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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell says that the United States is willing to sign a treaty with Russia on limiting strategic nuclear weapons, indicating a possible shift in administration policy after withdrawing, last December, from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. President George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin are set to hold an arms reduction summit meeting in Moscow in May. - Background material: nuclear disarmament, nuclear warfare, nuclear proliferation.

Proclamation by Mayor Martin O'Malley designating February 6, 2002 as "Beverly Lynn Burns Day" in Baltimore, Maryland.

The opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, which are held in Salt Lake City.

British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.
New British digital free-to-air television channels CBBC and CBeebies, launch at 5pm from the BBC Television centre, London.

George W. Bush signs a secret national security council directive establishing the goals and objectives for going to war with Iraq, according to the book Rumsfeld's War by Rowan Scarborough.^[1]
275 animal rights activists unite in front of the D.C. Neiman Marcus to demand that the company stop supporting the fur industry.^[2]
George W. Bush's weekly Presidential Radio Address, titled Asia Trip, discusses foreign relations.

Palindrome Day, At 8:02 pm, on February 20, 2002, the date is read officially as 20:02, 20, 02, 2002. Or 2002 2002 2002.

Alicia Keys wins five Grammys.
Today is the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth.
"War on Terrorism": The U.S. sends Special Operations Forces to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to help combat guerrilla fighters, though Russia protests.
57 people die in Godhra when a Muslim mob sets fire to a carriage on the Sabarmati Express filled with Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists returning from Ayodhya en route to Ahmedabad. After detaching the burned carriage, the train continues to Vadodara, where Hindus beat and stab people leaving the train, killing one. A 17-year-old is later killed in Godhra by police trying to disrupt mobs.
Comedian Spike Milligan dies from liver disease, aged 83.