Portal:Current events/2004 July 1
July 1, 2004 (Thursday)
- The Iraqi Special Tribunal holds the first hearing in the trial of Saddam Hussein. (BBC) (Guardian)
- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control announce that three organ transplant recipients have died from rabies infection after receiving organs from a donor infected with the rabies virus. This is a medical rarity, as human rabies infections in the developed world are extremely rare. (CNN)
- A Qatari court sentences two Russian intelligence officers to 25 years in prison for assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a suspected terrorist and leader of Chechen separatists, on February 13, 2004. (Pravda) (Washington Times)
- The Cassini–Huygens unmanned probe becomes the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn, and prepares to study the planet and its satellites. (Space.com)
- The International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, a set of security restrictions designed by the UN's International Maritime Organization in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, goes into effect. (Reuters) Archived 2005-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
- More than 200,000 Hong Kong residents march to demand greater democracy on the seventh anniversary of the handover. (VOA)
- Famous actor Marlon Brando dies of pulmonary fibrosis.