1922

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1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Events

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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 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 and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
February 6 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
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'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 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 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
May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

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June

June 1 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
June 1 - Bolshevik forces defeat Asmachi troops under Enver Pasha
June 22 - 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 of Monaco.
June 28 - The Irish Civil War begins

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

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 23 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.

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 - 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 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 Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

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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 Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic come together to form the 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 "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, 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, 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) 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 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 26 - Charles M. Schulz American cartoonist (d. 2000)
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 22 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress
December 22 - Jack Brooks, American politician
December 23 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
December 23 - 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)
January 27 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (b. 1840)
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 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 (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

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

See also

1922 Committee

External links

1922 Coin Pictures

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