Short answers, pulled from the story.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on the 2nd of October 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula. He was born into a family where his father served as the chief minister of Porbandar and later Rajkot.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi went to South Africa after a Muslim merchant named Dada Abdullah offered him a one-year commitment to represent a cousin in a lawsuit. He spent the next 21 years in South Africa developing the political views and ethics that would eventually lead India to independence.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and his followers began a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to Dandi on the 12th of March 1930 to make salt and break the salt laws. The campaign lasted until the 6th of April 1930 and succeeded in upsetting the British, who responded by imprisoning at least 60,000 people.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse by firing three bullets into his chest at an interfaith prayer meeting in Delhi on the 30th of January 1948. The assassination occurred after Gandhi began his last hunger strike on the 12th of January 1948 to stop religious violence in Punjab and Bengal.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi conducted experiments with abstinence from sex and food starting in 1906 at the age of 37. In the final year of his life, he asked his grandniece Manu and Abha, the wife of his grandnephew Kanu, to help him test their purity by sleeping with them.