Food was often placed near MacSwiney to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October he fell into a coma. His body lay in St George's Cathedral where 30.000 people filed past it. (25 October 1920)
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Tuesday 15th of November 1949 (-) — Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi Nathuram Godse is executed by hanging. Godse was hanged along with 39-year-old co-conspirator Narayan Apte.