Mahatma Gandhi, is assassinated on January 30, 1948 at age 78, following a prayer vigil in New Delhi.in the compound of The Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti).
His killer was Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a Hindu nationalist fanatic and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary organization, who believed Gandhi had been too conciliatory to the Indian subcontinent's large Muslim minority.