On this day in conspiracies

Around 2 a.m., Olson goes through the closed window of room 1018A on the tenth floor of the Hotel Statler and falls to the sidewalk. Lashbrook is in the room. Olson is still alive when the night manager reaches him but dies within minutes. The death is recorded as a fall; the LSD is not mentioned to the family or the public.

Wood, Wagner, and the actor Christopher Walken travel to Santa Catalina Island aboard the yacht Splendour for a Thanksgiving-weekend trip, with the boat's captain, Dennis Davern, also aboard. The group spends part of the evening ashore and drinking.

In parliament, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz accuses Kuchma of ordering Gongadze's abduction and plays recordings he says were made secretly in the president's office by a guard, Mykola Melnychenko. On the tapes, voices identified as Kuchma and Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko discuss dealing with the journalist. The Cassette Scandal begins.

Early Iranian accounts describe a squad of gunmen and a firefight with Fakhrizadeh's bodyguards, alongside a truck bomb. These first descriptions of assailants on the ground would soon be contradicted by Iran's own later findings.