1930 in India
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March 2 - Mohandas Gandhi informs British viceroy of India that civil disobedience would begin nine days later
March 8 - The Followers of Mohandas Gandhi adopt a resolution declaring that they will achieve self-governance for India, despite the risk of imprisonment by the British Colonial Authorities.
March 12 - Mohandas Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt - more will join them during the Salt March that ends in April 5.
May 4/May 5 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested again.
December 28 - Mohandas Gandhi leaves for Britain for negotiations
Births
January 23 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
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