Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
Gandhi was taking part in afternoon prayers when Nathuram Godse shot him point-blank.
Source
White supremacist terrorists bombed Martin Luther King Jr's home.
A three-day-long ''dense smog" rolled through London.
Patsy Cline released her single 'I Fall to Pieces.'
The US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, closed due to increasing security concerns.
Researchers identified the earliest known prehistoric ancestor of humans.