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Pearl Harbour mystery solved, the Earth holds a summit and the time they tried to kill Christmas in Camden.

Blazin' Squad hits the charts, we've got new albums from Eve, Queens of the Stone Age, 30 Seconds to Mars and we find out what happened to Popstars 2 runner up Selwyn.

Michael Jackson crowns himself artist of the millennium lil Tecca is born and we have cake with Jeff Hardy and Yasmin Bleeth.

It's the week that was 25 -31 August 2002.

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Typhoons, plane crashes and embassies under seige! It's just another week in the early 2000s.

Rich Beam won the PGA Championship at Hazeltine after he was drugged by his wife, the Doggiez breached the salary cap and were in big trouble and nobody told Steve Jobs how to properly pronounce Jaguar.

We take you on a world tour of music with a new UK number one from the Sugababes, albums from Black Sabbath, Sweden's Dark Tranquility, Spain's Las KEtchup and we take a look at the number one single in Germany, just for the hell of it...

PLUS we reveal the first public display of hatred for Nickleback!

AND we wish a happy birthday to Dimebag Darrell!

All that and more for the week commencing 18 August 2002.

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Airlines going bankrupt, floods in Europe and a product recall on human tissue. You'd be forgiven for thinking the end times were upon us! But no! It's just another week back in 2002.

In. music we've got the history of Murder Inc, new albums from Nerf Herder & Def Leppard and we ponder who on earth would call themselves Keith Sweat.

You'll get some pretty confronting search results if you Google the name of this weeks box US office number 1. Good news for the purple rinse set as Burgos Catchphrase rises like a phoenix from the ashes and White Collar Blue debuts on the teeny bopper network. 

Plus we get to talk about He-Man and The Masters of The Universe and heaps more!

It's the week commencing 11 August 2002. 

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An abduction at in the UK that shook the world, in Australia Pacific Brands led the way for a national paid maternity leave scheme and in sport Australia wins the Bledisloe Cup.

In music Nelly is number one in the US, Darius is colourblind in the UK and DJ Sammy takes us to Heaven. New albums from Swedish extreme metal masters Meshuggah and Bowling for Soup are Drunk Enough to Dance.

At the movies M.Night Shyamalan goes to the top of the box office in the US with Signs, Hugh Grant takes About a Boy to number one in Australia and the Anna Nicole Show makes its global debut on the telly.

We wish a happy birthday to rising star Olivia Deeble and the great Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden. Nicolas Cage Marries Lisa Marie Presley.

It's the week commencing 4 August 2002. 

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A harrowing rescue this week as nine coal miners are trapped in the Quecreek Mine in Pennsylvania, terror in Jerusalem with the Hebrew University bombing and a Legionnaire's disease outbreak in the UK that could have easily been avoided.

We've got three wheeled scooters and nobody won the Tour De France that year, however Aussie Robbie McEwen did win the green jersey and no one could take that away from him!

Nelly and Kelly hit the charts and Beyonce is ticked off, The Boss gets together with the E Street Band to lift the spirits of the free world and Moby headlines his own festival because he can.

Plus we've got the 35th Comic-Con, everyone hates Tom Brady and we discuss Cameron Diaz's latest rom com.

It's the week commencing 28 July 2002! T-minus 20 starts as soon as you press play!

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A financial scandal bigger than Enron, cloning returns to the headlines when a well known fertility expert takes his operation underground and a massive disaster over the skies of the Ukraine at the Sknyliv air show.

Schumacher wins his 5th F1 championship in France, the Commonwealth Games open in Manchester and Warwick Capper enter the Big Brother House!

Road to Perdition dominates the box office this week, Nelly remains top of the pops and My Chemical Romance release their debut album.

Prince Felix of Denmark is born and he shares a birthday with Saul Hudson a.k.a. Slash, from Guns n' Roses. We find out who he was hanging out with 20 years ago at an event that was the catalyst for the formation of Velvet Revolver.

It's the week commencing 21 July 2002.  

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The French president avoids an ill-conceived assassination attempt on Bastille Day, there's a massive beef recall in the States when they find poo in the meat and a nightclub in Peru turns into a deathtrap when it is consumed by fire.

The second gen iPod is released with Windows support, Gareth Gates goes to number one in the UK and Aussie band The Vines release their critically acclaimed debut album 'Highly Evolved'.

Splendour in the Grass is the place to be seen for festival scene-hoppers and the annual Sexpo kicks off at Fox Studios in Sydney where's it's dubbed 'The Easter Show of Adult Entertainment'. Don't ask what the bunny does with eggs at this event though!

All that and heaps more this week on T Minus 20! It's the week of 14 July 2002!

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Hormone Replacement Therapy hits the headlines, a piece of baroque art breaks a record at auction and pilots are allowed to carry guns on planes.

Lleyton Hewitt wins Wimbledon and Friendster is the new social network everyone wants to be a part of.

New albums from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Men in Black 2 is a hit at the box office and Monk makes his TV debut.

Plus loads more on the week commencing 7 July 2002.

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The International Criminal Court vows to bring tyrants to justice, there's gangland murders in Griffith and we see a mid air disaster end with a shocking true crime twist.

Steve Fossett finally succeeds in his around the world solo balloon flight at the expense of the Aussie taxpayer and Brazil dominates the World Cup Final.

Oasis release Heathen Chemistry, Green Day get up to Shenanigans and someone thinks its a good idea to remix Jessica Simpson. Meanwhile Sony music feels the wrath of Michael Jackson.

Peter Corbett wins the second season of Big Brother, Sailor Moon gets cancelled, we wish Lindsay Lohan a happy birthday and we discover the chilling tale of a baseball legend who was cryogenically frozen! 

Plus much more!

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George W Bush gets a colonoscopy, someone invents an electronic dog translator and we take a 'trerp' to Nellyville.

Rod Stewart and Coldplay headline Glastonbury, Ozzy Osbourne releases Live at Budokan and The Who's John Entwhistle is found dead in a hotel room.

Cruise and Speilberg rule the box office with Minority Report, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are no longer in action and Australians still think Scooby Doo is the best thing to see at the movies.

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