On this day:
1918: Following Revolution of 1917, Moscow replaces St. Petersburg as Russia’s capital
1930: Mahatma Gandhi embarks on his Salt March
1938: Hitler invades Austria
Born on this day:
1864: W. H. R. Rivers: English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, psychiatrist
Gone on this day:
1914: George Westinghouse, American engineer, inventor of railway air brake
