January

• January 1: The Legislative Assembly gathers and chooses senator Eduardo Duhalde
  Eduardo Duhalde
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   as interim president.
• January 2: President Duhalde announces the end of the 1:1 peso-dollar fixed exchange rate
  Fixed exchange rate
  A fixed exchange rate, sometimes called a pegged exchange rate, is a type of exchange rate regime wherein a currency's value is matched to the value of another single currency or to a basket of other currencies, or to another measure of value, such as gold.A fixed exchange rate is usually used to...
  
   (convertibility) after almost 11 years.

June

• June 25: The exchange rate briefly reaches 4 pesos per U.S. dollar in the free market, which means the national currency has lost 75% of its value in 7 months.

September

• September 4: Argentina
  Argentina
  Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
  
   defeated the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  , 87-80, at the World Basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
  
   Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana
  Indianapolis, Indiana
  Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
  
  . It was the first loss ever in international play for a United States team containing National Basketball Association
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
   players.

Deaths

• October 8: César Milstein
  César Milstein
  César Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:...
  
   (b. 1927), scientist, co-awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize for his work on monoclonal antibodies
  Monoclonal antibodies
  Monoclonal antibodies are monospecific antibodies that are the same because they are made by identical immune cells that are all clones of a unique parent cell....
  
  
• December 23: Hilario Fernández Long
  Hilario Fernández Long
  Hilario Fernández Long was an Argentine structural engineer and educator.He was born in Bahía Blanca and was of Spanish and Volga German descent. He graduated as a Civil Engineer from the University of Buenos Aires in 1941 and his professional life was centered on structural engineering...
  
   (b. 1918), engineer and educator

Sports

See worldwide 2002 in sports

2002 in sports

2002 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.-Alpine skiing:* Alpine Skiing World Cup** Men's overall season champion: Stephan Eberharter, Austria** Women's overall season champion: Michaela Dorfmeister, Austria-American football:...