimental insomnia drug indiplon (S)