On this day in conspiracies

After an inquest at which Lizzie gives shifting and at times contradictory testimony, without a lawyer present, she is arrested and charged with the murders.

Baba Vanga dies of breast cancer at Rupite. Her funeral draws large crowds, and a chapel she had commissioned stands nearby. With her death the person is gone, but the legend enters a phase of rapid, unchecked growth.

A total solar eclipse crosses parts of Europe, the last to touch the European mainland before 2026. It draws heavy coverage and a scattering of doomsday chatter, a pattern that recurs with almost every widely visible eclipse.

The strike turns violent over several days. In clashes at and around the mine, ten people are killed in the week before 16 August, including two Lonmin security guards and two police officers, alongside several miners and NUM members.

An autopsy is performed by the New York City medical examiner's office, with Dr. Michael Baden, a former city chief medical examiner hired by Epstein's brother, observing on the family's behalf. Baden later disputes the suicide finding but never claims the body is not Epstein's.

Eric Lerner publishes the essay “The Big Bang didn't happen” with the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI). It claims JWST's galaxies are “too smooth, too old and too small” to fit the Big Bang and cites Kirkpatrick's Nature quote to imply that astronomers are quietly panicking.