On this day in conspiracies

A federal jury convicts former Attorney General John Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

The rollover passes with only minor and short-lived problems. Documented glitches include a U.S. Defense Department satellite intelligence system that went down for hours, thousands of wrongly dated Medicaid claims, and assorted display and billing errors, but no cascading infrastructure failure.

The Tribune publishes Hilkevitch's front-page column, "In the sky! A bird? A plane? A ... UFO?" The online version becomes the most-read story in the paper's website history, drawing more than a million views in a week.

Hilkevitch publishes a front-page Tribune story, 'In the sky! A bird? A plane? A ... UFO?' The online version draws roughly a million hits in a week and is picked up by NPR, CNN, CBS, Fox News, and MSNBC.

At about 8:39 a.m. local time, a Tesla Cybertruck parked in the valet portico of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas catches fire and explodes. Firework mortars and fuel canisters in the truck bed drive the blast and fire. The lone occupant is killed; seven bystanders nearby suffer minor injuries. The building suffers only minor damage.

At about 3:15 a.m. local time, a man drives a rented pickup truck around a police vehicle and onto the pedestrian-packed stretch of Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, striking dozens of people celebrating the new year. He then gets out and fires on responding officers; police return fire and kill him. Fourteen people are killed and dozens more are injured.