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 round trip over the Atlantic. It had set out from Scotland for the United States on July 2.

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

1943 - The greatest tank battle in history, at Kursk, south of Moscow, ended with the Soviet Red Army defeating the German invaders. Almost 6,000 tanks took part, and at least 230,000 men were killed or wounded or went missing.

1951 - The Austrian-born composer and musical theorist Arnold Schoenberg, known for developing the Twelve-tone technique and for teaching Anton Webern and Alban Berg, died in Los Angeles aged 76.

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 dollar 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 Middle East peace.

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

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

2003 - A 25-member US-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 - The Austrian-Argentine conductor Carlos Kleiber, known as 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 US corporate bankruptcy.

2006 - Iraq formally took over security of the southern province of Muthanna from British-led troops, the first area outside the relatively peaceful Kurdish region to be handed over to Iraqi control since the US invasion in 2003.

2006 - Red Buttons, red-haired comedian who won an Oscar for his role in the 1957 film ''Sayonara'', died aged 87. Buttons started his 60-year career as a child, singing for pennies on New York's street corners.

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