On this day in conspiracies

James Bedford, a retired California psychology professor, becomes the first human ever cryonically preserved after death, frozen by the Cryonics Society of California. The date is now marked by enthusiasts as 'Bedford Day.' It falls weeks after Disney's cremation: the practice Disney supposedly used barely existed when he died.

Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) publishes its report. It finds no technical fault with the aircraft and attributes the crash to the crew's failure to make a timely decision to divert to an alternate airport despite repeated warnings about the weather.

Fact-checkers including FactCheck.org and PolitiFact rate the claim that the White House or federal government is 'banning gas stoves' as false or unsupported, noting a commissioner's musing is not agency policy and that no ban proceeding exists.

Forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada, of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Peru's Public Ministry, presents an analysis of two figures seized at Lima's airport: they are dolls assembled from human and animal bones and modern glue, “not extraterrestrials.”