On this day in conspiracies

Los Angeles County Coroner Theodore Curphey announces the findings after a psychiatric 'Suicide Prevention Team' review: the cause of death is acute barbiturate poisoning from an overdose, and the manner is a probable suicide. Toxicology reports fatal levels of pentobarbital and chloral hydrate.

Manoel Pereira da Cruz (32) and Miguel José Viana (34), electronics technicians from Campos dos Goytacazes, leave home. They tell relatives they are travelling to buy materials or equipment; Viana is carrying a large sum, later reported as Cr$ 2,300,000.

During a family camping trip at Uluru (Ayers Rock), Lindy Chamberlain reports that a dingo has taken her nine-week-old daughter Azaria from the family tent. Other campers join a night search of the dunes; the baby is never found alive. Lindy's cry, remembered as 'a dingo's got my baby,' becomes one of the most famous phrases in Australian history.

Zia travels to a test range near Bahawalpur to watch a demonstration of the US-built M1 Abrams tank, accompanied by senior generals and the US ambassador, Arnold Raphel. In the late afternoon his party boards the Pakistan Air Force C-130B Hercules, call sign Pak One, for the return flight to Rawalpindi.

Aftonbladet publishes Donald Bostrom's article under the headline "Our sons are plundered of their organs," strongly implying that Israeli forces kill Palestinians and take their organs. It offers testimony and atmosphere but no forensic proof of the murder-for-organs claim.