Following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahatma_Gandhi" id="mw5g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi">assassination of Mahatma Gandhi</a> in his home compound, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" id="mw5w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="India">India</a>'s prime minister, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Jawaharlal Nehru</a>, broadcasts to the nation, saying "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_light_has_gone_out_of_our_lives" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The light has gone out of our lives">The light has gone out of our lives</a>".<sup about="#mwt101" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_30#cite_note-18" id="mw6g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw6w">[18]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt105" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"}}' id="cite_ref-19" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_30#cite_note-19" id="mw7A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 19;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw7Q">[19]</span></a></sup> The date of the assassination becomes observed as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs'_Day_(India)" id="mw7g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Martyrs' Day (India)">Martyrs' Day</a>" in India.
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt98" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFJawaharlal_Nehru1958">Jawaharlal Nehru (1958). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DhROAQAAMAAJ" id="mwBxI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBxM">Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches: Sept. 1946-May 1949</i></a>. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. p.<span id="mwBxQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>31.</cite><span about="#mwt98" class="Z3988" id="mwBxU" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Jawaharlal+Nehru%27s+Speeches%3A+Sept.+1946-May+1949&amp;rft.pages=31&amp;rft.pub=Publications+Division%2C+Ministry+of+Information+and+Broadcasting%2C+Government+of+India&amp;rft.date=1958&amp;rft.au=Jawaharlal+Nehru&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DDhROAQAAMAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+30"></span></span>