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This is the date that Mahatma Gandhi is born.
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Gandhi was married at age 13 to Kasturbai Makhanji. This was an arragned marriage, as was the norm in India at the time.
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Mahatma Gandhi was rejected from a train in South Africa, This event started Gandhi's global fight for rights, specifically for Indian Rights in Africa.
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Mahatma Gandhi, feeling that Indian needed a central body to organize and follow up through the peoples plans, founded the NIC, out of deference to Dadabhi Naoroji.