1930 - The first FIFA World Cup began in Montevideo, Uruguay, with the participation of 13 teams.
1943 - The greatest tank battle in history ended at Kursk, south of Moscow, with the Soviet Red Army defeating the German invaders. Nearly 6,000 tanks participated, and at least 23,000 men were killed, wounded, or went missing.
1985 - Live Aid, a rock music concert organized by Bob Geldof, was held in London and Philadelphia, raising over $60 million for famine relief in Africa.
1992 - Yitzhak Rabin assumed the position of Israeli Prime Minister, offering an immediate invitation to travel to the capitals of his Arab enemies in search of peace in the Middle East.
2000 - Vietnam signed a historic trade agreement with the United States, paving the way for normal trade relations between former adversaries for the first time since the Vietnam War.
2002 - American-Armenian photographer Joseph Kersch died at the age of 93; his 1941 portrait of Winston Churchill symbolized the British war effort. Among his other subjects were Fidel Castro, Ernest Hemingway, John F. Kennedy, and Albert Einstein.
2004 - Austrian-Argentinian conductor Carlos Kleiber, known as one of the greatest and most demanding conductors of his time, passed away at the age of 74.
2005 - Bernard Ebbers, the popular businessman who built WorldCom Inc into a telecommunications giant, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a fraud scheme that led to the largest bankruptcy in U.S. corporate history.
2013 - The world's first antique French carnival opened to the public in New York.
2016 - British Prime Minister David Cameron resigned.
