On this day in conspiracies

During interrogation over the following days, Biko sustains serious head injuries. The exact sequence is disputed by the officers themselves, but medical evidence later shows the trauma occurred while he was in Security Branch custody.

Five trading days before the attacks, the volume of put options on UAL Corporation, parent of United Airlines, surges far above its normal level on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. United 175 and United 93 will be hijacked on 11 September.

During a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Bolsonaro is stabbed in the abdomen while being carried on supporters' shoulders. Adelio Bispo de Oliveira is seized at the scene. Bolsonaro is rushed to the Santa Casa de Misericordia, where surgeons operate to stop internal bleeding.

Ronan Farrow reports in The New Yorker that the MIT Media Lab had a deeper fund-raising relationship with Epstein than acknowledged and worked to conceal it, routing and anonymizing gifts and, staff said, referring to him internally as 'Voldemort.' Director Joi Ito resigns within a day.

A screenshot of the deleted post, together with an unrelated image, circulates on X and in far-right and neo-Nazi online communities, reframed as proof that Haitian immigrants are eating pets. The claim is boosted by accounts that had been promoting anti-immigrant content in Springfield for weeks.