On this day in conspiracies

Having delivered her cargo in Brazil, the Deering leaves Rio de Janeiro for the return voyage and puts in at Barbados for supplies, where first mate Charles McLellan drinks heavily, openly complains about Wormell's command and failing eyesight, and is briefly jailed before Wormell secures his release.

Beginning in the evening, Hanford dissolves 'green' irradiated fuel cooled for roughly sixteen days rather than the usual ninety or more, deliberately maximizing the radioactive iodine-131 and xenon that go up the stack. The operation, later known as the Green Run, is coordinated with the Atomic Energy Commission and the Air Force's long-range detection effort. Commonly cited figures put the iodine-131 released on the order of thousands of curies, with estimates spanning roughly 7,000 to 12,000.

Police recover two suitcases the woman had left in the baggage lockers at Bergen railway station, containing wigs, cash in several currencies, plain-glass spectacles, a notepad of coded entries, and clothing with every label removed or cut out.

The ICAO delivers its first report. Working only from the material states volunteered, and without the flight recorders, it concludes that the airspace violation was almost certainly accidental, though it cannot fully explain the navigation failure.

After a trial before the Sandiganbayan, the anti-graft court, all of the accused, including General Ver, are acquitted. The verdict is widely condemned as a whitewash orchestrated from the presidential palace.

The court convicts the group and sentences the principals, including Nairi Hunanyan, his brother Karen, their uncle Vram Galstyan, Derenik Bejanyan, and Eduard Grigoryan, to life imprisonment for the killings and related crimes.

FIFA's executive committee awards the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar. The votes are immediately controversial: weeks earlier a Sunday Times undercover investigation had filmed two committee members appearing to offer their votes for money, and both were suspended before the ballot.

Trump declares that documents Biden signed by autopen are 'null, void, and of no further force or effect,' telling recipients of such pardons that the document has been 'fully and completely terminated.'