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On 21 April Jean-Marie Le Pen reaches the second round of the French presidential election and people take to the streets. Jacques Chirac is re-elected with over 82 percent of the vote. In November the tanker Prestige sinks and oil pollutes the Spanish and French coasts. It is a tense political year.
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"A ridiculous bouncy ball for children": goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon had no love for the 2002 World Cup ball, judged too light and unpredictable. FIFA blamed novelty. Its gold and red stood for the two hosts, South Korea and Japan.
Photo: Nicola (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Snøhetta
The building is a sun disc rising from the ground to face the sea, a symbol of open knowledge. Designed by the Norwegian firm Snøhetta, Alexandria's new library cost $220 million and opened in October 2002. In 2004 it won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Photo: René Dinkel (CC0)
Its opening was first set for 1995 then 1996, until a financial crisis froze the project in November 1994. It finally opened in 2002 around the backstage of film and television.
Photo: William Warby from London, England (CC BY 2.0)
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