THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 22
June 22 in history
What happened on June 22: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1897, 1940 and 1941, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Poona plague and Rand’s assassination
22 Jun 1897 — As soldiers searched homes and removed the sick under the plague regulations, the Chapekar brothers shot the plague commissioner, W. C. Rand. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, whose newspaper Kesari had attacked the searches, was sentenced to eighteen months for sedition, served about a year, and became a national figure.
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— Armistice at Compiègne
22 Jun 1940 — France signs in the same railway carriage used for Germany’s 1918 surrender.
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Barbarossa: 3.6 million men invade the USSR on a 2,900 km front — the largest invasion ever mounted, on the exact anniversary of France’s 1940 armistice.
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