- After his death India went into mourning for 13 days.
- His own interpretation of the Seven Deadly Sins were: Wealth without Work, Pleasure without Conscience, Science without Humanity, Knowledge without Character, Politics without Principle, Commerce without Morality, and Worship without Sacrifice.
- The title "Mahatma" (meaning "great-souled") was given to him in 1915 by his friend Rabindranath Tagore. He never accepted the title because he considered himself unworthy of it.
- He died at 5:20 pm after being shot in the chest by Nathuram Godse, at Birla House in New Delhi.
- After his assassination Albert Einstein said: "Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth!".
- Pictured on 2 US postage stamps (4¢, 8¢) in the Champions of Liberty series, issued 26 December 1961.
- He is referred to as 'the father of the Nation' in India.
- The railway station at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa is named in his honor (Mahatma Gandhi Station) because it was here that in 1891 he was unceremoniously thrown out of a first class train compartment just for being a colored person. This was his first experience of racism and became a turning point in his life.
- He used to write letters to Lev Tolstoy, with whom he was friends. He even named his ashram in his honor - Tolstoy Farm.
- Gandhi had spent a total of 2,338 days (over 6 years) in jail as a political prisoner during his lifetime.
- Worked as a lawyer before turning to activism.
- Gandhi was a veteran of two British Empire wars - the Second Boer War (1899-1902) and the Bambatha Rebellion (1906), where he helped in organizing the transport of wounded soldiers on stretchers.
- His birthday (October 2nd) is celebrated as a national holiday in India and is called 'Gandhi Jayanthi'.
- His famous last words were "He Ram!" (O God!). There are Christian YouTube compilations that try to claim he said something Atheist and Sacrilegeous, but these are made by people who do not realise that he died suddenly.
- On 12th March, 1930 Gandhi along with his followers started a 386 km (241 mile) march from Ahmedabad to Dandi, on the banks of the Arabian Sea. He was protesting the taxes levied by the British Raj on salt and decided that he would make his own salt from the sea. He reached his destination after 24 days on 6th April, 1930. This event became known the world over as 'The Dandi March' or 'Salt Satyagraha'.
- The father of the 'father of the nation' was Karamchand Gandhi and his mother was Putalibai.
- There are several major roads in most of the larger metropolitan cities in India named in his honour, as M.G. Road (short for Mahatma Gandhi).
- He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times between 1937 and 1948. After his death the Nobel Committee publicly declared its regret for never awarding him the Prize. When the The Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989, the chairman of the committee said that this was "in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi".
- Between 1934 and 1948, there had been four attempts on his life including one just ten days before his death.
- His assassins died by hanging, even though Gandhi had opposed capital punishment throughout his lifetime.
- Was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind (Emperor of India) gold medal in 1915 for distinguished service to the British Raj. In 1920, he returned the medal to protest the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
- Mentioned in "On Board the Patagonian Express" by Paul Theroux.
- He was strongly opposed to World War II, as the British were officially fighting for the independence of Poland while not allowing India to have its own independence.
- Time Magazine's Person of the Year. (1930)
- Had 4 sons - Harilal (b. 1888), Manilal (b. 1892), Ramdas (b. 1897) and Devdas (b. 1900).
- He had 2 elder brothers (Laxmidas & Karsandas) and one younger sister (Raliatbehn).
- He was imprisoned by the British 4 times as a political prisoner.
- There is a district in Houston, Texas, with a high Indian population named after him.
- Lived in South Africa from 1891 to 1914 and started his activism there.
- Launched the Quit India movement in 1942.
- In 1982 a movie made about his life and his struggle against the British occupation of India, Gandhi was portrayed by Ben Kingsley (he won the Oscar for best leading role), the movie Gandhi (1982) was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 8 of them.
- Pictured on a $2.75 United Nations commemorative postage stamp issued 2 October 2019, celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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