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On this day in conspiracies
The dated turning points behind the case files: assassinations, crashes, leaks, votes, and the moments a theory was born, each drawn straight from a file's sourced timeline. We only place an entry on a day the record actually names.
- 2006Litvinenko poisoningGovernment & Intelligence
Litvinenko meets Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun at the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, and drinks green tea from a pot at the table. Investigators later conclude the tea had been laced with polonium-210. Litvinenko falls seriously ill that night.
- 2024Serbia sonic weapon claimGovernment & Intelligence
A concrete canopy at the newly renovated railway station in Novi Sad collapses, killing 15 people (a death later rose to 16). Blamed on corruption and shoddy oversight, the disaster ignites months of mass anti-government protests across Serbia.
Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.