Reuters historical calendar - July 13

London, July 12 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 13 since 1900.

1919 - The British airship R34 landed back in Norfolk, England, after making the first-ever Atlantic aerial roundtrip. It set out from Scotland for the United States on July 2.

1930 - The first-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Montevideo, Uruguay, with 13 teams taking part.

1943 - The greatest tank battle in history ended with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, south of Moscow. Almost 6,000 tanks took part and 2,900 were lost by Germany. There were at least 230,000 casualties in the battle.

1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born composer, died in Los Angeles.

1955 - Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in Britain for the murder of her lover David Blakely.

1960 - John F Kennedy won the Democratic nomination to run for president of the United States, beating Senator Lyndon Johnson.

1977 - A massive power failure at 9:34 p m caused a huge blackout all over New York City. Looting and rioting broke out and police arrested at least 3,000 looters.

1985 - Live Aid, a rock concert masterminded by Bob Geldof, took place in London and Philadelphia and raised over 60 million dollars for famine in Africa.

1992 - Yitzhak Rabin took over as Israeli prime minister with an immediate offer to travel to the capitals of his Arab enemies in search of West Asia peace.

2000 - Vietnam signed a landmark trade deal with the United States which cleared the way for normal trade relations between former enemies for the first time since the Vietnam War.

2002 - Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-born US photographer, whose 1941 portrait of a glowering, resolute Winston Churchill symbolized Britain's war effort, died. He was 93. Among his other subjects were Fidel Castro, Ernest Hemingway, John F Kennedy and Albert Einstein.

2003 - A 25-member U S-backed Iraqi Governing Council held its inaugural meeting in Baghdad, abolishing holidays that honoured Saddam and creating a new one to mark his downfall.

2004 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian-Argentine orchestra conductor, dubbed one of the greatest and most difficult conductors of his time, died aged 74.

**2005 - Bernard Ebbers, the folksy entrepreneur who built WorldCom Inc into a telecommunications giant, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for business fraud that led to the largest U S corporate bankruptcy.

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