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On this day in conspiracies
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- 1978Pope John Paul I's deathSecret Societies & Power
Albino Luciani, the Patriarch of Venice, is elected pope after a short conclave and takes the name John Paul I. Warm and unassuming, he is quickly nicknamed 'the smiling pope'. He is 65 and has a documented history of fragile health, including earlier hospital stays and circulatory problems.
- 1985Rainbow Warrior bombingGovernment & Intelligence
A French government inquiry led by senior official Bernard Tricot reports that it found no evidence France had ordered the sinking. It is widely derided as a whitewash; New Zealand's prime minister calls it incredible and contradictory.
Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.