64 – Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
1760 – The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders
1848 – 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
1923 – WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions
1966 – Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1977 – Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76
1979 – 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 tons of oil spill
1989 – United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
1990 – Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
2017 – US Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer