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
1951-Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1994-The Church of England ordains its first 32 female priests at the Bristol Cathedral in Bristol, England
Source: Korea Times News
