Facts & Historical Events On This Day.
Singer Sinéad O'Connor was converted to Islam.
Cesar Sayoc was arrested for sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent US Democrats.
Rockstar Games' hit Wild-West series returned with the release of Red Dead Redemption 2.
The twenty-fourth James Bond movie 'Spectre,' starring Daniel Craig, premiered in London.
The Cedar Fire swept through San Diego County, California, destroying 2,232 homes and killing fifteen people.
Patriot Act comes into effect in the US.
The American sci-fi movie 'Donnie Darko' with Jake Gyllenhaal was released in the US.
Infant receives baboon heart.
The Terminator, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, was released in the US.
The US received Anwar Sadat, its first Egyptian presidential visit.
The Soyuz 3 spacecraft achieved the first Soviet space rendezvous with Soyuz 2.
Pan American Airways made the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
Maharaja Hari Singh agrees to the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India.
Stonehenge was given over to the British Government by its private landowner.
Ida B. Wells published 'Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.'
The most famous western gunfight happened at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
The Football Association is formed.
Inventor Hamilton Smith received his patent for his rotary washing machine.
Erie Canal opens for ships.
Tvrtko I became the first king of Bosnia.
