2014 Event Mobile photo sharing app Snapchat settles with the Federal Trade Commission after acknowledging that it falsely claimed that data sent through the app would disappear rather than form a permanent record, creating user privacy violations 2012 Event Robert Spitzer, a retired American psychiatrist, claims his 2001 study was 'fatally flawed'; the study falsely supported the myth that gay people could be 'cured' 1970 Event New York Times falsely reports U.S. Army has ended domestic surveillance 1920 Event New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly 1914 Event German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg 1865 Birthday Frederick A. Cook, U.S., explorer, claimed falsely to be at North Pole
