Mahatma Gandhi was released from prison after two years into his six-year sentence.
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The world's largest golden nugget was discovered.
The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster killed twenty-three people.
The House of Commons voted in favor of same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom.
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, arrived from England in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to become a minister in a Boston church.
The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
