The first-generation Apple iPhone went on sale.
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Finnish Armi Kuusela won the first Miss Universe Pageant at Long Beach, California.
The science Fiction Drama movie 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence' premiered.
The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir joined, forming the largest artificial satellite to orbit the earth.
A fire destroyed Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.
The first flight from the West Coast to Hawaii was made by the US Army aircraft, The Bird of Paradise.
