On this day in conspiracies

The Bavarian government publishes the seized papers as 'Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens,' a roughly 400-page volume intended to discredit the order by exposing its own words; a second volume of further seized documents follows the same year.

From Palermo, Majorana sends Carrelli a telegram and a follow-up letter that appear to walk back the earlier note, with the line often rendered as 'the sea has rejected me,' saying he will return to Naples. He is believed to have boarded a return ferry that evening.

The Westchester-Rockland Daily Item runs a front-page story headlined "HUNDREDS CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN UFO," pushing the sightings into wide public view.

Acting on an anonymous tip from a former member, San Diego County sheriff's deputies enter the house and find all 39 dead, dressed identically and covered with purple shrouds. Autopsies attribute the deaths to a combination of phenobarbital and alcohol. The group's website, left online, remains accessible for years afterward.

Raniere, who had traveled to Mexico, is arrested there and expelled to the United States. Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York charge him; over 2018 they add sex trafficking, forced labor, and racketeering counts, and indict co-defendants including Nancy Salzman, Lauren Salzman, Allison Mack, Clare Bronfman, and bookkeeper Kathy Russell.

At about 1:29 a.m. EDT the outbound container ship Dali, nearly 950 feet long and fully loaded, suffers a blackout and loss of propulsion in Baltimore Harbor. Minutes earlier its crew issues a mayday, and Maryland police begin stopping traffic. The ship strikes the southern pier of the bridge's central spans, which collapse into the river. Six road-maintenance workers on the deck are killed; a seventh survives.