On this day in conspiracies

Karl Harrer, tasked by the Thule Society with reaching Munich workers, joins the locksmith Anton Drexler in founding the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP), the German Workers' Party. This is the society's most consequential documented link to what becomes Nazism.

A user called 'IlluminatiPirate' posts 'Dead Internet Theory: Most Of The Internet Is Fake' to Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe forum, synthesizing earlier imageboard posts into the named theory's foundational text.

A door plug blows out of an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 in mid-air. The incident reopens intense public scrutiny of Boeing's manufacturing and quality culture, and gives whistleblowers' earlier warnings fresh prominence in the news.

In a further investigative update, the FBI reports that the attacker had traveled to New Orleans on prior occasions to conduct surveillance and had used a camera device to record the area, reinforcing the finding of a single planner acting on ISIS-inspired intent rather than a cell.

Maduro and Flores are arraigned in a Manhattan federal court and plead not guilty. Maduro tells the court he considers himself Venezuela's president and a prisoner of war. The same period sees Vice President Delcy Rodríguez installed as Venezuela's acting head of state.