On this day in conspiracies

A formal directive on 'the Cuba operation' authorizes what becomes known as Operation Mongoose, or the Cuban Project, placing it under Lansdale's day-to-day direction and an interagency 'Special Group (Augmented).'

An autopsy at the Gades Institute finds soot in her airways (she was alive as she burned), a bruise on the right side of her neck, and 50 to 70 Fenemal (phenobarbital) sleeping pills in her system; cause of death is given as a combination of drug poisoning and carbon monoxide.

The Washington Post sends a reporter and runs a feature, “A Legendary Figure Haunts Remote Pr. George's Woods,” naming local young men who found the dog and giving the legend a regional and national audience for the first time.

Air Force investigators tell the FBI that no committee called Majestic 12 was ever authorized; the FBI's file concludes the document is 'completely bogus' and the case is closed.

Iranian officials begin describing a very different scene: a remote-controlled weapon rather than a hit team. Reports point to a machine gun mounted on a parked Nissan pickup truck that opened fire and was then destroyed.

OpenAI releases ChatGPT, and a conversational system fluent enough to feel general reaches the public overnight, resetting expectations for what software can do and seeding the intuition that a real threshold is near.

The first widely reported case: dozens of schoolgirls in the religiously conservative city of Qom are taken to hospital after reporting a strange smell and sudden symptoms. A local journalist, Ali Pourtabatabaei, is among the first to document it.