On this day in conspiracies

Van der Lubbe is executed by guillotine in Leipzig, days short of his 25th birthday. He never recants his claim to have acted alone.

After difficult negotiations, Shastri and Ayub Khan sign the Tashkent Declaration, formally ending the 1965 war and committing both sides to withdraw to pre-war lines.

Angelia Joiner, a reporter at the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, publishes witness accounts. The number of people willing to go on the record, including a county constable and business owners, gives the story unusual credibility for a UFO report.

Ali Abedzadeh, head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation, insists categorically that “no missile has hit the plane,” maintaining the denial in the face of the Western intelligence claims.

The investigative outlet Correctiv reveals the Potsdam meeting. The disclosure triggers some of the largest protests in recent German history, with hundreds of thousands marching across cities against the AfD and the 'remigration' agenda.

Disinformation researchers publish analyses: the Atlantic Council's DFRLab and The Washington Post report that Russia- and China-linked networks rapidly mobilized to flood social media with contradictory conspiracy narratives, pseudo-fact-checks, and manipulated visuals surrounding the capture.