On this day in conspiracies

President Sukarno signs the order known as Supersemar, transferring broad authority to Suharto. The PKI is banned days later. The mass killings taper off through the spring, having largely destroyed the party as an organization.

Ten bombs explode on four packed commuter trains in and around Madrid during the morning rush hour, killing about 191 people and wounding roughly 1,800, the deadliest terrorist attack in Spain's history.

The magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan (Tohoku) earthquake and tsunami kill roughly 18,000 people and trigger the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In the aftermath, secondhand copies of the long-out-of-print 1999 manga surge in price as readers claim its cover had foretold the catastrophe, seeding Tatsuki's reputation as a prophet.

The SCCRC again refers the conviction for a posthumous appeal, once more concluding a miscarriage of justice may have occurred, chiefly over the reliability of the identification evidence and undisclosed documents.

Commercial satellites begin capturing what analysts would later identify as human bodies already lying in Bucha's streets, most notably on Yablunska Street, while Russia held the town. A clear Maxar image dated 19 March shows the same objects in the same positions.

At a UN Security Council meeting Russia convenes, UN disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu says the UN is aware of no biological weapons program in Ukraine. US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says the allegations were debunked 'point by point'; Britain's ambassador calls them 'wild, completely baseless.'

The Associated Press, Reuters, AFP and PA issue a “kill notice” retracting the photo after spotting misaligned edges and inconsistencies that breach their standards on manipulation. Catherine releases a statement: “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” and apologises for the confusion. AFP's global news director says the palace can no longer be treated as a trusted source without verification.

With McCasland missing for nearly two weeks, the FBI joins the search. Officials say there is nothing to suggest anything nefarious has occurred, describing the effort as a missing-person case complicated by terrain and an unseasonably warm spring.

Four senators, Jeff Merkley, Lisa Murkowski, Ben Ray Lujan and Richard Durbin, write to the Government Accountability Office asking it to review how the department reviewed, redacted and released the files. Their letter calls the department's statement that no notable individuals or politicians were redacted 'plainly false', and puts twelve questions to the GAO covering staffing, contractors, the software used, any directives given about victims as against 'possible abusers and co-conspirators', and which political appointees signed off on redactions and on later removals. The allegations in the letter are the senators' own and are reported here as such.