On this day in conspiracies

The jury acquits all defendants of criminal conspiracy, citing insufficient evidence. Reports describe players and jurors celebrating together afterward.

Three North Vietnamese torpedo boats engage the USS Maddox, a US destroyer on a signals-intelligence patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin. This attack is real and not in dispute.

At 10:25 a time bomb of roughly 23 kilograms of explosive, concealed in a suitcase left in the second-class waiting room, detonates at Bologna Centrale station. It kills 85 people and wounds more than 200, collapsing part of the station and a waiting train. It is the worst terrorist atrocity in Italy since the Second World War.

Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait. The invasion and the occupation that follows are real, documented, and not in dispute; they are the backdrop against which the incubator story is later deployed, not the thing this file questions.

The ICTY convicts General Radislav Krstic and rules for the first time that the Srebrenica massacre constituted genocide, the destruction in part of the Bosnian Muslims as a group.