Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
Gandhi was taking part in afternoon prayers when Nathuram Godse shot him point-blank.
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South Korea's first launch vehicle successfully reached orbit for the first time.
The US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, closed due to increasing security concerns.
White supremacist terrorists bombed Martin Luther King Jr's home.
Captain James Cook reached a record 1,130 miles from the South Pole.
Researchers identified the earliest known prehistoric ancestor of humans.
