April 5, 1930
In what is known as the Salt March, Mohandas Gandhi and his followers reached the end of their 240 mile march to the Indian Ocean coast at Dandi. He had left his ashram with 78 satyagrahis; the procession grew over the 23 days of traveling on foot until it stretched for more than two miles. When they arrived at the seaside, Gandhi made salt by allowing seawater to evaporate. This simple task was an act of civil disobedience because the British Raj, the governing colonial authority, had made salt-making a monopoly and a crime for others.
