On this day in conspiracies

Attorney General Frederick Solly-Flood, acting as the court's advocate-general, writes to the Board of Trade in London alleging that marks on the ship and stains on a sword pointed to violence and possibly a drunken mutiny by the crew.

Sauniere dies. His estate passes in practice to Marie Denarnaud, who lives on quietly at the villa for decades and takes whatever her employer knew to her own grave in 1953.

A directive signed by Stalin and Molotov effectively seals the borders of Soviet Ukraine and the Kuban, barring peasants from travelling to other regions in search of food and turning back those already on the move. The measure traps the starving inside the famine zone at the height of the crisis.

A passing motorist, Leonard Prescott, spots what he later described as flesh-colored shapes behind a guardrail along German Church Road, roughly 200 feet east of County Line Road in unincorporated Willow Springs. They are the nude, frozen bodies of the two sisters. The Willow Springs police are notified.

A Belgian physician gives a newspaper interview loosely suggesting a link between 5G and health harms just as reports of a new virus in Wuhan appear. The paper pulls the article within hours, but screenshots circulate and the pairing of '5G' and 'coronavirus' is planted online.