On this day in conspiracies

U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry releases the first Surgeon General's report on smoking, concluding on the basis of thousands of studies that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. The scientific question the industry called 'open' is, by mainstream consensus, closed. The companies keep contesting it anyway.

In the early hours, only hours after the signing, Shastri falls ill at the villa where he is staying. His personal physician, Dr R N Chugh, and Soviet doctors attend him, but he dies. He is 61. The cause is given as a heart attack (myocardial infarction). No post-mortem is performed.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee, upholds the principle that federal nuclear regulation does not bar state-law punitive damages, while remanding on other grounds. In 1986 Kerr-McGee settles with the estate for $1.38 million and admits no fault.

The US Department of Justice announces that Volkswagen has agreed to plead guilty to three criminal felony counts and pay 4.3 billion dollars in combined criminal and civil penalties. Six executives and employees are indicted; the company also accepts an independent monitor for three years.

Iran's Armed Forces General Staff admit that the IRGC shot down the aircraft, having misidentified it as a hostile target; the head of the IRGC Aerospace Force publicly takes responsibility. Large protests erupt in Iran demanding accountability.

Amid the backlash, CPSC Chair Alexander Hoehn-Saric issues a statement saying 'I am not looking to ban gas stoves and the CPSC has no proceeding to do so.' Trumka separately posts that 'CPSC isn't coming for anyone's gas stoves' and that any regulations 'apply to new products.' The White House says the president would not support a ban.