1 Gandhi's birthday, October 2, is celebrated by the UN as an Interntional Day of Non- Violence.
2 He was given the honoriffic title Mahatma(Sanskit for great soul) in SOuth Africa in 1914.
3 Gandhi was married at the age of 13 and had four sons before taking a vow of celibacy.
4 Gandhi was not the only leader to meet his end on January 30; that was also the date of beheading of Charles in 1649.
5 "Live as if you are to die tomorrow, Learn as if you were to live forever ____ GAUDHI.
6 Gaudhi studied law at the Inner Temple in London, where his teachers often complained about his bad handwriting.
7 Globally, there are more than 100 roads named after Gandhi of which over half are in India.
8 Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha is based on the life and Ideas of Gandhi and is in Sanskrit. It can be seen at the English National Opera from Thursday this week.
9 He wrote to hltler in 1939 urging non-violence starting "Dear friend, Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity''.
10 Gaudhi's funeral of procession was five miles long.
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