BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 310                 Tuesday, 5 November 2024         Antwerpen		
Out in the Real World
Indian nationalist leader
Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
aka The Apostle of Non-violence


  • 2 October 1869 (+) is born in Porbandar, India.

  • 12 March 1930 (x) leads a 200-mile Salt Satyagraha in defiance of British opposition and the Salt Tax in Ahmedabad, India.

  • 20 September 1932 (x) embarks on a six-day fast as start of a new campaign to improve the lives of untouchables in Pune, India.

  • 8 May 1933 (x) starts his Third Anti-Untouchability Fast, for the improvement of Harijans' condition in Pune, India.

  • 30 January 1948 (-) is assassinated by 38-year-old extremist Hindu Nathuram Godse in New Delhi, India.


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