August 7, 2002 (Wednesday)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli forces kill six Palestinians: Israeli undercover soldiers kill four Palestinian militants wound three in a gun-fight in Tulkarm. An Israeli sniper kills Hussam Hamdan, a member of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops and 30 tanks push into northern Gaza, killing a Palestinian policeman. These come in response to the attacks of August 4 listed above.
- Three members of Manchester rock band Oasis have been injured in a head-on car crash in Indianapolis while on tour in the U.S. None were seriously injured.
- Mathematics: A group at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur have presented an algorithm that they claim determines whether a number is prime in polynomial time relative to the length of the input number in bits. This is an important result in computational complexity theory.
- Stock market downturn of 2002: The stock market remains volatile.
- Explosions went off near the parliament building as Colombia's President Álvaro Uribe was being sworn in, killing at least 10 people.
- Alien hominid released on Newgrounds to much approval. the game created by Dan Paladin and Tom Fulp became one of the most influential games of its time.