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Everything about 1922 totally explainedYear 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1922
January
February
February - Ring Magazine is first published.
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 and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
February 6
February 8
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.
March
March 1
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).
April
April 7
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 Bolshevik Russia.
April 22 - Lambda Chapter of Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated was chartered. It is the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State.
May
May 5 - In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
May 11 - KGU
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 Dan Gallant jailed for 7 years for fraud
May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
June
June 1
June 14 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes first speech on the radio.
June 22 - Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British field marshal Henry Hughes 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
July
July 11 - The Hollywood Bowl opens.
August
August 22 - General Michael Collins is assassinated in west Cork.
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 İzmir
September 11 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
September 13 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
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.
October
October 9 - Sir William Horwood, London Metropolitan Police Service commissioner is poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates
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
October 31 - Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.
November
November 1
November 5 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
November 12 - Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated was founded on November 12, 1922, by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group became an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter was granted to Alpha chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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 15 - In the United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority.
(The 1922 Committee, popularly believed to take its name from this occasion, wasn't founded until the following year.)
November 17 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in Italy.
November 18 - Marcel Proust, author of In Search of Lost Time, dies.
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 Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
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 16 - Assassination of Gabriel Narutowicz, the president of Poland
December 25 - Christmas
December 30 - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasia come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Undated
Earl W. 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
Molly Pitcher Club formed to promote the repeal of prohibition in United States
Thompson Webb founds Webb School for Boys.
Extinction of the Barbary Lion in the wild, with the last killed in Morocco, in the area of Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests(External Link ).
The Amur Tiger became extinct in South Korea by this date (External Link).
Ongoing
Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:
Births
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
January 19 - Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
January 21 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
January 21 - Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
January 22
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 2 - Stoyanka Mutafova - Bulgarian actress
February 6
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
February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, American editor and publisher
February 24
February 26
March-April
March 1
March 4
March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (d. 1975)
March 8
March 9 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (d. 1984)
March 11 - Tun Abdul Razak, second Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976)
March 12
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
March 27 - Stefan Wul, French writer (d. 2003)
March 28
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
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 16 - Leo Tindemans, former Belgian Prime Minister
April 22 - Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
April 28 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987)
May-June
May 7
May 10 - Nancy Walker, American movie and television actress (d. 1992)
May 11 - Ameurfina Melencio Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
May 13 - Beatrice Arthur, American comedienne and actress
May 14 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
May 15 - Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
May 18
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 22 - Mona Lisa, Filipino actress
June 24 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1988)
June 29 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
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 22 - English P. "Cousin Jake" Tullock, bass player for Flatt & Scruggs' Foggy Mountain Boys
July 31 - Bill Kaysing, American writer
August 3 - Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author
August 10 - Keith Massey (assistant headteacher of Virgo Fidelis Convent Senior School)
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
August 24 - René Lévesque, 23rd Premier of Quebec and Howard Zinn, social activist and historian.
September-October
September 1
September 3
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)
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 23 - Cameron Sharp, Canadian Citizen
October 27 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
October 31 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005)
November-December
November 8 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d. 2001)
November 9
November 11 - Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
November 14
November 16
November 17 - Stanley Cohen, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
November 19 - Yuri Knorozov, 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)
Deaths
January-June
January 5 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
January 10 - Okuma Shigenobu, 8th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838)
January 22
January 23 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
January 27
February 1
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 4 - William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
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)
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. 1872)
August 14 - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper magnate (b. 1865)
August 22 - Michael Collins, Irish leader (killed in ambush) (b. 1890)
September 4 - Sarah L. Winchester, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b. 1837)
September 10 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, poet (b. 1840)
September 26 - Thomas E. Watson, American politician and senator (b. 1856)
October 7 - Marie Lloyd, English singer (b. 1870)
October 30 - Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author (b. 1863)
November 7 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
November 23 - Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar and Mesoamericanist (b. 1849)
November 24 - Robert Erskine Childers, novelist and Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
December 16 - Gabriel Narutowicz, President of Poland (b. 1865)
Undated
The California grizzly bear became extinct this year.
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
Ship events
List of ship commissionings in 1922
List of ship decommissionings in 1922
List of shipwrecks in 1922
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