ON THIS DAY

64: Great fire of Rome begins.

1872: Britain introduces voting by secret ballot. 1923: The British Matrimonial Causes Act gives women equality in divorce suits.

1969: US Senator Teddy Kennedy’s car plunges off a bridge in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, and passenger Mary Jo Kopechne drowns.

1990: Iraq warns OPEC members it views violations of the group’s production quotas as virtual acts of war.

1999: India says it has ousted the intruders on its Kashmir frontier with Pakistan, ending the worst fighting between the countries since a 1971 war.

2014: World leaders demand full access to the Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down with 290 people aboard.

Birthdays: South African leader Nelson Mandela (1918-2013); Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee (1949-); US actor Vin Diesel (1967-).