The archive, day by day
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.
- 1857Xhosa cattle-killingDoomsday & Prophecy
By many accounts the decisive prophesied day. The sun was to rise blood-red, a great storm was to break, and the dead were to arise. The sun rose as it always had, the day passed, and no ancestors came. It became the movement's own 'great disappointment', though the deferrals and the deepening famine had already begun to break faith in the weeks before.
- 1951Point-shaving scandalsHoaxes & Pop Culture
Hogan announces the arrests of City College of New York stars Ed Roman, Al Roth and Ed Warner. CCNY had just completed a storied 1950 season, winning both the NIT and NCAA tournaments, which made the fall from grace national news.
Drawn from 1,970 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.