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Associated Press Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.) On this date: In 1862, the ironclad USS Monitor was launched from the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint, N.Y., during the Civil War. In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. In 1948, aviation pioneer Orville Wright, 76, died in Dayton. In 1968, the Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise a...