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.
- 1969Eduardo Mondlane assassinationGovernment & Intelligence
Mondlane is killed in Dar es Salaam when a bomb hidden in a parcel explodes as he opens it at the home of an acquaintance, Betty King. He is the first president of FRELIMO and one of the most prominent liberation leaders on the continent.
- 2016Lord LucanUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances
Under the Presumption of Death Act 2013, the High Court grants a death certificate for Lord Lucan, forty-two years after he vanished. This allows his son, George Bingham, to become the 8th Earl of Lucan. Lucan's fate remains officially unknown.
- 2023Chinese spy balloonGovernment & Intelligence
China's foreign ministry says the object is a civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that was blown off course by the westerlies, and expresses regret, citing force majeure. Secretary of State Antony Blinken postpones a planned trip to Beijing.
Drawn from 1,977 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.