The archive, day by day
On this day in conspiracies
The dated turning points behind the case files: assassinations, crashes, leaks, votes, and the moments a theory was born, each drawn straight from a file's sourced timeline. We only place an entry on a day the record actually names.
- 1971Bangladesh 1971 genocide denialHoaxes & Pop Culture
Archer Blood, the US Consul General in Dacca, sends a cable to Washington titled “Selective Genocide,” reporting systematic army attacks on poor neighborhoods and the targeting of Bengalis and Hindus.
- 2024Key Bridge collapseGovernment & Intelligence
Fact-checkers at Poynter, PolitiFact and others report that authorities have found no sign of a cyberattack and that the flickering lights are consistent with an electrical blackout, not sabotage. CNN documents how the theories formed almost instantly in the vacuum before facts were known.
Drawn from 1,959 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.