On this day in conspiracies

The Dallas Morning News publishes S.E. Haydon's dispatch. It reports that an officer named T.J. Weems pronounced the pilot 'a native of the planet Mars,' that the wreckage was gathered up, and that the pilot was buried 'with Christian rites' the next day in the Aurora cemetery.

After 51 days, the FBI mounts a tear-gas assault, using armored vehicles to insert CS gas into the buildings. A fire breaks out and consumes the compound. Seventy-six Branch Davidians die, including leader David Koresh and roughly two dozen children.

At 9:02 a.m. a Ryder rental truck loaded with about 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil detonates outside the nine-story Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. Roughly 90 minutes later, Oklahoma state trooper Charlie Hanger stops Timothy McVeigh on Interstate 35 near Perry for driving without a license plate, and arrests him for carrying a concealed weapon.

The ICTY Appeals Chamber upholds the finding that genocide was committed at Srebrenica, describing the execution of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys after the town's capture.

EUvsDisinfo catalogues a representative example, an item claiming that "US puppet Poland might be pushed to burn in the 'holy war' against Russia," illustrating the paired sovereignty-loss and cannon-fodder framing the project has documented across many similar messages.