On this day in conspiracies

The Mary Celeste departs New York for Genoa, Italy, under Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs, carrying his wife Sarah, their two-year-old daughter Sophia, seven crew, and 1,701 barrels of denatured (industrial, undrinkable) alcohol.

Kilgallen makes her final live appearance on What's My Line? on the evening of Sunday, 7 November. She later has drinks at a Manhattan hotel bar before returning home.

Life magazine tracks McCartney to his Scottish farm and puts him on the cover with his family under the headline 'Paul is still with us.'

At around 9 p.m., in the basement kitchen of 46 Lower Belgrave Street, nanny Sandra Rivett is beaten to death with a length of bandaged lead pipe. It was normally her night off; she had swapped it. Lady Lucan, going down to look for her, is attacked in the dark, breaks free, and runs to the nearby Plumbers Arms pub, telling drinkers her husband had killed the nanny.

After roughly 27 hours, the army retakes the palace. A fire engulfs the upper floors and destroys much of the building and its archives. About 100 people are dead, including 11 of the 25 Supreme Court justices and Reyes Echandia. Almost all of the M-19 assault team is killed.

At roughly 4:15 p.m., a United Airlines ramp employee at O'Hare reports a metallic, disc-shaped object hovering over Gate C17 in the United terminal. Word spreads over the ramp radio and other workers step outside to look. Accounts put the object between 6 and 24 feet across, dark gray, and completely silent.

After a weeks-long trial, a Los Angeles jury convicts Dr. Conrad Murray of involuntary manslaughter, finding that his administration of propofol and his failure to properly monitor Jackson caused the death.

Major news organizations project Joe Biden as the winner. The Trump campaign and allied lawyers announce a wave of litigation and a public campaign alleging mass fraud in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.