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July 30, 2011 (Saturday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Libyan Civil War:
- (NATO claims to have destroyed three television distribution facilities in an airstrike on Tripoli, Libya. (NATO)
At least thirteen people are killed when gunmen open fire at passengers near a bus stop in Quetta, Pakistan. (Xinhua)
Suspected Communist Party of the Philippines New People's Army forces attack a police station in Agusan del Sur killing a civilian and wounding two police officers. (Xinhua)

Arts and culture

Disasters

At least 17 people are killed in a fire at a shoe factory in the Vietnamese city of Hai Phong. (BBC)

Law and crime

News International phone hacking scandal
- The Metropolitan Police launches Operation Tuleta to investigate allegations of computer hacking by News International journalists. (BBC)
The Mexican media reports that hitman José Antonio Acosta Hernández, associated with the La Línea gang, is arrested in Chihuahua in connection to killing United States consular official and murders at a Juarez birthday party. (El Paso Times)^{[permanent dead link]}
Four people are shot and one killed after a George Clinton concert in the US city of Cleveland, Ohio. (19 Action News)

Sports

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 *[[Zara Phillips]], granddaughter of [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]], marries [[England national rugby union team|England rugby union international]] [[Mike Tindall]] in a ceremony at [[Canongate Kirk]], [[Edinburgh, Scotland]]. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14344093 (BBC)]
-*On Friday 7/29/2011, Raymond Wang went to a playground at 3:45 p.m. EDT after school with his brother, Bryan, and their father. Ray, 14, has been in trouble for compromising students' email accounts even though he is 100% innocent and did nothing wrong; he has been grounded since 7/19/2011. As he enters the eleventh day of this ordeal, he tells his family about it. Last night, Ray looked up the official music video for Justin Bieber's "Baby", which currently has over 590 million views. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725173802/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffacxfA7G4 (Xinhua)]
-*On the thirteenth anniversary of this day (2011 + 13 = 2024), the video for Clairo's "Second Nature" audio has 294,205 views as of 2 a.m. EDT. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU8IqUb_dWs (BBC)]
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