On this day in conspiracies

Eight months after Cabral's death, the PAIGC unilaterally proclaims the Republic of Guinea-Bissau at Madina do Boé. Dozens of states recognize it within the year. Portugal formally acknowledges independence in September 1974, after the Carnation Revolution ended the dictatorship.

After local police trace a suspect's telephone call to an FSB number and detain agents connected to the scene, FSB director Nikolai Patrushev announces on television that Ryazan was a training exercise to test public vigilance and that the sacks held only sugar. Putin, now prime minister, launches full-scale military operations in Chechnya.

US Attorney Alexander Acosta's office and Epstein's lawyers sign the non-prosecution agreement (NPA). In exchange for a guilty plea to state charges and payments to victims, the federal government agrees not to prosecute Epstein federally, and not to charge four named female associates or "any potential co-conspirators."

In a further order, the CIC holds that the government has a duty to explain how Shastri died and that the public's right to know the truth cannot be brushed aside, recommending that the authorities reconsider declassification. The single PMO file nonetheless remains closed.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivers its sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth and is redirected on an extended mission, renamed OSIRIS-APEX (OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer), to rendezvous with Apophis after the 2029 flyby, underscoring that scientists treat the pass as an opportunity, not a threat.

A National Cancer Institute analysis in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, using SEER registry data, reports that U.S. cancer incidence fell in 2020 as pandemic disruptions delayed screening, then returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2021 without the rebound that would have caught up the missed diagnoses. This is the opposite of a vaccine-driven wave.

The second predicted date passes in the same way. By the morning of 25 September the prediction has plainly failed its own test.