On this day in conspiracies

Off the Arafura coast, the double-hulled catamaran carrying Rockefeller and Dutch anthropologist René Wassing is swamped by heavy seas near a river mouth and overturns; two Asmat guides, Simon and Leo, swim for help.

US Representative Leo Ryan of California arrives at Jonestown with journalists and Concerned Relatives to investigate reports that members are being held against their will. The first day appears cordial, but overnight several residents pass notes asking to leave.

Japan Airlines Flight 1628, a Boeing 747-200F freighter flying from Paris to Tokyo via Reykjavik and Anchorage, is cruising at 35,000 feet over eastern Alaska near Fort Yukon at about 5:10 p.m. local time. The three-man crew is Captain Kenju Terauchi, First Officer Takanori Tamefuji, and Flight Engineer Yoshio Tsukuba.

The Hague court convicts Girkin, Dubinskiy and Kharchenko of causing the crash and the murder of all 298 aboard, sentencing them to life imprisonment in absentia, and acquits Pulatov. It finds the separatist area was under Russian overall control and that the men organised the transport of the Buk, though it could not establish who fired it.

OpenAI's board abruptly fires Altman, saying it had lost confidence in his candor. Five days of chaos follow; he is reinstated on November 22 with a largely new board. The board never publicly specifies what triggered the removal.