On this day in conspiracies

Maderista forces, part of the assault led by Francisco Madero's brother Emilio, overrun Torreón after federal troops abandon the city. As the rebels enter, troops and a local mob begin hunting down Chinese residents in the streets, homes, and market gardens.

Stevland Hardaway Judkins is born in Saginaw, Michigan, about six weeks premature. As a preterm infant he develops retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), then commonly linked to the high-oxygen incubators used for premature babies, and loses his sight in infancy.

Before dawn, police surround the house and order the occupants to surrender. When they do not, the operation turns into an hours-long confrontation: police fire thousands of rounds, deploy tear gas, and use fire hoses in an effort to force the occupants out.

Bilal Ghanem, a 19-year-old Palestinian, is killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank during the first intifada. The Swedish photojournalist Donald Bostrom attends his burial and photographs the body, which bears autopsy stitches. The family is not interviewed for what will later be written about the case.

At the beatification of Francisco and Jacinta Marto in Fatima, Cardinal Angelo Sodano announces that the third part of the secret will be published and previews its interpretation, linking the vision of a “Bishop dressed in White” who falls to the 13 May 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.

In the early morning, gunmen attack government buildings, break into the city prison and free hundreds of inmates including the 23 defendants, and occupy the regional administration building, taking hostages. Through the morning, thousands of residents fill Bobur Square in a rare mass protest, most of them unarmed and voicing economic and political grievances.

Brandon Swanson, 19, a student at Minnesota West Community and Technical College's Canby campus, spends the evening celebrating the end of the spring semester with friends. Late that night he sets off to drive home to Marshall, Minnesota.

Commissioner Rob Manfred removes the eight Black Sox players, along with Pete Rose and others, from MLB's permanently ineligible list, ruling that the lifetime ban ends at death. The move makes the long-deceased players eligible for Hall of Fame consideration but does not revisit the historical finding that the Series was fixed.

Brazilian fact-checkers Agencia Lupa and Aos Fatos, along with the Portuguese outlet Observador, publish verifications identifying the image as Time's May 2022 cover and confirming that Lula was not on any May 2026 edition. They note the post was amplified by a PT federal deputy before being corrected.

Euronews publishes a debunk cataloguing the main strands, including 'staged' crisis-actor claims and an 'Israeli hoax' variant built on a false claim about the meaning of the word 'hanta'.