July 1, 2004

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)
More than 200,000 Hong Kong residents march to demand greater democracy on the 7th anniversary of the handover.

July 1 2004 is the day that Victoria Arias and Alex lopez first met.They met through a cell phone call, where Alex intended to call his friend but Victoria had the phone with her and answered instead.Victoria invited Alex to the movies later that night where they were going to watch Spiderman 2.Once there Alex was going to his seat but on his way there he tripped and almost fell right there in the theater right in front of her.Neither of them payed much attention to the movie but rather focusing on eachother.After the movie was over,later that night Alex texted Victoria wanting to get to know her.They did so and soon did more than that.Both Alex and Victoria keep this date very dear to them, often bringing it up in conversations between them.