Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated 70 years ago
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948, during a prayer meeting at Delhi's Birla House. He was shot thrice in the chest. "If I'm to die by the bullet of a mad man, I must do so smiling. God must be in my heart and on my lips," Gandhi reportedly said two days before his assassination.