27 juni 2002 was een donderdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♋. Het was de 177e 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 vrijdag 27 juni 2025, 353 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zaterdag 27 juni 2026, in 11 dagen. Je hebt 8.754 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 210.106 uur, of ongeveer 12.606.368 minuten, of ongeveer 756.382.080 seconden.
Date: 27 June 2002
By Barry Bearak (NYT)
Barry NYT
Indian investigators raid New Delhi offices of muckraking news Web site Tehelka.com, which became famous in 2001 by setting up its own sting operation to film politicians and army commanders who accepted bribes from journalists posing as arms dealers (S)
Date: 27 June 2002
By Sabrina Tavernise
Sabrina Tavernise
Russian military court acquits six men, five of them army officers, in murder of Dmitri Kholodov, journalist investigating corruption in Russian military in the early 1990's; verdict outrages Russian journalists (M)
Date: 27 June 2002
By Thomas George
Thomas George
Ray Mercer and Wladimir Klitschko hold pre-fight news conference, during which Mercer and his entourage spar with Klitschko's brother Vitali, leaving Wladimir to keep his cool and answer questions about upcoming heavyweight title bout; photo (M)
Date: 27 June 2002
By Charlie Leduff
Charlie Leduff
Arizona wildfires bring widespread and lasting economic damage to Fort Apache Indian Reservation; letting fires burn out is not option for the Apache, whose economy depends on logging, tourism and hunting permits; threatening messages have been left on answering machine of tribal chairman, laying blame for fire at feet of Apache because one of fires was allegedly set by teenager from Cibecue community; fire on reservation has not received media attention that resort town of Show Low has, and Pres Bush did not set foot on Indian land during his visit to state; photos; map (M)
Date: 28 June 2002
By Bob Tedeschi
Bob Tedeschi
Group of 10 Web site publishers is suing Gator, online advertising and information storage company, to stop it from placing pop-up ads over their sites without permission; publishers, which include Washington Post Co, Dow Jones & Co, Tribune Interactive and New York Times Co, file suit; Gator spokeswoman Mandy Mladenoff says company has issued statement that it is considering countersuit against publishers; suit maintains that its pop-up ads violate copyright and trademark laws and that they allow Gator to profit unjustly from user traffic generated by these Web sites (M)
Date: 28 June 2002
By Larry Rohter
Larry Rohter
Rio Journal on gangs' control of Favela da Grota slum, and murder of Tim Lopes, crusading crime reporter to whom slum residents had turned for help; photos; press and human rights groups deplore killing, which is chilling evidence that hillside shantytowns have become fiefs of gangs that are better armed than police and grow increasingly bold (M)
Date: 27 June 2002
By Leslie Savan
Leslie Savan
Leslie Savan Op-Ed article says press coverage of possible improper stock trading by Martha Stewart has been deplorably nasty; says it is always more fun to focus on an individual than corporation, to humiliate a woman over six-figure stock sale than to examine systemic problems that lead to Enron, Global Crossing or insider trading that goes on between lobbyists and elected officials; drawing (M)
Date: 28 June 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Medtronic Inc wins Food and Drug Administration approval of pacemakerlike device called InSync ICD combined with defibrillator that treats advanced heart failure; device is priced at about $27,000, and cost can go as high as $40,000 (S)
Date: 27 June 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federated Department Stores agrees to sell about $1.2 billion of credit card receivables from its Fingerhut catalog and Internet unit to CompuCredit Corp; says it will buy receivables at discount and will keep 800 Fingerhut employees in Minnesota (S)
Date: 27 June 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Mills says net income fell to $57 million in its fiscal second quarter ended May 26 compared with $146 million year earlier; sales rose to $2.32 million from $1.32 million (S)