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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.
22 June
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1555 Humayun crossed the Indus and captured Lahore and ousted Sikandar Suri of Delhi throne.
- 1880 Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born in Dibrugarh, Assam.
- 1944 British 14th Army frees Imphal, Assam from the Japanese.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1633 Galileo Galilei forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope (Vatican only admits it was wrong on Oct 31, 1992!).
- 1815 Napoleon abdicated his throne for the second time after his defeat at Waterloo.
- 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The initially successful attack soon proved a disaster for the Germans as wintry conditions and fierce Soviet resistance caused massive losses and ultimately forced them to retreat.
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