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22 June in Hindu history

22 June 1897

Chapekar brothers shoot W. C. Rand at Pune

On the night of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Damodar and Balkrishna Chapekar shoot the plague commissioner Rand, whose soldiers had searched homes and shrines. All three brothers were hanged.

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