March 12

Mahatma Gandhi, the father Indian independence set out from the Sabarmati Ashram on the 12th in 1930 with 78 followers and began a march to the sea to protest the British Empires imposition of a tax on salt and a prohibition of its manufacture. The march took 23 days and when he finally arrived at the seashore; his group had grown into the thousands. Once at the waters edge, Gandhi picked up a small bit of mud and salt and proclaimed, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Then he and his followers began to make salt. I hope everyone is aware of what happened after that.