After a three-month siege that ended with the storming of the Temple Mount, Pompey the Great walked into the Holy of Holies, a space forbidden to all but the High Priest. His curiosity, rather than plunder, was said to motivate him — he reportedly left the treasures untouched but the violation of the sanctuary shocked Judea and marked Rome's absorption of the region into its sphere of control.
Exhausted by generations of conflict, Milan and Venice negotiated a treaty at Lodi that other major Italian powers soon joined, forming the Italic League. The settlement froze existing borders and established a fragile balance of power across the peninsula, allowing city-states to redirect resources toward the arts and commerce rather than constant warfare — a peace that indirectly helped fuel the flowering of the Renaissance.
Amid a week of panic selling, the Dow plunged 12.8% on this Monday session as margin calls forced investors to dump shares en masse. Coming days after Black Thursday's initial shock, the collapse wiped out fortunes built during the speculative boom of the 1920s and signaled that the crisis was far from contained, deepening a downturn that would spiral into a decade-long global depression.