Apple Inc releases the first iPhone.

Ninety-nine people are killed in train crash near St-Hilaire, Quebec.

The Space Shuttle program Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.

Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 152 people and leaving schoolgirl Bahia Bakari as the sole survivor.

Two bombs are found in cars at Piccadilly Circus in London.