On This Day in History |
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 | Vikings lay siege to Paris in 845 AD |
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845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. |
1901 Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first parliamentary 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 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria. |
 | The Terracotta army standing guarding at the tomb of China's 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang |
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1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statuesburied to guard the tomb of China's 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang. |
1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 and above the 10,000 mark for the first time in its history. |
2022 In a major victory for Ukraine, Russia announces it is withdrawing its badly mauled forces from around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. |
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Also Georges Seurat. |
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John Jacob Astor made a staggering fortune by monopolizing the American fur trade, but his methods – ruthless and sometimes illegal – have drawn criticism. |
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