Mahatma Gandhi was released from prison after two years into his six-year sentence.
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The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster killed twenty-three people.
The vice president of Google, Susan Wojcicki, became the CEO of YouTube.
The Comic Relief charity created ''Red Nose Day" in the United Kingdom, and raised £15 million ($19 million).
A nuclear bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, US.
The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.