On this day in conspiracies

Newell hires two laborers, Gideon Emmons and Henry Nichols, to dig a well behind the barn at the very spot where the figure lies. They strike stone, uncover the 'giant,' and within hours the discovery is the talk of the county.

Opening the Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit in Putrajaya, Mahathir declares that 'the Jews rule this world by proxy' and that they 'get others to fight and die for them,' and claims Jews 'invented' socialism, communism, human rights, and democracy. The speech draws a standing ovation from assembled leaders and is condemned as antisemitic by the United States, the European Union, Australia, and Jewish organizations.

During a raid on a Romani settlement near Farsala, central Greece, police find a roughly four-year-old girl with blonde hair and pale skin living with a Roma couple, Christos Salis and Eleftheria Dimopoulou, who cannot document a legal adoption. On the assumption that she must have been abducted, the couple are charged and the girl, nicknamed the “Blond Angel” and called Maria, is taken into care.

Flint reconnects to the Detroit water system. Because the corrosive river water has already damaged the protective scale inside the pipes, lead continues to leach, and the water is not declared safe to drink without filters for many months.