10 Years Ago – In January 2002
/Many years ago I started collecting headlines as a way of honing my reading of news. Over the years, the headline collection has been warped by the sources of news I was reading…increasingly online. I recently looked back to the January 2002 headline collection and picked 10.
- Dave Thomas (Wendy’s) dies
- Ford cutting 35,000 jobs
- Enron scandal
- Cuba base for war on terrorism detainees
- The color of the universe is light turquoise
- A 984-foot-wide asteroid, discovered Dec. 26 and labeled as being potentially hazardous by NASA, came within 516,000 miles of hitting Earth
- Dead Sea is Sinking Lower
- Kmart files chapter 11
- Amateur satellite doing well in orbit
- Ex-UK PM Thatcher suffers stroke
Were these the most important things in the news 10 years ago? Some may have been (Enron and Cuban base). Others were simply things I was interested in at the time. I enjoyed looking at the whole list and forcing myself to pick 10. It somehow gave the current news more perspective.