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

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Movie star James Stewart promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years

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