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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. 1922
    The Hinterkaifeck MurdersUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances

    Alarmed that the family has not been seen (the elder Cäzilia missed church, the girl missed school, the post went uncollected), neighbors including Lorenz Schlittenbauer enter the farm. Four bodies are found in the barn, partly covered with hay and a door; the maid and the toddler Josef are found in their beds in the house.

  2. 1953
    The Doctors' plotSecret Societies & Power

    Pravda announces that the case has been reviewed and the charges found to be fabricated: the doctors are innocent, their 'confessions' were obtained by 'impermissible' methods, meaning torture, and the survivors are released and rehabilitated. Lidiya Timashuk is stripped of the honors she had been given.

  3. 1968
    MLK assassinationGovernment & Intelligence

    King is shot on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis at about 6:01 p.m. and dies within the hour. A bundle containing a Remington .30-06 rifle with James Earl Ray's fingerprints is found in a doorway near the rooming house across the street.

  4. 1968
    MSG scareScience, Space & Technology

    The New England Journal of Medicine prints a short letter from Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok describing numbness at the back of the neck, weakness, and palpitations after meals at American Chinese restaurants. Kwok floats several possible causes, including cooking wine, high sodium, and the MSG used in the food. The editors headline it 'Chinese-Restaurant Syndrome', and the name sticks far more firmly than any of Kwok's tentative explanations.

  5. 2015
    Blood moon prophecyDoomsday & Prophecy

    The third eclipse, again on Passover, is a brief total eclipse. Coverage increasingly pairs the prophecy with the plain astronomical explanation and notes that most of these eclipses are not visible from Israel.

  6. 2018
    Cambridge AnalyticaGovernment & Intelligence

    Facebook discloses that the data of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, far above the firm's own claim of about 30 million. Roughly 70.6 million of the affected users were in the United States.

  7. 2019
    Easter 2019 'grand plot'Government & Intelligence

    Indian intelligence passes Sri Lanka a specific warning of imminent attacks on churches, naming the local group and its leader. Further alerts follow in the days before Easter. The warnings are documented but not acted upon at the top of the security establishment.

  8. 2020
    5G caused COVID-19Science, Space & Technology

    At the UK government's daily briefing, NHS England national medical director Stephen Powis calls the 5G-coronavirus story 'complete and utter rubbish' and 'the worst kind of fake news,' stressing that mobile networks are vital infrastructure for the NHS and emergency services.

  9. 2022
    Bucha massacre 'staged' claimGovernment & Intelligence

    President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Bucha and calls the killings genocide. The same day, The New York Times and AFP publish satellite analyses showing the bodies had lain in the streets for weeks. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calls the scene a 'staged performance.'

  10. 2025
    S. Korea 2024 election fraudGovernment & Intelligence

    The Constitutional Court unanimously upholds the impeachment and removes Yoon from office, finding the martial law declaration unconstitutional and its stated justifications, the election-fraud premise among them, unsupported.

Drawn from 1,951 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.