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Good morning! It’s Thursday, October 29. Today we're diving into the Great Depression, the Suez Crisis, Walter Raleigh's execution, Muhammad Ali's first fight, ARPANET, and much more!
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🚀 Time Machine
-539 BC
King Cyrus "the Great" of Persia enters Babylon, freeing Jewish captives and letting them return home.
-1268
Charles I of Sicily executes Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the German Hohenstaufen kings and Holy Roman Emperors, with Frederick I, Margrave of Baden
-1618
English adventurer, writer, and courtier Walter Raleigh is executed for allegedly conspiring against King James I of England.
-1665
Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbwila and decapitate King António I (Nvita a Nkanga).
-1929
Investors traded 16,410,030 shares on Wall Street on "Black Tuesday," which triggered the Great Depression.
-1955
Almost a month after actor James Dean died in a car crash at 24, Warner Bros. Pictures released his second major film, Rebel Without a Cause.
-1956
Israeli forces invade Egypt toward the Suez Canal, starting the Suez Crisis.
-1960
Muhammad Ali defeats Tunney Hunsaker by points over 6 rounds in his first professional fight at Freedom Hall.
-1965
Nine months after his assassination, The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published.
-1968
UCLA researchers sent the first electronic message via ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, to Stanford Research Institute.
-2015
China ends its one-child policy, the most extreme state birth control program in history, after 35 years.
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📸 Snapshot
An unemployed man during the 1930s Great Depression.
🗨️ Last Words
“Better to suffer and to die than to lose one shade of my moral and political character.”
