The Conspiratory

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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.

  1. 1969
    Fred Hampton's killingGovernment & Intelligence

    Around 4:45 a.m., roughly fourteen officers assigned to Hanrahan's office raid the apartment at 2337 West Monroe Street. Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, are killed; Ronald Satchel, Blair Anderson, Brenda Harris, and Verlina Brewer are wounded. Officials describe a fierce gun battle in which the Panthers opened fire.

  2. 1986
    Maurice Bishop executionGovernment & Intelligence

    After an eight-month trial, a Grenadian court convicts 14 defendants, including Bernard Coard, his wife Phyllis Coard, and Hudson Austin, of the Fort Rupert murders and sentences them to death. With others convicted of lesser charges, the group becomes known as the “Grenada 17.”

  3. 2016
    PizzagateSecret Societies & Power

    Edgar Maddison Welch, a 28-year-old from North Carolina who had read the theory online, drives to Washington, enters Comet Ping Pong with a loaded AR-15 style rifle and other firearms, and fires shots inside, intending to 'self-investigate.' He finds no children, no basement, and no ring, and surrenders. No one is hurt.

  4. 2024
    S. Korea 2024 election fraudGovernment & Intelligence

    The National Assembly votes to reject the decree within hours and Yoon lifts martial law. No evidence of election manipulation is produced from the raid on the commission.

  5. 2025
    Skripal poisoningGovernment & Intelligence

    The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry, chaired by Lord Hughes, publishes its final report. It concludes that responsibility for the attack lies with the Russian state, that the operation must have been authorised at the highest level, and that those who carried it out bear moral responsibility for Sturgess's death.

  6. 2025
    Biden autopen 'void pardons' claimGovernment & Intelligence

    Fact-checkers again rate the 'terminated' claim false, noting that legal experts across the spectrum say pardons are final and irrevocable and that nothing in the Constitution or law lets one president unilaterally void another's clemency.

Drawn from 1,962 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.