On this day in conspiracies

At a packed meeting of the Geological Society of London, Woodward announces the find and names it Eoanthropus dawsoni. He presents a reconstruction with a large braincase, arguing this proves early humans developed a modern-sized brain long before losing their ape-like faces.

George and Kathy Lutz close on the house, sold well below market value given the crime, and move in with their three children.

After lower courts rebuff him, the Supreme Court of Nigeria rules in Fawehinmi's favour on the question of standing, holding that a private citizen could seek to compel or bring a prosecution, a decision treated as a landmark on locus standi in Nigerian law. The ruling clears a procedural path but does not itself establish anyone's guilt.

Science Translational Medicine publishes an MIT-led study, funded by the Gates Foundation, describing dissolvable microneedle patches that leave an invisible pattern of near-infrared quantum-dot dye under the skin to record vaccination history in places with poor paper records. It is a dye readable by a modified smartphone, not a chip, and cannot track location.

Sweden's director of public prosecutions, Lennart Guné, publicly walks the 2020 conclusion back, saying there was not enough evidence to name Engström and that he should no longer be treated as the main suspect. The investigation stays closed.