On this day in conspiracies

Declared a hazard to navigation after days of pounding surf, the abandoned hull of the Carroll A. Deering is destroyed with dynamite to keep it from endangering other vessels.

Former interior minister Yuriy Kravchenko is found dead from two gunshot wounds to the head at his home, hours before he is due to give testimony in the Gongadze case. The death is officially ruled a suicide, a conclusion many in Ukraine openly doubt.

Sergei and Yulia Skripal are found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury city centre. Both are critically ill. Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, who attends the scene, is also hospitalised. Investigators later determine a nerve agent had been applied to the front door handle of Skripal's home.

Russian forces occupy Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kyiv, and hold the town for roughly a month. Residents later describe checkpoints, house-to-house 'cleansing' sweeps, detentions, and killings during this period.

Paparazzi photograph Catherine in a car near Windsor with her mother, the first sighting since surgery. Rather than settling speculation, the distant, low-quality image feeds it, and social-media users begin questioning whether the woman pictured is really her.