On this day in conspiracies

After Ottoman authority is restored in Syria, Montefiore petitions Sultan Abdülmecid I in Constantinople. The Sultan issues a firman denouncing the blood libel as a baseless slander and banning ritual-murder accusations against Jews throughout the empire, stating their innocence is “evident” and the charge has “not the least foundation in truth.”

Sheriff Marlin Gillespie organizes a search of the rugged forest area involving deputies, volunteers, jeeps, and horses over the following days. No trace of Walton is found. With no body and no explanation, some investigators consider whether the crew might have been involved in his disappearance.

At about 11:35 a.m., roughly 35 armed members of the M-19 guerrilla group storm the Palace of Justice on Bogota's Plaza de Bolivar, entering through the basement and seizing the building with hundreds of people inside, including Supreme Court and Council of State magistrates. The guerrillas declare they intend to put President Belisario Betancur on trial.

Businessman Donald Trump, later US president, posts that ‘the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive’, a widely shared expression of the ‘hoax’ framing.

In the early hours, around 4 a.m. in the eastern U.S., a wave of spiritually-inclined users later say they woke abruptly, 'emotionally flooded,' some with a sinking certainty that Trump would win and others with an unshakable feeling that Harris had actually won. This shared 4 a.m. waking becomes the founding story of the movement.

The Kurunegala Magistrate's Court, acting on advice from the Attorney General's Department that there was no evidence to proceed, acquits Dr. Shafi of all charges and lifts the travel ban against him. The exoneration closes a five-year ordeal built on a claim that was never substantiated.