On this day in history ...........................
By TheBoldAge. Published 2021-01-04
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Gandhi was arrested in 1932 and his National Congress of India declared illegal by the British administration.In 1961 the longest recorded strike ended, when the Danish barbers' assistants called a truce to their 33 year strikeDonald Campbell, who was the 46 year old son of Sir Malcolm Campbell, died in his attempt to break his own world water speed record on Coniston Water in the Lake District in 1967. In 1972 Rose Heilbron became Britain’s first woman judge at the Old Bailey.
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