On this day in conspiracies

Swift Runner (Ka-Ki-Si-Kutchin), a Cree man, is hanged at Fort Saskatchewan in what is often called the first legal execution in what is now Alberta, after killing and eating members of his family the previous winter. Because he had access to other food, the case is later cited as a signature example of so-called wendigo behavior, though it is also read as the act of a man in profound crisis rather than proof of a monster.

The scheduled relief by the lighthouse tender Hesperus, under Captain James Harvie, is delayed by persistent bad weather in the waters around the Flannans.

LaPaz writes to the Air Force that the objects are atypical of meteors: silent, appearing at full intensity instantly, holding constant brightness, and traveling on a nearly horizontal path. He later tells officials he considers a conventional meteorite fall most unlikely, and privately weighs whether the fireballs could be secret devices, American or Soviet.

Teenagers David Faraday, 17, and Betty Lou Jensen, 16, are shot dead on Lake Herman Road near Benicia, California. The attack is not tied to a named killer at the time.

Nigeria's food and drug regulator, NAFDAC, and Health Minister Isaac Adewole announce the lab results: the seized rice is not plastic. It is real rice, contaminated with microorganisms above the permissible limit and unfit to eat, most likely smuggled and poorly stored, not a synthetic product.