538: Witiges, King of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome, retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of victorious Byzantine General Belisarius

1455: First record of Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before

1918: Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia’s capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow

1930: Mahatma Gandhi begins his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax

1994: The Church of England ordains its first 32 female priests at the Bristol Cathedral in Bristol, England [1]

Source: Onthisday.com