On this day in conspiracies

A second flap begins. Cloyce Warren, working along the river, reportedly snaps a Polaroid after a column of water erupts near his boat and a large form with a spiny back passes by. The blurry image, printed in a newspaper and later lost in its original form, becomes the only claimed photograph of the creature.

Prisoners in Abu Salim, protesting harsh conditions and the denial of family visits and medical care, seize a guard and take control of parts of the prison. In the initial clash, guards open fire, killing several prisoners and wounding others. Senior officials, including intelligence chief Abdullah Sanussi, are sent to the prison to negotiate.

After investigative digging and a tip from a retired Bolivian general, a forensic team locates a mass grave by the Vallegrande airstrip containing several skeletons, one lacking hands and wearing remnants of an olive-green jacket, identified as Guevara.

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, after a multi-year investigation, refers Megrahi's case back to the courts, finding on several grounds that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred, including over the identification evidence and material not disclosed to the defence.

The House of Representatives votes 255–67 to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over the administration's refusal to turn over certain documents, after the President asserts executive privilege. It is the first such citation of a sitting Attorney General.

US District Judge Alison Nathan sentences Maxwell to 240 months, 20 years, in prison. Having earlier found three of the conspiracy counts multiplicitous, the judge enters judgment on the surviving counts and imposes an above-guidelines term, calling the crimes 'heinous and predatory.'

The Coast Guard reports that presumed human remains and additional Titan debris have been recovered from the seabed and transported ashore for analysis, and it convenes a Marine Board of Investigation, its highest level of inquiry.

The activist Sonam Wangchuk begins a hunger strike at the protest site, and the CJP demonstrations widen well beyond the original student issues, drawing heavy political and online attention.