6 december 2002 was een vrijdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 339e 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 6 december 2025, 184 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 6 december 2026, in 180 dagen. Je hebt 8.585 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 206.058 uur, of ongeveer 12.363.519 minuten, of ongeveer 741.811.140 seconden.
Date: 07 December 2002
By Nazila Fathi (NYT)
Nazila NYT
Iranian government, responding to American policy of fingerprinting and photographing Iranians entering US, asks airport security to fingerprint and thoroughly document American journalists entering country (S)
Date: 07 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Forest Laboratories Inc will not be able to sell new hpyertension treatment in United States before 2005 because regulators demand more research; Forest bought rights to medicine, called lercanidipine, from Recordati of Italy (S)
Date: 07 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Oakley Inc, maker of upscale sunglasses and sports accessories, cuts its forecast for fourth-quarter sales and earnings; says it expects fourth-quarter sales of about $100 million and per-share earnings of break-even to 1 cent (S)
Date: 06 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Florida jury rules that Union Carbide and other building-products makers are responsible for lung ailments of construction worker who was exposed to asbestos; awards $1.8 million to worker, Yves Lagueux (S)
Date: 06 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mattel reaches settlement with shareholders who sued over company's 1999 acquisition of Learning Co (S)
Date: 06 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
PepsiCo says that it will raise price of syrup it sells to its bottlers in United States by 2 percent starting Feb 1 (S)
Date: 07 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Two more senior managers are leaving Merrill Lynch & Co, latest departures in E Stanley O'Neal's first week as chief exec; they are Paul Roy and Michael Marks (S)
Date: 07 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Moody's Investors Service cuts long-term debt rating of Cable and Wireless two levels to junk, on concern that company will spend too much to reorganize its biggest unit (S)
Date: 06 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Drug maker Merck expects higher earnings next year, helped by sales of bone-building medicine Fosamax and asthma treatment Singulair (S)
Date: 06 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
D&B, business-information provider formerly called Dun & Bradstreet, says it agreed to buy Hoover's Inc for about $117 million, gaining growing online publisher of corporate data (S)
Date: 06 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pier 1 Imports says that third-quarter profit rose more than forecast after sales last month exceeded projections; profit put at 32 to 33 cents a share (S)