On this day in conspiracies

The government declares martial law over the stricken region. Rather than quashing the rumor, parts of the police and Home Ministry relay it: warnings that Koreans are a threat go out through official channels, lending the false story the authority of the state and helping organize the response around it.

A group including the zoologist and amateur archaeologist J. Manson Valentine, along with divers such as Jacques Mayol and Robert Angove, locates a long line of large stone blocks in shallow water off North Bimini. The timing, matching Cayce's window almost exactly, gives the find immediate notoriety.

The first AMIA trial collapses. The Federal Oral Court acquits all the accused in the “local connection” and rules the investigation irredeemably tainted, finding that Judge Galeano had paid the key witness, car dealer Carlos Telleldin, US$400,000 from intelligence funds to give false testimony.

The German government announces that a Bundeswehr (armed forces) toxicology laboratory has found unequivocal proof that Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent of the Novichok group, a class of Soviet-developed chemical weapons.