On this day in conspiracies

In Gretna, across the river, Charles and Rosie Cortimiglia and their infant daughter were attacked in their home. The parents survived; the child did not. Rosie later accused neighbors, who were convicted and then freed when she recanted, another line of inquiry that collapsed.

Around 6:30 in the morning, Masaryk's body is found in the courtyard of the Czernin Palace, in his pyjamas, below the window of his bathroom on an upper floor. The state press agency announces within hours that he took his own life.

Ray pleads guilty in a Memphis court and is sentenced to 99 years, avoiding a possible death penalty. Within three days he recants, fires his lawyer, and begins a decades-long effort to withdraw the plea and win a full trial. He never gets one.

The planets reach the configuration on schedule. The tides run a fraction of a millimeter higher than usual. No great earthquake strikes California, and no global catastrophe occurs anywhere.

U.S. forces demolish an Iraqi ammunition depot at Khamisiyah. It is later determined that some rockets destroyed there held a mixture of the nerve agents sarin and cyclosarin, releasing an undetermined low-level amount into the air. At the time, no exposure is recognized or recorded.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 aboard. Again a failed angle-of-attack sensor triggers repeated MCAS nose-down commands. The near-identical second crash makes the pattern impossible to dismiss as isolated pilot error.

The STL Appeals Chamber reverses the acquittals of Hassan Merhi and Hussein Oneissi and convicts them; each is later sentenced to life imprisonment. All convictions remain in absentia, as none of the men were ever in custody.

For UK Mother's Day, Kensington Palace releases a photograph of Catherine smiling with her three children, credited to Prince William. It is the first official portrait since the surgery and is intended to reassure the public.

The FDA approves leucovorin calcium (marketed as Wellcovorin) for cerebral folate deficiency tied to a confirmed FOLR1 gene variant, a rare condition, based on a systematic review of the literature rather than a new trial. Officials, including Commissioner Marty Makary, stress that the data did not support endorsing leucovorin for autism generally, only for this narrow genetic subset.