Today in History: The US stock market crashes, leading to the Great Recession in 2008

Here are some of the major events that happened in history on September 29:

61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.

1364 – During the Hundred Years’ War, Anglo-Breton forces defeat the Franco-Breton army in Brittany, ending the War of the Breton Succession.

1714 – The Cossacks of the Tsardom of Russia kill about 800 people overnight in Hailuoto during the Great Wrath.

1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.

1918 – Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica ending its participation in World War I.

1923 – The Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.

1941 – During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.

1975 – WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.

2008 – The stock market crashes after the first United States House of Representatives vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act fails during the beginning stages of the Great Recession.

2013 – Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.