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1997 Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72

1995 Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, dies at 68

1994 Ernest Clark, actor (Pope Must Die, Gandhi), dies at 82

1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46

1991 Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46

1990 Ian Charleson, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40

1989 India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns

1986 Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi

1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

1985 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India

1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai

1984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira

1984 Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections

1984 Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India

1984 Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated

1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at 66

1984 Indira Gandhi, India PM, killed by her bodyguards

1984 Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site, Golden Temple

1983 55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi," Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep win

1983 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET and Tootsie win

1982 Indian PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years

1980 Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, dies

1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India

1978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail

1978 Indira Gandhi ambushed in India

1977 Indira Gandhi arrested

1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India

1977 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India

1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency

1970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)

1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister

1949 Ian Charleson, Edinburgh Scotland, actor, Gandhi, Chariots of Fire

1948 Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated in New Delhi

1948 Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

1948 Mahatma Gandhi, India's pacifist, assassinated

1948 Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast

1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali

1944 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 1984-89

1944 Gandhi freed from prison

1943 Ben Kingsley, Scarborough England, actor, Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice

1942 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress

1936 Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party

1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience

1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables

1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru

1931 Gandhi and British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact

1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax

1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India

1927 Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi

1925 Richard Vernon, born in England, actor, Servant, Gandhi, Hard Days Night

1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail

1923 Richard Attenborough, England, actor and director, Gandhi, Young Winston

1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison

1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience

1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act

1917 Indira Gandhi, Allahabad India, Indian PM, 1966-77, 1980-84

1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa

1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa

1869 Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader



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