February 2026

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CIA Releases Declassified Files Detailing Domestic Surveillance Activities
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Player Repeatedly Scores for Opponent in 1978 College Game
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CIA Acknowledges Cold War LSD Experiments on Civilians
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Pentagon Acknowledges Missing Radioactive Source from 1989
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Landmark 1974 Lawsuit Marks First Documented U.S. Case Over Nonconsensual Human Experimentation
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Man regains consciousness during his own autopsy, later dies in hospital
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First Confirmed Case of Cloning Fraud Exposed in 2002
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First Televised Autopsy Airs, Stirring Debate in 1975
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Pentagon Says 1980 Alarm Was an Accidental Nuclear Detonation Scare
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CIA Releases Details of Secret Detention Sites
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FBI Admits Errors in High-Profile 1991 Murder Inquiry
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Vatican Issues First Official Statement on Extraterrestrial Life
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Pentagon Publishes Declassified Cold War Bunker Blueprints
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Oscar Pistorius fatally shoots Reeva Steenkamp at home on Valentine’s Day 2013
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FBI Opens Files on Watergate Informants
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FBI Releases Files Related to Tupac Shakur
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FBI Releases Files on Marilyn Monroe’s Death, Revealing Investigative Notes and Unredacted Records
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Dale Earnhardt Sr. killed in last-lap crash at 2001 Daytona 500
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FBI Releases Files on Jack Ruby
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Vatican Opens World War II Archives to Scholars
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1998 Miami Case Revealed as First Documented Organ Trafficking Investigation
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CIA Releases Cold War 'Killing' Manuals from 1950s–1970s
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1995 case helps define 'false memory syndrome' in public debate
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Florida man allegedly tried to rob store with an alligator
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First successful robotic-assisted surgery performed in 1985
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FBI Confirms Wiretaps of Journalists in 1976 Disclosure
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Olympic Medalist Later Revealed to Be an Impostor
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House Collapses Into Sinkhole, Swallowing Bedroom

Posts for February 12, 2026

The exterior of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences building in Vatican City under soft daylight, with St. Peter’s Basilica visible in the background.
02/12/2008 • 31 views
Vatican Issues First Official Statement on Extraterrestrial Life
Year: 2008
 Interior view of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences meeting hall at the Vatican, empty lectern and rows of chairs with papal flags and classical architecture visible.
02/12/2008 • 35 views
Vatican Issues First Official Statement on Extraterrestrial Life (2008)
Year: 2008
 A nondescript courthouse exterior with a small group of people nearby and a parked federal vehicle, conveying legal proceedings and institutional review.
02/12/2002 • 23 views
FBI Confirms Wrongful Conviction in High-Profile 2002 Case
Year: 2002
 Exterior view of the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, in the early 1970s, with low-rise institutional buildings and vehicles of the era parked outside.
02/12/1972 • 36 views
FBI Forms Behavioral Science Unit to Study Violent Crime
Year: 1972
 Early 1960s hospital or clinic corridor with a scattering of medical files and a vintage drug bottle labeled generically; absent patients, suggesting regulatory and medical concern.
02/12/1962 • 27 views
FDA Withdraws Thalidomide After Link to Birth Defects Emerges
Year: 1962
 Pharmacy counter from the early 1960s with glass medicine bottles, paper leaflets, and a regulatory notice on a bulletin board—no identifiable faces.
02/12/1962 • 26 views
FDA Refuses Approval for Thalidomide After Link to Birth Defects Emerges
Year: 1962
 Postwar-era soccer match at a modest stadium with referee flipping a coin at midfield as players and officials watch; overcast sky, 1950s-style kit and no visible sponsor logos.
02/12/1954 • 26 views
Referee Decides 1954 Match by Coin Toss After Rule Dispute
Year: 1954
 A 1930s Polish village street at dusk with clustered wooden houses and villagers gathered outside, under muted winter light.
02/12/1938 • 20 views
1938 Reported Mass Hallucination in a Polish Village
Year: 1938
 Rural New Jersey roadside with winter trees and an unpaved lane near Hopewell, NJ, c.1932; somber, sparse scene suggesting the area where the child’s body was found.
02/12/1932 • 23 views
Charles Lindbergh’s Baby Found Murdered in 1932
Year: 1932
 A 1920s prison execution chamber with an electric chair, officials in period attire, and barred windows; somber, historically accurate scene without identifiable faces.
02/12/1928 • 19 views
First Woman Executed in Electric Chair: 1928 Case Marks a Grim Milestone
Year: 1928
 Early 20th-century cotton mill exterior in a small New England town with workers gathered outside; snow on the ground and plain industrial buildings visible.
02/12/1913 • 12 views
1913 Dalton Mill Panic: an early U.S. factory hysteria episode
Year: 1913
 Early 20th-century textile mill interior with rows of machines, factory floor crowded with women workers in period workwear, steam pipes and large windows; atmosphere tense with a small cluster of workers gathered and a few seated or fainting.
02/12/1913 • 19 views
1913 Dalton Mill Panic: an early factory hysteria episode
Year: 1913
 Early 20th-century factory floor with rows of machines and workers in period clothing, showing a crowded industrial interior and a tense atmosphere.
02/12/1913 • 19 views
Factory Fits: A Documented Episode of Collective Hysteria, 12 February 1913
Year: 1913
 Late-19th-century Paris theater interior with audience members in period dress reacting in alarm; gas lighting, balconies, and stage curtain visible.
02/12/1894 • 13 views
1894 Paris Theater Panic Often Cited as First Mass Hypnosis Case
Year: 1894
 Late 19th-century Parisian theater interior with a crowded audience showing mixed reactions—some slumped or attended to—lit by gas or early electric lighting; stage and performers visible in the background.
02/12/1894 • 21 views
An 1894 Parisian Theater Panic Often Cited as the First Mass Hypnosis Case
Year: 1894
 A mid-19th-century public mesmerism demonstration in a modest lecture hall: a practitioner performing hand passes over a seated volunteer while an audience watches from benches and standing room.
02/12/1846 • 19 views
Mesmerism Enters the Public Eye: 12 February 1846 Demonstration
Year: 1846
 A 19th-century lecture hall or salon with a presenter demonstrating mesmerism to a seated audience; attendees in period dress observe a volunteer in a fainting or trance-like posture.
02/12/1846 • 21 views
Mesmerism Steps Into the Light: The First Public Hypnosis Demonstration, 12 February 1846
Year: 1846
 A late 16th-century coastal village of wooden longhouses and thatch, visibly abandoned with overturned baskets and unharvested crops, viewed from a low hill under overcast skies.
02/12/1587 • 23 views
The First Documented Disappearance of an Entire Village (1587)
Year: 1587
 Interior of a Vatican library or study with bookshelves, scientific instruments (historic telescope), and ecclesiastical furnishings under soft light, suggesting scholarly discussion of science and theology.
02/12 • 10 views
Vatican Issues First Official Statement on Possibility of Extraterrestrial Life