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 — Under the plague regulations, soldiers searched homes and removed sick people. The Chapekar brothers shot W. C. Rand, the plague commissioner. Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s newspaper Kesari had attacked the searches; Tilak was sentenced to eighteen months for sedition, served about a year, and emerged as a national figure.
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— Armistice at Compiègne
22 Jun 1940 — At Compiègne, France signs an armistice in the railway carriage where Germany’s 1918 surrender was signed.
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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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