Texas, severely flooding Houston and killing 23 people. June 7 2001 United Kingdom general election: Tony Blair and the Labour Party win a second landslide victory. Former Argentinian president Carlos Menem is arrested on suspicion of illegal arms sales. June 12 – Aračinovo crisis: Albanian rebels violate a 24-hour cease fire with Macedonian soldiers. June 15 – Declaration to establish the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is signed. June 19 Syria withdraws thousands of forces from a decades-long military presence in Beirut, Lebanon. Germany enacts a program to compensate Holocaust survivors that were subject to slave labor. A missile hits a soccer field in northern Iraq, killing 23 people and wounding 11 more. According to U.S. officials, it is an Iraqi missile that malfunctioned. June 21 – The world's longest train is run by BHP Iron Ore between Newman and Port Hedland in Western Australia (a distance of ); the train consists of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000CW locomotives, giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moves 82,262 tonnes of ore; the train is long. June 22 – Kadalundi train derailment: A train derailment in Kadalundi, India kills at least 59 people. June 23 – An 8.4 southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami follows, leaving at least 77 people dead, and 2,687 others injured. June 25 – Alkhan-Kala operation: Russian forces carry out a zachistka operation in Alkhan-Kala, Grozny, Chechnya, during the Second Chechen War. Chechen warlord Arbi Barayev is killed. July July – The largest ever recorded outbreak of Legionnaires' disease occurs in Murcia, Spain. 449 cases are confirmed, with more than 800 suspected ones. July 2 – The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools in the United States. July 4 – Vladivostok Air Flight 352 crashes on approach while landing at Irkutsk Airport, Russia, killing all 145 people aboard. July 7 – 2001 Bradford riots: Ethnic violence is provoked in Bradford, England, by the far-right National Front and far-left Anti-Nazi League. July 13 – The International Olympic Committee chooses Beijing to host the 2008 Summer Olympics. July 14 – Agra Summit: India and Pakistan begin talks to improve relations. The summit ends inconclusively on July 16. July 16 – China and Russia sign the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship. July 20–22 – The 27th G8 summit takes place in