The Beatles were to play their last public concert on the roof of their London recording studio on this day. The police were called because of the noise and proceeded to break the concert up.

John Lennon's final announcement to the crowd was:

"I'd like to say thank you very much on behalf of the group and myself and I hope we passed the audition."

The band formally broke up in April 1970.

On a visit to New Delhi, 'Mahatma' Gandhi was shot by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist who objected to Gandhi's tolerance for Muslims.

Mahatma means 'the great soul'.

Gandhi's peaceful civil disobedience techniques, used so successfully against the British occupation of India, was to inspire civil rights campaigners around the world.