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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.
- 1900Flannan Isles lighthouseUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances
Principal Keeper James Ducat, Second Assistant Thomas Marshall, and Occasional Keeper Donald MacArthur (a local man standing in for the regular assistant, who was on sick leave) are the three men on duty. Relief keeper Joseph Moore is ashore on Lewis.
- 1941Pearl Harbor foreknowledgeGovernment & Intelligence
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor without a declaration of war, sinking or damaging 19 ships and killing more than 2,400 Americans.
- 1941Battle of Los AngelesUFOs & Aliens
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brings the United States into the war and leaves the Pacific coast braced for an invasion or air raid. Blackouts, air-raid drills, and rumors of enemy planes and submarines become routine along the California shore.
- 2022Reichsbürger ideologySecret Societies & Power
Some 3,000 officers raid about 150 properties across 11 federal states, arresting 25 people (27 are eventually charged) linked to a group nicknamed the Patriotic Union. Prosecutors allege a plot to storm the Bundestag, arrest lawmakers, and install the aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss as head of state.
Drawn from 1,967 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.