On this day in conspiracies

Giwa is summoned to and questioned by State Security Service officials in the days before his death. By later accounts he was accused of stockpiling arms and planning a social revolution; the interrogation is widely reported to have involved senior figures, and its timing, just before the bombing, becomes central to the suspicion of state involvement.

Guevara's remains, returned to Cuba, are reinterred with full honors in a purpose-built mausoleum in Santa Clara, the site of his most famous battlefield victory, alongside comrades who died in the Bolivian campaign.

The New York Times publishes 'Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded,' putting the branding, the collateral, and the master/slave structure on the public record with named former members. The story is widely disbelieved and widely believed in equal measure; NXIVM initially defends the practices as consensual.

The National Security Archive publishes 39 declassified US Embassy documents, part of some 30,000 pages processed by the National Archives, confirming in the diplomats' own words that Washington closely followed the killings and viewed the destruction of the PKI as a welcome outcome.