Events in the year 2002 in Mexico.
Fernando Colunga Olivares is a Mexican actor best known for his work in Mexican telenovelas.
Luis María Aguilera Picca was an Argentine singer, songwriter and actor, best known for worldwide hit song '"Cuando salí de Cuba". This song become the unofficial anthem for Cuban exiles. He also is the author and original singer of the Christmas song, "Ven a mi casa esta Navidad", later recorded by such artists as Lucero and Verónica Castro.
José María of Manila was a Filipino-born Spanish Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was martyred in the early phase of the Spanish Civil War, and is the third Filipino to have been declared blessed by the Roman Catholic Church.
The fourth annual Altazor Awards took place on March 24, 2003, at the Centro Cultural Matucana 100.
Sister María Ignacia, OSC, born Bertilda Samper Acosta was a Colombian Poor Clare nun, poet and writer. She was the daughter of José María Samper Agudelo and Soledad Acosta Kemble, both renowned writers and journalists of their time in Colombia.
Events in the year 2001 in Mexico.
Events in the year 1950 in Mexico.
Rafael Jiménez Inclán is a Mexican actor. He has starred in movies, telenovelas, and stage works. His career began in 1969. He is actor Alfonso Zayas Inclán's cousin.
Navidad sin fin is a Mexican telenovela produced by Eugenio Cobo for Televisa in 2001. This was the last Christmas telenovela that Televisa produced.
The Bandits of Cold River is a 1956 Mexican western film directed by Rogelio A. González and starring Luis Aguilar, César del Campo and Dagoberto Rodríguez.
FIBA International Christmas Tournament also known as the Christmas Tournament was a men's basketball international friendly competition at the club level, organized by FIBA at its first decades through the Commission of International Organizations under the hand of Raimundo Saporta, club director and president of the International Commission of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), and with the authorization and support of R. William Jones, its general secretary, so it had the officiality of FIBA in its first decades of life, being also the starting point of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup, whose first edition appears in the history of this competition. After 1980, the tournament transitioned to being an festive exhibition, although it still garnered attention and popularity.
José María Sánchez Borbón, was a Panamanian writer and politician.
The following squads were named for the 1937 South American Championship that took place in Argentina.
