On this day in conspiracies

Mafart and Prieur, the only two agents in New Zealand custody, plead guilty to manslaughter and wilful damage and are each sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.

At 9:14 p.m., during the sports segment of WGN-TV's Nine O'Clock News, the picture cuts to black, then to a masked figure jittering in front of a rotating corrugated-metal background. The intrusion lasts under 30 seconds before WGN engineers change the frequency of their studio-to-transmitter link and knock the signal out.

The European Parliament adopts a resolution on the 'Gladio' affair, condemning the clandestine networks as a threat to democratic oversight and calling for full investigations across member states.

Dariush Forouhar, a seventy-year-old veteran opposition figure and secretary-general of the Nation of Iran Party, and his wife Parvaneh Eskandari are found stabbed to death in their south Tehran home. Forouhar had been stabbed eleven times and Eskandari twenty-four. The brutality and prominence of the victims turn a series of scattered deaths into a national scandal.

Reuters reports that before the ouster, staff researchers had written to the board about a breakthrough codenamed 'Q*' that could reportedly solve grade-school math problems. Online, the vague report is rapidly reinterpreted as evidence the board had glimpsed a hidden AGI.

The FAA issues a temporary flight restriction over President-elect Donald Trump's Bedminster golf club, and days later a longer restriction over Picatinny Arsenal. Reports of nighttime lights and drones, first clustered along the Raritan River, begin spreading across New Jersey.