On this day in conspiracies

Believers gather in homes, meeting houses and open fields to await the return. The day passes like any other. The movement names the outcome the Great Disappointment. Contemporary accounts describe weeping and stunned believers; the diarist Hiram Edson wrote that they 'wept, and wept, till the day dawn.'

The grand jury returns indictments; eight players and several gamblers are charged with conspiracy. New York racketeer Arnold Rothstein is widely named as the scheme's likely financier, though he is never charged and denies involvement in his own grand jury appearance.

Schneider is shot during a botched kidnapping attempt by a Chilean group and dies three days later. The CIA had supplied weapons and money to plotters, though the fatal attempt was carried out by a faction it had, days earlier, tried to distance itself from.

Under intense public pressure, Marcos creates an independent fact-finding board chaired by retired appellate justice Corazon Juliano-Agrava. Over the following year it holds 125 sessions, hears 194 witnesses (including hearings abroad), and compiles a record of 20,377 pages.

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), cycling's world governing body, accepts USADA's findings, erases Armstrong's name from the Tour de France record books and upholds his lifetime ban.

The Nigerian Army publicly brands reports of a shooting 'fake news,' at one point flatly denying that soldiers were even at the toll gate.