On this day in conspiracies

A routine self-check finds Silkwood contaminated with plutonium at roughly 400 times the legal limit. Over the next two days, plutonium is also found in her apartment, including in the bathroom, the kitchen, and a package of food in her refrigerator. She contends she was deliberately contaminated; Kerr-McGee suggests she contaminated herself to embarrass the company. The source is never resolved.

A crew of seven, led by foreman Mike Rogers, is thinning brush under a U.S. Forest Service contract in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. Driving out after dark, the men say they see a glowing object hovering near a clearing. Travis Walton, Rogers's friend and crew member, leaves the truck and approaches on foot.

Maxwell vanishes overnight from the Lady Ghislaine while cruising off the Canary Islands. His naked body is recovered from the Atlantic later that day. He is 68.

The first posthumous album is released under the new alias Makaveli, titled The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. Its artwork and the phrase “Exit Tupac, Enter Makaveli” are read by believers as an admission that he, like a misremembered version of Machiavelli, planned to fake his death.

Iran's judiciary reports that three people have been sentenced to death in connection with the killing, part of a domestic prosecution over the security failure and the plot, years after the attack.

Election Day in the United States. Polls close through the evening and, into the early morning, the Associated Press and television networks project Donald Trump the winner. Kamala Harris does not address supporters on election night; she concedes the following day.