September 22, 2002 (Sunday)
- Armagh beat Kerry at Croke Park, Dublin by a scoreline of 1-12 to 0-14 to win their first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.
- A new Bundestag (German parliament) is chosen. In a very tight election, Gerhard Schröder defeats Edmund Stoiber to remain Chancellor. The German Green Party does very well. The coalition between the SPD and the German Green Party continue with Joschka Fischer as vice chancellor.
- Politics of Germany, Bundestag, List of political parties in Germany (SPD, CDU/CSU, Greens, FDP, PDS)
- People: Guido Westerwelle (Chancellor-Candidate of the FDP)
- Hurricane Isidore strikes the Yucatán Peninsula as a Category Three hurricane.