Singer Sinéad O’Connor was converted to Islam.
As part of her conversion, she also changed her name to Shuhada.
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Ida B. Wells published 'Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.'
Pan American Airways made the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
The American sci-fi movie 'Donnie Darko' with Jake Gyllenhaal was released in the US.
The most famous western gunfight happened at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
Cesar Sayoc was arrested for sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent US Democrats.