On this day in conspiracies

Robert Low, an administrator who would coordinate the project, writes a memo to two University of Colorado officials weighing whether to accept the Air Force contract. It contains the line later at the center of the scandal: that “the trick” would be to design the study so it appears objective to the public while presenting the scientific community a group of non-believers with almost zero expectation of finding a saucer.

Nixon resigns the presidency, the only U.S. president ever to do so, and is succeeded by Gerald Ford.

Montazeri's son Ahmad releases a roughly 40-minute audio recording of the August 1988 meeting, in which his father confronts named commission members. It is the first widely heard primary-source confirmation from inside the regime. Iran's judiciary orders it taken down and later prosecutes Ahmad Montazeri.

Reyes is transferred out of MCC. No action is taken to assign Epstein a replacement cellmate, leaving him alone in his cell. That night the two officers on his unit stop making the required 30-minute rounds after about 10:40 p.m.

The Intercept publishes what it says is the full text of the cypher, cable I-0678, reigniting the debate and giving Khan's long-running claim a documentary spine.

In United States v. Smith, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that geofence warrants are 'categorically' unconstitutional as modern-day general warrants, though it declines to suppress the evidence under the good-faith exception. The ruling conflicts with an earlier Fourth Circuit decision, creating a circuit split.