On July 13
On July 13, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: First FIFA World Cup Held in Uruguay (1930).
On this day
The inaugural FIFA World Cup, the first global international association football tournament organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), was held in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930.
Also this week in history (Jul 10 – Jul 16)
On 14 July 1789 a Parisian crowd seeking arms and gunpowder stormed the Bastille, a royal fortress-prison that symbolised Bourbon absolutism.
In 1054 the long-building rift between the Latin (Roman) and Greek (Byzantine) churches hardened into formal schism.
On 14 July 1889, the centenary of the storming of the Bastille, a Marxist International Socialist Congress convened in Paris and founded the Second International, a federation of socialist and labour parties drawn from some twenty…
In July 1995, during the final stages of the Bosnian War, units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under General Ratko Mladic overran the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, which the United Nations had declared a 'safe area'…
On 16 July 1995 Amazon.com opened to the public as an online bookstore, founded a year earlier by Jeff Bezos, who had left a Wall Street firm to capitalise on the rapid growth of internet use.
On 10 July 2008 Apple opened the App Store with around 500 applications, providing a single, curated platform where outside developers could distribute software directly to iPhone users and share in the revenue.
On 14 July 2015, after years of negotiation, Iran and the P5+1 group (the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany, with the European Union) reached the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in Vienna.