On this day in conspiracies

In the election held a week after the fire, the Nazis increase their vote but still fall short of a majority on their own. With Communist deputies barred or jailed under the decree, the party nonetheless commands the Reichstag.

NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria sends Stalin a memo proposing that the imprisoned Poles, described as hardened counter-revolutionaries, be shot. The Politburo order approving the execution of up to 25,700 prisoners is signed the same day by Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, and (by proxy) Kaganovich and Kalinin.

Stalin dies. The planned show trial and the terror expected to follow it never take place, and the machinery behind the case immediately begins to reverse.

Lansdale asks the Joint Chiefs of Staff for 'a brief but precise description of pretexts' that could justify direct US military intervention in Cuba.

At a briefing in Anchorage, the FAA releases an unusually complete public package on the case: air traffic control transcripts, crew and controller statements, a flight-path chart, and roughly 150 pages of radar printouts, while restating the split-return finding.

Hours before the government announces Chavez has died of cancer at 58, Vice President Nicolas Maduro asserts that the country's 'historical enemies' inoculated the president with his illness, and expels two US military attaches.

A forensic team commissioned by Nisman's ex-wife, federal judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, publicly concludes he was murdered, disputing the suicide hypothesis and the handling of the scene. The finding is a privately commissioned expert opinion, not yet an official ruling, but it fuels national doubt about the suicide framing.

A Lancet study by researchers at Brown University and Harvard Medical School finds that after the September 2025 White House briefing, pediatric leucovorin prescriptions rose roughly 71% above expected levels (up about 93% in the first month), with around 72% written for children with autism diagnoses, despite no new trial data or guideline change in that window.

The Catholic exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger appears on the Shawn Ryan Show for a long interview in which he argues that "if you strip the veneer of the alien aspect off," abduction scenarios are demons at work, listing ways in which reported abductions mirror possession while allowing that some UFO sightings are mundane or government experiments.