Event:
Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
More Notable Events on July 13:
1988 Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert
1960 U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate
1945 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico
1865 P. T. Barnum's museum burns down
1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered, Henry R. Schoolcraft
