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 general interest family magazine Reader's Digest was first published.
The Comic Relief charity created ''Red Nose Day" in the United Kingdom, and raised £15 million ($19 million).
The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster killed twenty-three people.
A nuclear bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, US.
