Editing 2002 (section)

===August===
* [[August 7]] – The [[AKS primality test]] is published by [[Manindra Agrawal]], [[Neeraj Kayal]], and [[Nitin Saxena]] from the [[Indian Institutes of Technology]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weisstein |first=Eric W. |title=MathWorld News: Primality Testing Is Easy |url=https://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2002-08-07/primetest/ |access-date=2024-10-13 |website=MathWorld |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 19]] – [[2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash]]: Chechen separatists shoot down a Russian [[Mil Mi-26]], killing 127 soldiers. It was the worst aviation disaster in the history of the Russian military.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-04-30 |title=Chechen gets life for killing 127 Russian soldiers |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/30/russia.chechnya |access-date=2022-12-11 |website=The Guardian |language=en |archive-date=December 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211060405/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/30/russia.chechnya |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 22]]–[[September 4]] &ndash; [[Typhoon Rusa]], the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, makes landfall, killing at least 236 people.<ref name="ifrc99">{{cite report|author=International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies|publisher=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs|date=2002-09-09|title=DPR Korea: Typhoon Rusa Information Bulletin No. 2/2002|access-date=2012-07-31|url=http://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-peoples-republic-korea/dpr-korea-typhoon-rusa-information-bulletin-no-22002|archive-date=August 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808054037/http://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-peoples-republic-korea/dpr-korea-typhoon-rusa-information-bulletin-no-22002|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="guy">{{cite report |author=Guy Carpenter |date=2003-01-30 |title=Tropical Cyclone Review 2002 |publisher=Marsh & McLennan Companies |access-date=2012-07-25 |url=http://gcportal.guycarp.com/portal/extranet/popup/pdf/GCPub/tropcyc_02.pdf |page=21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206042923/http://gcportal.guycarp.com/portal/extranet/popup/pdf/GCPub/tropcyc_02.pdf |archive-date=2012-02-06 }}</ref>
* [[August 26]]–[[September 4]] – [[Earth Summit 2002]] takes places in [[Johannesburg]], South Africa, aimed at discussing [[sustainable development]] by the [[United Nations]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tilbury |first=Daniella |date=2003 |title=The World Summit, Sustainable Development and Environmental Education |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44656369 |journal=Australian Journal of Environmental Education |volume=19 |pages=109–113 |doi=10.1017/S0814062600001518 |jstor=44656369 |issn=0814-0626}}</ref>
* [[August 28]] – [[EUMETSAT]] launches the [[Meteosat 8]] satellite as part of its [[Meteosat]] program.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Long-serving European weather satellite safely moved to the "graveyard orbit" |url=https://www.eumetsat.int/long-serving-european-weather-satellite-safely-moved-graveyard-orbit |access-date=2024-10-13 |website=EUMETSAT}}</ref>