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

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

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 (320 km) 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

Source: Onthisday.com