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Great Depression / Suez Crisis / Malcolm X / ARPANET

On This Day (October 29): Your quick daily trip back in time.

Fatih Taskiran
October 29, 2025

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Good morning — it’s Wednesday, October 29. Today we're diving into the Great Depression, the Suez Crisis, Muhammad Ali's first fight, ARPANET, and much more — quick, crisp, and source-clean.

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🚀 Time Machine

-539 BC

Persia's Cyrus the Great marched into Babylon, freeing Jewish captives and allowing them to return home.

-1268

Conradin, the last legitimate heir to the German Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed by Charles I of Sicily

-1665

Portuguese forces defeat Kongo and decapitate King António I, also known as Nvita a Nkanga, in the Battle of Mbwila.

-1929

Investors traded 16,410,030 shares on Wall Street on "Black Tuesday," which triggered the Great Depression.

-1956

Israeli forces push into Egypt toward the Suez Canal, starting the Suez Crisis.

-1960

Muhammad Ali beat Tunney Hunsaker on points in 6 rounds in his first professional fight in Freedom Hall.

-1965

Nine months after his assassination, The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published.

-1965

UCLA researchers sent the first electronic message via ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, to Stanford Research Institute.

-2015

The Chinese government ended the one-child policy, the most extreme state birth control project in history, after 35 years.

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