On this day in conspiracies

Through the early hours, returns appear on radar at National Airport, at the airport's second radar, and at Andrews Air Force Base nearby. Some airline pilots and tower staff report seeing lights matching the radar positions. The correlated radar-and-visual element is what makes the night notable.

In Hong Kong, Bruce Lee, 32, complains of a headache, takes an Equagesic tablet given to him by the actress Betty Ting Pei, and lies down to rest. He cannot later be roused and is pronounced dead at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He had suffered a similar collapse with brain swelling that May.

Iran accepts UN Security Council Resolution 598, ending eight years of war with Iraq. Days later the MEK, based in Iraq, launches a cross-border offensive it calls Operation Forough-e Javidan (Eternal Light), aiming to march on Tehran.

The International People's Tribunal 1965, a non-binding civil-society court sitting in The Hague, finds the Indonesian state responsible for crimes against humanity and concludes the killings fell within the terms of the Genocide Convention. It also finds the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia complicit.

Erdogan declares a state of emergency, later renewed until July 2018, enabling rule by decree. Turkey formally requests the extradition of Gulen from the United States; Gulen denies involvement and condemns the coup.

Microsoft, in a blog post by David Weston, estimates that roughly 8.5 million Windows devices were affected, characterising this as less than one percent of all Windows machines but enough to cause worldwide disruption because so many were in critical services.

A Reddit post claims that of 886 active user ratings it counted, only 498 were positive, implying a 'real' audience score of about 56.2 percent rather than the roughly 97 percent verified score on display. The figure spreads across social media and partisan entertainment blogs as supposed proof that Rotten Tomatoes is hiding the film's rejection.

Euronews publishes an omnibus debunk of the tournament's biggest viral fakes, and the EBU's Spotlight runs a final fact-check. RTVE finds the 'referee is a Spain fan' image was AI-generated; a viral 'Trump snubs Lamine Yamal' clip is shown to be selectively edited, with official broadcast footage confirming the handshake completed.