On this day in conspiracies

The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, letting Hitler's cabinet legislate without parliament. Combined with the Fire Decree, it forms the legal scaffolding of the dictatorship. The emergency 'temporary' decree will in fact stay in force until 1945.

The national weekly magazine Shukan Asahi covers the slit-mouthed woman, one of several mass-market publications that pick up the story that spring. National media attention accelerates the spread far beyond Gifu.

In his Sunday homily, broadcast nationally, Romero addresses the armed forces directly: “In the name of God, and in the name of this suffering people, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you: stop the repression.” It is the most explicit challenge yet from the church to the military.

At a press conference in Salt Lake City, the University of Utah announces that Fleischmann and Pons have achieved sustained nuclear fusion at room temperature on a lab bench. The news electrifies the world: newspapers herald limitless clean energy, and the claim reaches the public before any peer-reviewed paper is available for scientists to scrutinize.

At around 5:00 p.m. at a rally in Lomas Taurinas, Tijuana, Colosio moves through a dense crowd when a man presses a .38 revolver to his head and fires; he is struck a second time in the abdomen. Much of the scene is captured on video. He dies in hospital hours later.

On the final night before Curacao, Amy and her brother stay up late at a shipboard disco, dancing and socializing with members of the ship's band. A keycard record logs Amy re-entering the family cabin at about 3:40 a.m.

Misbar debunks an AI-generated video falsely showing the USS Gerald R. Ford damaged by an Iranian attack, noting the hull does not match the real ship and that some versions carry a Google Veo AI watermark and the stamp of a page calling itself a digital content creator.