Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
Gandhi was taking part in afternoon prayers when Nathuram Godse shot him point-blank.
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Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.
The US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, closed due to increasing security concerns.
A three-day-long ''dense smog" rolled through London.
Researchers identified the earliest known prehistoric ancestor of humans.
Coronavirus was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO).
