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MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · January 22

THE DAY IN HISTORY · JANUARY 22

January 22 in history

1905 — Bloody Sunday

22 Jan 1905 — Troops fire on a peaceful procession of workers bringing a petition to the Winter Palace; hundreds are killed. The myth of the Tsar as the people’s father dies in an afternoon. A memorial, not a battle.

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