On This Day in History
March 12
Historical Events
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
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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
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Famous Birthdays
Also Tammy Duckworth (57) and Darryl Strawberry (63)
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Famous Deaths
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Wave of Doubt over Britannia
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The composer who put "Rule, Britannia!" to music was born on this day, but the original words are not quite what they bellow out at the Last Night of the Proms.
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