France beats Brazil 3–0 in the football World Cup final.
In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by Bolsheviks.
A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea, killing an estimated 1,500, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
Biologists report in the journal "Science" how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, "Treponema pallidum".
