On this day in conspiracies

Around 11 a.m., during morning recess at Westall High School in Clayton South, Melbourne, students and staff report seeing one or more silver-grey objects in the sky. Descriptions vary but commonly give a round or domed shape, roughly the size of a car, over or near the school grounds.

Blood and twenty members of the Dacca consulate staff send the dissent cable later known as the Blood Telegram, protesting US silence and stating that “our government has evidenced moral bankruptcy” in the face of the killing.

At about 8:25 in the evening, the Dassault Falcon 50 returning Habyarimana from a regional summit in Dar es Salaam is hit by two surface-to-air missiles on its approach to Kigali and crashes near the airport, killing Habyarimana, Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira, their entourages, and the three French crew. There are no survivors.

The tribunal convicts Compaoré, his former security chief Hyacinthe Kafando, and Diendéré, sentencing each to life imprisonment for an attack on state security and complicity in Sankara's murder. Eight other defendants receive terms of three to twenty years; three are acquitted.

The Bologna Court of Assize convicts Paolo Bellini, a former Avanguardia Nazionale militant identified as the “fifth man,” and sentences him to life as a material executor. In its written reasoning, filed in 2023, the court names Licio Gelli as the massacre's instigator and financier, alongside P2-linked figures Umberto Ortolani, Federico Umberto D'Amato, and Mario Tedeschi, all deceased.

The Department of Energy posts its own denial on Facebook, restating that it made no lockdown announcement and reassuring the public that the country held a fuel supply buffer of more than 50 days (roughly 50.9 days of inventory).