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Encyclopaedia Britannica | On This Day
October 02
Mahatma Gandhi

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Indian leader
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Charles Darwin

FEATURED EVENT

1836

Charles Darwin's return to England
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