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On this day in conspiracies
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- 19701973 Chile coupGovernment & Intelligence
Socialist candidate Salvador Allende wins a plurality in Chile's presidential election. Because no candidate won a majority, the Chilean Congress must confirm the result in an October vote, opening a seven-week window U.S. officials move to exploit.
- 19991999 apartment bombingsGovernment & Intelligence
A truck bomb destroys part of an apartment building housing Russian military families in Buynaksk, Dagestan, killing 64 people. A second large device nearby is discovered and defused.
- 2017Bell Pottinger 'white monopoly capital'Secret Societies & Power
The Public Relations and Communications Association expels Bell Pottinger for a minimum of five years, its harshest ever sanction, finding the campaign likely to inflame racial discord and in breach of four clauses of its code. Chief executive James Henderson resigns; days later, on 12 September 2017, the firm collapses into administration with the loss of some 250 jobs.
- 2022Pope John Paul I's deathSecret Societies & Power
Pope Francis beatifies John Paul I in St Peter's Square, the last formal step before possible sainthood, following recognition of a miracle attributed to his intercession: the unexplained 2011 recovery of a critically ill girl in Buenos Aires.
Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.