On this day in conspiracies

The night before the barrage, a Japanese submarine surfaces off Santa Barbara and shells the Ellwood oil field. It is the first attack on the U.S. mainland since the war began, and it sharpens the region's certainty that a larger strike is coming.

The renewed effort to bring the two officers to trial collapses when a Lagos judge rules that they cannot be prosecuted on the material presented. No trial on the merits of the murder charge is ever held, and the officers named by Fawehinmi are never convicted.

UN Special Rapporteur Agnès Callamard reports that Iran committed multiple violations of international law, finding that the crash site was looted and bulldozed, that the investigation was neither prompt nor transparent, and that for three days the government denied the plane had been shot down.

After the Supreme Court strikes down a centerpiece of the administration's tariff agenda, analysts tell CNBC the odds of the tariff-dividend checks are 'now effectively zero.' The legal basis for the underlying tariff revenue is itself in doubt.