On this day in conspiracies

After deliberating about an hour, the jury finds Wallace guilty. He is sentenced to death. The verdict startles many observers, given the thinness of the case and the judge's cautious summing-up.

At about 10 p.m., Henry McDaniel of Enfield, Illinois hears a scratching at his front door. He reports seeing a grayish creature between two rosebushes: a short body, two small arms, large reddish eyes, and what he describes as three legs, standing four and a half to five feet tall. He fires several shots with a pistol; the thing hisses like a wildcat and bounds away toward a nearby railway embankment.

Stern unveils the diaries at a packed Hamburg press conference and publishes its first excerpts. At the same event Trevor-Roper, having grown uneasy, publicly signals he has changed his mind and can no longer vouch for authenticity, an extraordinary reversal in front of the world's cameras.

As a stopgap before the new pipeline opens, emergency manager Darnell Earley oversees a switch to the Flint River as the city's interim water source. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) does not require corrosion-control treatment, a chemical step that keeps lead from leaching out of pipes. Residents almost immediately complain of discolored, foul-smelling, bad-tasting water.

A Legends and Lore roadside marker for the Bear Lake Monster, researched by a Utah State University folklore graduate student and funded by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation, is dedicated in Garden City, Utah, the state's first marker in that series. The monster is now formally recognized as regional folklore heritage.

On the night of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, shots are fired. According to the Justice Department and reporting from the scene, an armed man emerges as officers are removing magnetometers, a federal officer in a bullet-resistant vest is struck by buckshot and is expected to recover, and President Trump is rushed from the stage as guests duck for cover.