Unix Timestamp: 1026172800
Tuesday, July 9. 2002, 12:00:00 AM UTC

A helicopter crash in Cyprus kills the head of the Cyprus National Guard, Lt. General Evangelos Florakis.

At a Sotheby\\\'s auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents (first version) is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.

The Organization of African Unity is disbanded and replaced by the African Union.