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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.
- 1911Torreón massacreSecret Societies & Power
The revolutionary agitator Jesús C. Flores delivers a speech inciting the crowd against the Chinese, charging that they control the gardening and grocery trades, take jobs from Mexican women, and send too much money back to China. The “takeover” conspiracy is now open incitement to violence.
- 1988Ouvéa cave massacreGovernment & Intelligence
At dawn, French forces launch Operation Victor, storming the cave with roughly seventy commandos and special police. In the roughly hour-long assault two soldiers, Régis Pedrazza and Jean-Yves Véron, and 19 Kanak militants are killed. The hostages are freed unharmed.
- 1993West Memphis ThreeUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances
Three eight-year-old boys, Christopher Byers, Steve Branch, and Michael Moore, fail to return home in West Memphis, Arkansas. Their families report them missing and a search begins.
Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.