In 1798, a brawl broke out in the House of Representatives in Philadelphia, as Matthew Lyon of Vermont spat in the face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut.
In 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi, who had led his country to independence from British rule through his philosophy of non-violent confrontation, was murdered by a Hindu extremist. Before dying, Gandhi blessed his assassin.
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Actor John Ireland (1914)
Producer-director Harold Prince (1928)
Actor Gene Hackman (1931)
Actress Tammy Grimes (1934)
Actress Vanessa Redgrave (1937)
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"History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness."
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Will (1885-1981) and Ariel Durant (1898-1981), American historians.