July 30, 2004

The United Nations Security Council passes a US-drafted resolution 1556 demanding the Sudanese government end atrocities in the Darfur conflict; however, aid groups criticize the weakening of the resolution at the insistence of China, Pakistan, and Russia. (BBC)
Three people are killed and eight wounded in three suicide bomber attacks outside the U.S. and Israeli embassies and the Uzbek chief prosecutor's office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is blamed by Uzbek President Islam Karimov. Other unnamed sources point to al-Qaeda. (FOXNews) (AP)
A natural gas pipeline explodes in Ghislenghien, near Ath (thirty kilometres southeast of Brussels), killing 18 people and leaving over 120 wounded, some critically. (Reuters) (CNN)
Also known to fans of the New York Mets baseball team as "Black Friday" because of the infamous trade that sent popular lefthanded pitching prospect Scott Kazmir to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for Victor Zambrano and Bartolome Fortunato