1922
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1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar).
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[edit] Events
[edit] 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 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 War of Independence.
- January 13 - Flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.
- January 15 - Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government.
- January 22 - Pope Benedict XV dies.
- January 24 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
- January 29 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved
[edit] 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 2 - Stoyanka Mutafova - Bulgarian actress
- February 5 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
- February 6 - Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV as the 259th pope.
- February 6 - Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between United States, 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 GPU, a section of NKVD
- February 14 - Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.
- February 25 - Murderer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded 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.
[edit] March
- March 1 - Ice mass breaks the Oder dam in Breslau
- March 1 - The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.
- March 11 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition
- March 15 - Egypt having gained nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
- March 18 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition. He would serve only two years.
- March 20 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- March 23 - Queensland, Australia abolishes Legislative Council (Upper House).
[edit] April
- April 7 - Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
- April 7 - First air collision between Daimler Airways DH 18 and 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 marks rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevic Russia.
- April 22 - Lambda Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated was chartered. It is the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State.
[edit] 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
- May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
[edit] June
- June 1 - Official foundation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
- June 1 - Bolshevik forces defeat Asmachi troops under Enver Pasha
- June 14 - President Harding makes first speech on the radio.
- June 22 - IRA agents assassinate 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 of Monaco.
- June 28 - The Irish Civil War begins
[edit] August
- August 12 - Death of Arthur Griffith, President of Dáil Éireann
- August 22 - Death of 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
[edit] 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 - 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 22 - Mandate of Palestine approved by the Council of the League of Nations.
- September 23 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
[edit] October
- October 9 - Sir William Horwood, London Metropolitan Police Service commissioner is poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates
- October 16 - The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy.
- October 23 - 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.
[edit] November
- November 1 - Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last sultan Mehmed VI Vahdettin abdicates.
- November 1 - The broadcasting license fee of ten shillings introduced in the United Kingdom
- November 4 - In Egypt, 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 takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman 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 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
[edit] 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 becomes the Free State's monarch. Tim Healy is appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State and W.T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council.
- December 14 - Assassination of Gabriel Narutowicz, the president of Poland
- December 30 - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasia come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
[edit] Undated
- Earl Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
- 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
- Extinction of the Barbary Lion, with the last killed in Morroco, in the area of Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.
[edit] Ongoing events
- Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:
- Assyrian Genocide (1914–1922)
- Pontic Greek Genocide (1916–1923)
[edit] Births
Gregorian calendar | 1922 MCMXXII |
Ab urbe condita | 2675 |
Armenian calendar | 1371 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԱ |
Bahá'í calendar | 78 – 79 |
Buddhist calendar | 2466 |
Chinese calendar | 4558/4618-12-4 (辛酉年十二月初四日) — to —
4559/4619-11-14(壬戌年十一月十四日) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1914 – 1915 |
Hebrew calendar | 5682 – 5683 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1977 – 1978 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1844 – 1845 |
- Kali Yuga | 5023 – 5024 |
Holocene calendar | 11922 |
Iranian calendar | 1300 – 1301 |
Islamic calendar | 1340 – 1341 |
Japanese calendar | Taishō 11 (大正11年) |
- Imperial Year | Kōki 2582 (皇紀2582年) |
- Jōmon Era | 11922 |
Julian calendar | 1967 |
Korean calendar | 4255 |
Thai solar calendar | 2465 |
[edit] January-February
- January 1 - 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 12 - Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (d. 1994)
- 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 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
- January 21 - Paul Scofield, English actor
- January 22 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician
- January 22 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
- January 24 - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (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, Australian cricketer
- February 6 - Denis Norden, British television and radio scriptwriter and personality
- February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, American actress
- February 12 - Tun Hussein Onn, third Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
- February 13 - Gordon Tullock, American economist
- 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, British painter
- February 24 - Steven Hill, American actor
- February 26 - William Baumol, American economist
- February 26- Margaret Leighton, British actress
[edit] March-April
- March 1 - William Gaines, American magazine publisher (d. 1992)
- March 1 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995)
- March 4 - Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
- March 4 - Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
- March 4 - Dina Pathak (Deena Pathak), Veteran Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
- March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (d. 1975)
- March 8 - Mizuki Shigeru, Japanese author
- March 8 - Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor
- 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 and playwright
- March 17 - Patrick Suppes, American philosopher
- 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 21 - Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
- 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 1 - William Manchester, American writer (d. 2004)
- April 3 - Maurice Riel, Canadian senator
- April 4 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
- April 5 - 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 - Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d. 1995)
- April 22 - Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
- April 28 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987)
[edit] May-June
- May 7 - Darren McGavin, American actor (d. 2006)
- May 14 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
- May 15 - Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
- May 18 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005)
- 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 musician
- 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 laureate
- June 24 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1988)
- June 29 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
[edit] July-August
- July 15 - Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, 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
[edit] September-October
- September 1 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
- September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, Italian actor and director (d. 2000)
- September 3 - Salli Terri, Canadian mezzo-soprano (d. 1996)
- September 3 - Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (d. 1976)
- September 8 - Sid Caesar, American actor and comedian
- September 9 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 10 - Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer
- 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 laureate
- September 24 - Floyd Levin, American-born musicologist
- September 25 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
- September 26 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
- 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, American actress (d. 2005)
[edit] November-December
- November 8 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d. 2001)
- November 9 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
- November 9 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (d. 1965)
- 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 - José Saramago, Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 17 - Stanley Cohen, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- November 19 - Yuri Knorosov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (d. 1999)
- November 23 - Donald Tennant, American advertising agency executive (d. 2001)
- November 26 - Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
- December 9 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and star of the television show Sanford and Son
- December 11 - Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
- December 14 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
- December 17 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
- December 20 - Charita Bauer, American actress/Soap opera star (d. 1985)
- December 22 - Jack Brooks, American politician
- December 23 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
- December 24 - Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
- December 28 - Stan Lee, American comics creator
- December 29 - William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January - June
- January 5 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
- January 10 - Okuma Shigenobu, 8th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838)
- January 22 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
- January 22 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1837)
- January 23 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
- January 27 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (b. 1840)
- February 1 - Yamagata Aritomo, 3rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838)
- February 1 - William Desmond Taylor, Irish-born film director (b. 1872)
- February 3 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
- February 14 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish Minister of Interior (b. 1880)
- 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 7 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
- 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 activist (b. 1861)
- June 6 - Lillian Russell, American singer and actress (b. 1861)
- June 18 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
- June 26 - Albert I of Monaco (b. 1848)
[edit] July - December
- 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 (assassinated) (b. 1890)
- September 4 - Sarah L. Winchester, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b. 1837)
- October 30 - Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author (b. 1863)
- November 7 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
[edit] Nobel prizes
- Physics - Niels Henrik David Bohr
- Chemistry - Francis William Aston
- Physiology or Medicine - Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof
- Literature - Jacinto Benavente
- Peace - Fridtjof Nansen
[edit] Ship events
- List of ship commissionings in 1922
- List of ship decommissionings in 1922
- List of shipwrecks in 1922
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
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