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War of Religion / Hamlet / Stacy Allison / Tylenol Murders

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

Fatih Taskiran
September 29, 2025

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Good morning. It's Monday, September 29. Today, we're going to the War of Religion, the Babi Yar massacre, the Hamlet movie, the worst day for Dow Jones, and more — buckle up!.

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🚀 Time Machine

-522 BC

King Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his rule.

-480 BC

Greek fleet, under Themistocles, defeats the Persian fleet, led by Xerxes I, at the Battle of Salamis.

-1567

The War of Religion starts in France as Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX.

-1918

Allied forces breached the Hindenburg Line after a 56-hour bombing, the last German defense on the Western Front in World War I.

-1829

London's first modern police force, the London Metropolitan Police, arrives on the streets.

-1941

The Babi Yar massacre of nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women, and children begins in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.

-1948

"Hamlet," directed and starring Laurence Olivier, premieres at Park Avenue Cinema. (Best Picture 1949)

-1982

Three Chicago residents died from cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol, marking the first of seven victims.

-1988

Stacy Allison of Woodburn, Oregon, becomes the first American woman to summit Mount Everest, the world's highest point, at 29,035 feet.

-2008

After the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, the Dow Jones dropped 777.68 points, its biggest single-day point loss ever.

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