845: Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving

1516: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area, establishing the first Jewish ghetto, in the city’s the Cannaregio district.

1549: The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded

1901: Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia’s first federal election

1912: Captain Robert Falcon Scott, storm-bound in a tent near the South Pole, makes the last entry in his diary “the end cannot be far”

1961: After a four-and-a-half-year trial, Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria

1974: Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi’an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang

1999: Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 10,000 for the first time ever

2022: In a major victory for Ukraine, Russia announces it is withdrawing its badly mauled forces from around Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv

Source: Onthisday.com