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'''1922''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMXXII''') was a
common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
{{Year A}}
January
*
January 7 -
Dáil Éireann, the extra-legal parliament of the
Irish Republic, ratifies the
Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
*
January 8 - The
Socialist Youth League of Norway Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
*
January 10 -
Arthur Griffith is elected
President of Dáil Éireann.
*
January 11 - First successful
insulin treatment of diabetes.
*
January 12 - British government releases remaining Irish prisoners captured in the
Anglo-Irish War War of Independence.
*
January 13 - Flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in
United Kingdom Britain.
*
January 15 -
Michael Collins (Irish leader) Michael Collins becomes
Chairman of the Provisional Government of Southern Ireland Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government.
*
January 24 -
Christian K. Nelson patents the
Eskimo Pie.
*
January 29 - Union of
Costa Rica,
Guatemala,
Honduras and
El Salvador is dissolved
February
*
February 1 -
William Desmond Taylor was murdered.
*
February 2 - ''
Ulysses (novel)'' by
James Joyce is published in
Paris on his fortieth birthday by
Sylvia Beach.
*
February 5 -
DeWitt Wallace DeWitt and
Lila Wallace publish the first issue of ''
Reader's Digest''.
*
February 6 - Achille Ratti becomes
Pope Pius XI.
*
February 6 -
Washington Naval Treaty Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between
United States,
United Kingdom Britain,
Japan,
France, and
Italy
*
February 8 -
President of the United States,
Warren G. Harding introduces the first
radio in the
White House.
*
February 8 -
Cheka becomes
Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie GPU, a section of
NKVD
*
February 14 -
Finland Finnish Minister of the Interior
Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by
Ernst Tandefelt.
*
February 25 - Murderer
Henri Désiré Landru's head is chopped off by the
guillotine.
*
February 27 - A challenge to the
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to
vote, is rebuffed by the
Supreme Court of the United States.
*
February 28 - The
United Kingdom accepts the
independence of
Egypt.
April
*
April 7 -
Teapot Dome scandal:
United States Secretary of the Interior leases
Teapot Dome Petroleum oil reserves in
Wyoming.
*
April 7 - First air collision between
Daimler Airways DH 18 ja
Grands Express Farman Goliat collide over
Poix
*
April 10 - The historic
Genoa Conference commences in
Genoa. The representatives of 34 countries convened to speak about monetary economics in the wake of World War I.
*
April 13 - State of
Massachusetts opens all public offices to women
*
April 16 - The
Treaty of Rapallo, 1922 Treaty of Rapallo marks rapprochement between the
Weimar Republic and
Bolshevist Russia.
May
*
May 5 - In
The Bronx, construction begins on
Yankee Stadium.
*
May 12 - 20-ton
meteorite lands near
Blackstone, Virginia,
USA
*
May 19 -
Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
*
May 29 - British Liberal MP
Horatio Bottomley jailed for 7 years for
fraud
image:Lincoln memorial dc 20041011 095847 1.3008x2000.jpg thumb|250px|The Lincoln memorial, dedicated on May 30th
*
May 30 - In
Washington, D.C., the
Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
June
*
June 1 - Official founding of the
Royal Ulster Constabulary.
*
June 1 -
Bolshevik forces defeat
Asmachi troops under
Enver Pasha
*
June 22 -
Irish Republican Army IRA rebels assassinated British field marshal
Henry Wilson in
Belgravia - assassins are sentenced to death
July 18.
*
June 24 - Assassination of
Weimar Republic foreign minister
Walter Rathenau - murderers are captured
July 17
*
June 26 - Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince
Louis II, Prince of Monaco Louis II of
Monaco.
*
June 28 - The
Irish Civil War begins
August
*
August 12 - Death of
Arthur Griffith,
President of Dáil Éireann
*
August 22 - Death of
Michael Collins (Irish leader) General Michael Collins - President of the Irish Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Army, killed in an ambush.
*
August 23 - Revolt against the Spanish in
Morocco
*
August 28 -
Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from
Siberia
September
*
September 9 - Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter
Smyrna
*
September 11 - One of the ''
Herald Sun'' of
Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' is founded.
*
September 13 -
September 15 15 - Fire, probably started by Turkish troops, destroys most of
Smyrna. Death toll estimated 100,000
*
September 18 -
Hungary joins the
League of Nations
*
September 23 -
Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the
Poland Polish parliament.
October
*
October 9 - Sir
William Horwood (policeman) William Horwood,
London Metropolitan Police Service commissioner is poisoned by
arsenic-filled chocolates
*
October 23 -
Germany German army occupies
Saxony and crushes
Soviet Republic of Saxony
*
October 25 - The
Third Dáil enacts the
Constitution of the Irish Free State.
*
October 28 - In
Italy, with the March on
Rome,
Fascism obtains power and
Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister
*
October 28 -
Red Army occupies
Vladivostok
*
October 31 -
Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of
Italy.
November
*
November 1 -
Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last
sultan Mehmed VI Mehmed VI Vahdettin abdicates.
*
November 1 - The
broadcasting license fee of ten
shillings introduced in the
United Kingdom
*
November 4 - In
Egypt,
United Kingdom British archaeologist
Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King
Tutankhamen's tomb in the
Valley of the Kings.
*
November 14 - The
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins
radio service in the
United Kingdom.
2LO became the first radio station in the United Kingdom.
*
November 17 - Former
Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in
Italy.
*
November 19 -
Abdul Mejid II,
Crown Prince of the
Ottoman Empire is elected
Caliph.
*
November 21 -
Rebecca Felton of
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman
United States Senate United States Senator.
*
November 24 - Popular author and
Irish Republican Army member
Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an
Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
*
November 26 -
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon Howard Carter and
Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of
Egyptian King
Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
Image:Flag of Ireland.svg thumb|250px|Flag of the Irish Free State, and later the Republic of Ireland after independence from the British
December
*
December 5 - British parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new
Constitution of the Irish Free State.
*
December 6 - The
Irish Free State officially comes into existence.
George V of the United Kingdom George V becomes the
Monarchy in the Irish Free State Free State's monarch.
Timothy Michael Healy Tim Healy is appointed first
Governor-General of the Irish Free State and
W.T. Cosgrave becomes
President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State President of the Executive Council.
*
December 14 - Assassination of
Gabriel Narutowicz, the president of
Poland
*
December 30 -
Bolshevist Russia Russia,
Ukraine,
Belarus, and the
Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic come together to form the
Soviet Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Exact month/day of event unknown
*Invention of
Vegemite by Australian
Fred Walker
* ''Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin'', the
Kurdish Independence Committee, founded
*
Ring Magazine first published
*
Molly Pitcher Club formed to promote the
repeal of prohibition in United States
*
Raymond Pearl founds ''Quarterly Review of Biology''.
* Thompson Webb founds
The Webb Schools
Births
January-March
*
January 1 -
Ernest Hollings Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, U.S. Senator from South Carolina
*
January 7 -
Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d.
2000)
*
January 9 -
Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
January 13 -
Albert Lamorisse, French film director (d.
1970)
*
January 16 -
Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer
*
January 17 -
Nicholas Katzenbach, American politician
*January 17 -
Betty White, American television actress
*
January 19 -
Guy Madison, American actor (d.
1996)
*
January 21 -
Paul Scofield, English actor
*
January 22 -
Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician
*
January 24 -
Charles Socarides, M.D.,
psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst (d.
2005)
*
January 28 -
Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1993)
*
January 30 -
Dick Martin, American comedian
*
February 1 -
Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d.
2004)
*
February 6 -
Patrick Macnee, British actor
*February 6 -
Bill Johnston (cricketer) Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer
*February 6 -
Denis Norden, British television and radio scriptwriter and personality
*
February 7 -
Hattie Jacques, British actress (d.
1980)
*
February 9 -
Kathryn Grayson, American actress
*
February 12 -
Tun Hussein Onn, third
Prime Minister of
Malaysia (d.
1990)
*
February 15 -
John Bayard Anderson, U.S Congressman and Presidential candidate
*
February 17 -
Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d.
1959)
*
February 18 -
Helen Gurley Brown, American editor and publisher
*
February 24 -
Richard Hamilton (artist) Richard Hamilton, British painter
*February 24 -
Steven Hill, American actor
*
March 1 -
William Gaines, American publisher of MAD Magazine (d.
1992)
*March 1 -
Yitzhak Rabin,
Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1995)
*
March 5 -
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director
*
March 8 -
Mizuki Shigeru, Japanese author
*
March 9 -
Tommy Cooper, British comedian and magician (d.
1984)
*
March 11 -
Tun Abdul Razak, second
prime minister of
Malaysia (d.
1976)
*
March 12 -
Jack Kerouac, American author (d.
1969)
*March 12 -
Lane Kirkland, American union leader (d.
1999)
*
March 16 -
Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter (''
Another World (TV series) Another World'') and playwright
*
March 18 -
Egon Bahr, German politician
*
March 20 -
Carl Reiner, American film director, producer, actor, and comedian
*
March 21 -
Russ Meyer, American film director and producer (d.
2004)
*
March 27 -
Stefan Wul, French writer (d.
2003)
*
March 28 -
Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (
Quartetto Cetra)
*March 28 -
Joey Maxim, American boxer (d.
2001)
*
March 31 -
Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d.
1999)
April-June
*
April 1 -
William Manchester, American writer (d.
2004)
*
April 3 -
Maurice Riel, Canadian Senator
*
April 4 -
Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d.
2004)
*
April 5 - Sir
Tom Finney, English footballer
*April 5 -
Christopher Hewett, British actor (d.
2001)
*April 5 -
Gale Storm, American singer and actress
*
April 7 -
Mongo Santamaria, Cuban jazz musician (d.
2003)
*
April 13 -
Julius Nyerere,
President of Tanzania (d.
1999)
*
April 16 - Sir
Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d.
1995)
*
April 22 -
Charles Mingus, American musician (d.
1979)
*
April 28 -
Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d.
1987)
*
May 7 -
Darren McGavin, American actor (d.
2006)
*
May 14 -
Franjo Tudjman Franjo Tuđman,
President of Croatia (d.
1999)
*
May 15 -
Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
*
May 18 -
Kai Winding, Danish-born musician (d.
1983)
*
May 21 -
James Lopez Watson, American judge (d.
2001)
*
May 22 -
Quinn Martin, American television producer (d.
1987)
*
May 25 -
Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d.
1984)
*
May 27 -
Christopher Lee, English actor
*
May 28 -
Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
*
May 29 -
Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (d.
2001)
*
May 30 -
Hal Clement, American writer (d.
2003)
*
May 31 -
Denholm Elliott, English actor (d.
1992)
*
June 1 -
Povel Ramel, Swedish musican
*
June 2 -
Charlie Sifford, American golfer
*
June 10 -
Judy Garland, American singer and actress (d.
1969)
*
June 18 -
Claude Helffer, French pianist (d.
2004)
*
June 19 -
Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
June 24 -
Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (
Quartetto Cetra)
*
June 29 -
Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d.
1991)
July to December
*
July 15 -
Leon M. Lederman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
July 18 -
Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (d.
1996)
*
July 19 -
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia
*
July 31 -
Bill Kaysing, American writer
*
August 15 -
Lukas Foss, German-born composer
*
August 17 -
Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d.
1979)
*
August 22 -
Sosuke Uno,
Prime Minister of Japan (d.
1998)
*
August 23 -
George Kell, baseball player
*
September 1 -
Vittorio Gassmann, Italian actor and director (d.
2000)
*
September 3 -
Salli Terri, Canadian mezzo-soprano (d.
1996)
*
September 8 -
Sid Caesar, American actor and comedian
*
September 9 -
Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
September 12 -
Jackson Mac Low, American poet (d.
2004)
*
September 15 -
Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
*
September 22 -
Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
September 25 -
Hammer DeRoburt, first
President of Nauru (d.
1992)
*
October 1 -
Burke Marshall, American lawyer and politician (d.
2003)
*
October 5 -
José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
*
October 15 -
Luigi Giussani, Italian Catholic priest (d.
2005)
*
October 19 -
Jack Anderson, American journalist (d.
2005)
*
October 22 -
John Chafee, American politician (d.
1999)
*
October 27 -
Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d.
1998)
*
October 31 -
Barbara Bel Geddes, film and stage actress (d.
2005)
*
November 8 -
Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d.
2001)
*
November 11 -
Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist
*
November 14 -
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian
Secretary General of the United Nations
*
November 14 -
Veronica Lake, American actress (d.
1973)
*
November 16 -
Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist
*
November 16 -
Jose Saramago José Saramago, Portuguese author,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate
*
November 17 -
Stanley Cohen (doctor) Stanley Cohen, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
November 19 -
Yuri Knorosov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (d.
1999)
*
November 26 -
Charles Schulz Charles M. Schulz American cartoonist (d.
2000)
*
December 11 -
Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
*
December 14 -
Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2001)
*
December 17 -
Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d.
2005)
*
December 22 -
Barbara Billingsley, American actress
*December 22 -
Jack Brooks (politician) Jack Brooks, American politician
*
December 23 -
Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d.
2001)
*December 23 -
Don Tennant Donald Tennant, American advertising agency executive (d.
2001)
*
December 28 -
Stan Lee, American comics creator
Deaths
*
January 5 -
Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b.
1874)
*
January 22 -
Pope Benedict XV (b.
1854)
*
January 22 -
Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1837)
*
February 2 -
William Desmond Taylor, Irish-born film director (b.
1872)
*
February 3 -
John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b.
1839)
*
March 1 -
Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b.
1892)
*
March 24 -
Walter Parr, British preacher (b.
1871)
*
April 1 - Emperor
Karl I of Austria (b.
1887)
*
April 2 -
Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (b.
1884)
*
May 18 -
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1845)
*
May 19 -
Son, Byong-Hi, Korean leader of the March 1st Movement (b.
1861)
*
June 6 -
Lillian Russell, American singer and actress (b.
1861)
*
June 18 -
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b.
1851)
*
June 26 -
Albert I, Prince of Monaco Albert I of Monaco (b.
1848)
*
July 20 -
Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b.
1856)
*
August 2 -
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b.
1847)
*
August 5 -
Harry Boland, Irish republican (b.
1887)
*
August 12 -
Arthur Griffith,
President of Ireland (b.
1871)
*
August 22 -
Michael Collins (Irish leader) Michael Collins, Irish leader (assassinated) (b.
1890)
*
September 4 -
Sarah L. Winchester, builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b.
1837)
*
October 30 -
Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author (b.
1863)
*
November 7 -
Sam Thompson, baseball player (b.
1860)
Marriages
January-March
*
January 27 -
Bill Robinson &
Fannie S. Clay
*
February 4 -
Pauline Frederick &
Dr. C.A. Rutherford
*
February 10 -
Leslie Groves &
Grace Hulbert Wilson
*
February 14 -
Douglas MacArthur &
Louise Cromwell Brooks
*
February 14 -
Joan Lindsay &
Sir Daryl Lindsay
*
February 16 -
Thelma Morgan &
James Vail Converse
*
March 3 -
Sarah T. Hughes &
George Ernest Hughes
April-June
*
May 2 -
Isadora Duncan &
Sergei Esenin
*
May 20 -
James Thurber &
Althea Adams
*
June 8 -
Marshall Neilan &
Blanche Sweet
*
June 14 -
Bernard Freyberg &
Barbara MacLaren
July to December
*
July 12 -
Ruth Etting &
Moe Schneider
*
July 18 -
Edwina Mountbatten &
Louis Mountbatten
*
July 30 -
Jack Pickford &
Marilyn Miller
*
August 18 -
Al Jolson &
Ethel Delmar
*
September 2 -
Margaret Mitchell &
Red Berrien Upshaw
*
September 28 -
James Cagney &
Mrs. James Cagney
*
October 29 -
Robert E. Sherwood &
Mary Brandon
*
November 5 -
Kaiser Wilhelm II &
Hermine Reuss-Greiz
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize/Physics Physics -
Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr
*
Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry -
Francis William Aston
*
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine Physiology or Medicine -
Archibald Vivian Hill,
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Jacinto Benavente
*
Nobel Prize/Peace Peace -
Fridtjof Nansen
See also
*
1922 Committee
External links
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