On this day in conspiracies

After a jury trial that had run since 1987, Peggy McMartin Buckey is acquitted on all counts and Ray Buckey is acquitted on 52 counts. The jury deadlocks on 13 remaining counts against Ray Buckey, and a mistrial is declared on those.

After Kabila is flown toward Harare, Zimbabwe, the government formally announces his death. The exact moment and place of death are themselves disputed in later accounts.

Nisman is found shot dead in the bathroom of his apartment in the Le Parc tower in Puerto Madero, a .22 calibre pistol beside him. The weapon belonged to Diego Lagomarsino, an IT technician who worked with him and who says Nisman had asked to borrow it. The death, hours before the scheduled testimony, is initially treated as a possible suicide.

Nisman is found shot dead in his Buenos Aires apartment, a pistol beside him belonging to an IT employee. The death, hours before his congressional testimony, is initially treated as a possible suicide and becomes the most explosive unresolved thread of the entire affair.

Foreign-ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying calls for a WHO investigation of Fort Detrick. DFRLab documents a burst of state-promoted hashtags targeting the lab across Chinese social media in the days that follow.