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This article is about the year 1922. For the committee January 9 Julieta founded the Chilean communist
of British Conservative MPs, see 1922 Committee. For party.
the novella by Stephen King, see 1922 (novella).
January 10 Arthur Grith is elected President of
Dil ireann.
1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sun-
day (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and January 11 The rst successful insulin treatment of
a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.
of the Julian calendar, the 1922nd year of the Common
Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 922nd January 12 The British government releases the
year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 20th remaining Irish prisoners captured in the War of In-
century, and the 3rd year of the 1920s decade. As of the dependence.
start of 1922, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead January 13 The u epidemic has claimed 804 vic-
of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use tims in Britain.
until 1923.
January 15 Michael Collins becomes Chairman of
the Irish Provisional Government.
1 Events January 24 Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo
Pie.
1.1 January January 26 Italian forces occupy Misrata in Libya.
The reconquest of Libya begins.
Main article: January 1922
January 28 Knickerbocker Storm: Snowfall from
the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington,
D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre
to collapse, killing 98.
1.2 February
Main article: February 1922
January The year begins with the British Empire February 1 Irish American lm director William
at its largest extent, covering a quarter of the world Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in
and ruling over one in four people on Earth. Los Angeles; the case is never solved.
1
2 1 EVENTS
February 8
February 14
1.3 March
March 2
March 10-14 The Rand Revolt or Rebellion, a April 12 The United Kingdoms Prince of Wales
strike by white South African mine workers begins arrives in Yokohama aboard HMS Renown and rides
on 28 December 1921, and becomes open rebellion by train to Tokyo, starting a one-month visit to
against the state. Japan.[8][9]
March 13 Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates April 13 The State of Massachusetts opens all pub-
the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College lic oces to women.
in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the
April 16 The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rap-
Governor General and Secretary of State for India
prochement between the Weimar Republic and
to growing pressure for Indianization of the ocer
Bolshevik Russia.
cadre of the Indian Army.
April 22 The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan
March 15 Egypt having gained self-government
Sorority, Incorporated (the rst chapter of a black
from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of
sorority in New York State) is chartered.
Egypt.
April 24 The rst portion of the Imperial Wire-
March 18 In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is
less Chain, a strategic international wireless telegra-
sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he
phy network created to link the British Empire, is
serves only two).
opened, from England to Egypt.
March 20 The USS Langley is commissioned as
the rst United States Navy aircraft carrier.
1.5 May
March 22 Radio station WLW in Cincinnati begins
broadcasting.[5] Main article: May 1922
Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Sec- May 29 British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is
retary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil jailed for seven years for fraud.
reserves in Wyoming. May 30 In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memo-
The rst midair collision occurs, between a rial is dedicated.
Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and a
Grands Express Ariens Farman Goliath over
Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France. 1.6 June
April 10 The historic Genoa Conference com- Main article: June 1922
mences in Genoa. The representatives of 34 coun-
tries convene to speak about monetary economics in
the wake of World War I. June 1
4 1 EVENTS
June 11 U.S. premire of Robert J. Flaherty's July Hyperination in Germany means that 563
Nanook of the North, the rst commercially success- marks are now needed to buy a single American
ful feature-length documentary lm. dollar - almost double the 263 needed eight months
before and dwarng the mere 12 needed in April
June 14 U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes 1919 and even the 47 needed in December of that
his rst speech on the radio. year.
September 3 Monza Circuit, as known well for October 8 Rose Bowl Stadium, ocially opened
motor racing place in Italy, ocially opened in in Pasadena, California.
Lombardy Region.
October 15 T. S. Eliot establishes The Criterion
September 9 Turkish forces pursuing withdraw- magazine, containing the rst publication of his
ing Greek troops enter zmir, eectively ending the poem The Waste Land. This rst appears in the
Greco-Turkish War (191922). United States later this month in The Dial (dated
November 1) and is rst published complete with
September 11
notes in book form by Boni and Liveright in New
The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the York in December.
Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun, is founded.
October 18 The British Broadcasting Company is
The Mandate of Palestine is approved by the formed.[2]
Council of the League of Nations.
October 25 The Third Dil enacts the Constitution
September 13 The Gdynia Seaport Construction of the Irish Free State.
Act is passed by the Polish Parliament.
October 26 The Hogarth Press published Jacobs
September 1315 The Great Fire of Smyrna de- Room, a novel by Virginia Woolf
stroys most of zmir. Responsibility is disputed.[11]
October 27 Southern Rhodesians vote on a
September 17 Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops be- referendum and reject union with South Africa.
comes World Champion Sprinter.
October 28
September 18 The Kingdom of Hungary joins the
League of Nations. In Italy, the March on Rome brings the
National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini
September 29 Drums in the Night (Trommeln in
to power. Italy begins a dark period of
der Nacht) becomes the rst play by Bertolt Brecht
dictatorship that lasts until the end of the
to be staged, at the Munich Kammerspiele.
Second World War, but at the same time with
Mussolini's Italy becomes the rst power in the
1.10 October Mediterranean.
The Red Army occupies Vladivostok.
Main article: October 1922
October 30 Benito Mussolini becomes the
youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy at age 39.
October
3,000 German marks are now needed to buy a
single American dollar - triple the gure three
months ago.
The Russian Civil War ends with the colonies
remaining part of Russia.
1.11 November
Main article: November 1922
Benito Mussolini and Fascist Blackshirts during the March on
Rome.
November 1
October 1 G. I. Gurdjie opens his Institute for the The Ottoman Empire is abolished after 600
Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau years and its last sultan Mehmed VI, abdicates.
in France. A broadcasting license fee of ten shillings is
introduced in the United Kingdom.
October 3 Rebecca L. Felton becomes the rst fe-
male US senator, when Georgias governor gives her November 4 In Egypt, English archaeologist
a temporary appointment, pending an election to re- Howard Carter and his men nd the entrance to
place Senator Thomas Watson, who had died sud- Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the
denly. Kings.[1]
6 1 EVENTS
2 Births
2.1 January
January 1 Ernest Fritz Hollings, U.S. Senator
from South Carolina
January 5 Helen Smith, American female baseball
player
January 7
Alvin Dark, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2014)
Jean-Pierre Rampal, French utist (d. 2000)
January 8
Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
Abbey Simon, American classical pianist Telly Savalas
January 9
Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist, re- Ahmed Skou Tour, Guinean politician,
cipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or President of Guinea from 1958 to 1984 (d.
Medicine (d. 2011) 1984)
8 2 BIRTHS
January 26
February 13
February 15
February 17
February 18
February 24
February 26
2.3 March
March 1
Ralph H. Baer, German-born American in- March 31 Richard Kiley, American actor and
ventor (d. 2014) singer (d. 1999)
April 16
April 19
Julius Nyerere
April 24 Susanna Agnelli, Italian politician (d.
2009)
April 27
2.5 May
May 1 Vitaly Popkov, Russian ghter ace (d.
2010)
April 14 Ali Akbar Khan, Indian musician (d. May 10 Nancy Walker, American actress, singer
2009) and director (d. 1992)
12 2 BIRTHS
Franjo Tuman
Christopher Lee
2.6 June
Margherita Hack
June 5 Sheila Sim, English actress (d. 2016) Roderick Strohl, American non-
commissioned oce
June 10 Jack Carter, American comedian (d. 2015)
Robert Alan Aurthur, American screenwriter Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (d.
(d. 1978) 1988)
14 2 BIRTHS
June 26
June 27
June 29
2.7 July
Jason Robards
July 3
July 4
Zeynep Korkmaz, Turkish scholar and dialec- Ghulam Nabi Firaq, Kashmiri poet, writer and
tologist an educationist (d. 2016)
Doris Margaret Anderson, Canadian nutri- B. Rajam Iyer, Carnatic singer from South In-
tionist and retired senator dia (d. 2009)
Khagapati Pradhani, Indian politician (d.
July 6
2010)
Saito Shin Ichi, Japanese painter
July 16
William Schallert, American actor (d. 2016)
Anatoli Levitin, Soviet Russian painter and art
July 7 educator
Reidar Torp, Norwegian military ocer Samuel Conti, American politician
P. Gopinathan Nair, Indian social worker July 17
James D. Hughes, American Air Force lieu- Tetsur Tamba, Japanese actor (d. 2006)
tenant general
Jane Cronin Scanlon, American mathemati-
July 8 Eugenio Martnez, alias Musculito, current cian
real estate agent who was a member of the anti-
Castro movement in the early 1960s July 18
Ray Lambert, Welsh footballer (d. 2009)
July 9 Angelines Fernndez, Spanish-born Mexi-
can actress (d. 1994) Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of sci-
ence (d. 1996)
July 10
July 19
Jack Arthurs, American politician
Rachel Robinson, American actress
Fred Furniss, English former footballer
George McGovern, American politician, his-
Herb McKenley, Jamaican Olympic athlete (b. torian and author (d. 2012)
2007)
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul
July 11 Annette Warren, American actress Rahman, King of Malaysia (d. 2008)
July 13 July 20 Alan Stephenson Boyd, American attorney
and 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
Fran Hopper, American comic book artist
Louis R. Harlan, American academic historian July 21
(d. 2010) Demeter Bitenc, Slovenian lm actor
Anker Jrgensen, Danish politician (d. 2016) Christian Alers, French actor
Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. Mollie Sugden, British actress (d. 2009)
2006)
July 22 Jacqueline Cartier, French actress, writer
July 14 and journalist
Bernie Agrons, American politician July 26
Elfriede Rinkel, German SS ocer Hoyt Wilhelm, American Major League Base-
Gerald Myrden, American businessman ball pitcher (d. 2002)
Robin Olds, American ghter pilot. (d. 2007) Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss prelate (d. 2017)
Blake Edwards, American director (d. 2010)
July 15
Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
Jean-Pierre Richard, French writer and liter-
Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball Hall of Famer (d.
ary critic
2002)
Henri Bangou, French politician
July 27 Norman Lear, American television writer
Leon M. Lederman, American physicist,
and producer
Nobel Prize laureate
Rajan Kadiragamar, Sri Lankan Admiral July 29 Mac Wilson, Australian rules footballer (d.
1966)
Jean-Pierre Richard, French writer and liter-
ary critic July 31 Bill Kaysing, American writer (d. 2005)
16 2 BIRTHS
2.9 September
Ren Lvesque
2.11 November
Charles M. Schulz
November 9
November 14
November 16
2.12 December
Dilip Kumar
Redd Foxx
December 11 December 14
20 3 DEATHS
3 Deaths
3.1 January
Stan Lee
December 17 Alan Voorhees, American engineer January 1 Istvn Khr, Prekmurje Slovene writer
and urban planner (d. 2005) and politician (b. 1887)
December 18 Jack Brooks, American politician January 5 Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b.
(d. 2012) 1874)
December 20 Charita Bauer, American ac- January 10 kuma Shigenobu, 2-time Prime Min-
tress/soap opera star (d. 1985) ister of Japan (b. 1838)
January 22
Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician
(d. 1989) Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
Paul Winchell, American actor (d. 2005) Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacist,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1837)
December 23 Micheline Ostermeyer, French ath-
lete and musician (d. 2001) James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Irish-born
politician, diplomat and historian (b. 1838)
December 24 Ava Gardner, American actress (d. William Christie, British astronomer (b.
1990) 1845)
December 28 Stan Lee, American comics creator January 23 Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor
(b. 1855)
December 29 William Gaddis, American writer
(d. 1998) January 27
December 30 Boes Boestami, Indonesian actor (d. Nellie Bly, American undercover journalist (b.
1970) 1864)
3.2 February 21
Pope Benedict XV
Okuma Shigenobu
3.2 February
February 1
February 3
February 8 Kabayama Sukenori, Japanese samu- February 14 Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish Minister of
rai, general, and statesman (b. 1837) Interior (b. 1880)
22 3 DEATHS
3.4 April
Ernest Solvay
April 2 Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (b. May 18 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French
1884) physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (b. 1845)
April 8 Erich von Falkenhayn, German general (b.
1861) May 19 Son Byong-hi, Korean activist (b. 1861)
3.7 July 23
June 6
3.8 August
August 2
August 4
Prince Albert I of Monaco
Nikolai Nebogatov, Russian admiral (b. 1849)
24 3 DEATHS
3.9 September
August 12 Arthur Grith, Irish republican, Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna (b. 1867)
President of Dil ireann (b. 1872) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, British poet (b. 1840)
3.12 December 25
3.10 October
Marcel Proust
November 18 Marcel Proust, French author (b. December 17 David Lindsay, Australian explorer
1871) (b. 1856)
26 5 REFERENCES
5 References
[1] Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassells Chronology of World
History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 491493.
ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
[4] Blaustein, Albert P.; Sigler, Jay A.; Beede, Benjamin R.,
eds. (1977). Independence Documents of the World. 1.
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications. pp. 204205.
ISBN 978-0-379-00794-7.
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