1922
1922 was a Common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
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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 Great 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 1 - William Desmond Taylor , Hollywood director, is shot in his home 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 . 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 . 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 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. 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 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 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 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 . September 23 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament. 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. Births January-March January 1 - Ernest 'Fritz' Hollings , U.S. Senator from South Carolina January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal , French flutist (d. 2000 ) 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 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 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 12 - Jack Kerouac , American author (d. 1969 ) March 12 - Lane Kirkland , American union leader (d. 1999 ) 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 May 14 - Franjo Tuđman , President of Croatia (d. 1999 ) May 15 - Setouchi Jakucho , 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 22 - John Chafee , American politician (d. 1999 ) 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 November 16 - José Saramago , Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate 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 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 ) February 2 - William Desmond Taylor , Irish-born film director (b. 1872 ) 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 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 , Irish founder of Sinn Fein (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 July to December Heads of state in 1922 See also