On this day in conspiracies

Gracie Vance and Orange Washington are killed on the same night at a residence where they lived, the first attack in the series to claim a man among the dead. Bloodhounds, patrols, and mass arrests fail to identify the killer.

Amid a Cook County grand jury investigation, Eddie Cicotte gives a tearful confession admitting he took $10,000 to help throw the Series. Jackson and Williams also give statements to the grand jury. The eight implicated players are suspended by White Sox owner Charles Comiskey.

John Paul I is found dead in his bed early in the morning, about 33 days into his papacy. A Vatican doctor estimates death at around 11 p.m. the previous night. The official cause is given as myocardial infarction, a heart attack. Following Vatican custom, no autopsy is performed; the last pope known to have been autopsied was Pius VII in 1830.

Under this pressure, the Israeli government establishes a commission of inquiry chaired by Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan, with Justice Aharon Barak and Major General (reserve) Yona Efrat, to examine the responsibility of Israeli officials for the events in the camps.

After the retrial, the Sandiganbayan convicts 16 military personnel of the double murder of Aquino and Galman and sentences them to life imprisonment (reclusion perpetua). General Ver, who had fled with Marcos, is not among the convicted. The Supreme Court affirms the convictions in 1994.

The EstLine ferry MS Estonia, en route from Tallinn to Stockholm in a Baltic storm, takes on water through the bow, lists sharply, and sinks in roughly an hour. Of about 989 people aboard, 852 die and 137 survive. Most victims are never recovered from the wreck, which lies in international waters off Finland.

The fourth and final eclipse, on Sukkot and coinciding with a “supermoon,” closes the tetrad and the prophetic window. It draws enormous attention. The date passes with no world-shaking or foretold event.

The Joint Investigation Team (JIT), led by the Netherlands with Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine, presents its first criminal findings: the Buk was fired from a farm field near Pervomaiskyi, in separatist-held territory, and the launcher was brought in from Russia and taken back across the border the same night.

Khashoggi visits the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain paperwork he needs to marry his Turkish fiancee, Hatice Cengiz. Officials tell him to return on 2 October.