On this day in conspiracies

The three-minute segment airs as the closing item on Panorama, narrated by Richard Dimbleby, one of the most authoritative voices in British broadcasting. It reports a fine Swiss spaghetti harvest, credits a mild winter and the decline of the “spaghetti weevil,” and shows a family gathering the strands. An estimated eight million people are watching.

Steve Cook, a disc jockey at WTCM-FM in Traverse City, writes and records a song titled "The Legend" about an imaginary dog-headed creature he dreams up, giving it a folkloric "seven-year cycle" in which it appears in years ending in seven. He airs it as an April Fool's Day gag, having never heard of any actual Michigan "dogman."

A YouTube account under the username retiredafb posts the first of a series of videos purporting to show footage from a secret Apollo 20. The choice of April Fools' Day for the debut is later read by skeptics as a tell.

The first videos and photographs of bodies in civilian clothing appear on social media, and Bucha's local council reports the dead. Within a day, images of the scene circulate worldwide.

For April Fools' Day, Gomez pokes fun at the theory in a comedy video filmed at her Rare Beauty office, in which a new 'assistant' runs down a to-do list and mentions 'something about calling a clone. I don't know, could ignore that.' Gomez answers the rumor by laughing at it rather than dignifying it with a solemn denial.