1922 Details, Meaning 1922 Article and Explanation Guide

1922 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes
6 Heads of state in 1922
7 See also

Events

January 7 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann
January 11 - First successful insulin treatment of diabetes.
January 12 - British government releases Irish prisoners
January 13 - Flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain
January 15 - Michael Collins becomes head of the Irish Provisional Government
January 24 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
January 21 - Irish parliament accept the treaty of the Irish Free state
January 29 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved
February 2 - Ulysses (novel) by James Joyce is published in Paris on his 40th 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 8 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
February 14 - Ernst Tandefelt assassinates Finnish interior minister Heikki Ritavuori
February 17 - British parliament accept Irish Free State
February 25 - Henri Desire Landru executed by 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.
March 1 - Ice mass breaks the Oder dam in Breslau
March 1 - British Civil Aviation Authority established
March 11 - Mohandas Gandhi arrested in Bombay for sedition
March 15 - After Egypt gains 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 2 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 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 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 22 - IRA agents 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 - Assassianation of Arthur Griffith, President of Dáil Éireann
August 22 - Assassination of General Michael Collins - President of the Irish Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Army.
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 commissioner is poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates
October 28 - In Italy, with the March on Rome, Fascism obtains power and Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister.
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 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.
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.
December 6 - The Irish Free State comes into existence. George V becomes King of Ireland. Tim Healy appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, W.T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council.
December 14 - Assassination of Gabriel Narutowicz, the president of Poland
December 30 - Russia and allied Soviet republics form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Invention of Vegemite by Australian Fred Walker
Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish Independence Committee, founded

Year in topic

Births

January 1 - Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, South Carolina senator
January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician
January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (d. 1970)
January 16 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer
January 17 - Nicholas Katzenbach, politician
January 17 - Betty White, actress
January 21 - Paul Scofield, actor
January 22 - Leonel Brizola, politician
January 30 - Dick Martin, comedian
February 6 - Patrick Macnee, actor
February 7 - Hattie Jacques, actress (d. 1980)
February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, actress
February 11 - Tudor Jarda, composer.
February 15 - John Bayard Anderson, U.S Representative and presidential candidate
February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, editor, publisher
February 24 - Richard Hamilton, pop-art painter
February 24 - Steven Hill, actor
March 1 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995)
March 1 - William Gaines, publisher, founder of MAD Magazine (d. 1992)
March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
March 8 - Heinar Kipphardt, dramatist, lyricist, narrator (d. 1982)
March 9 - Tommy Cooper, UK comedian and magician
March 12 - Jack Kerouac, US author
March 18 - Egon Bahr, politician
March 20 - Carl Reiner, director, producer, actor, comedian
March 21 - Russ Meyer, pornographic film director, producer
March 28 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
March 31 - Richard Kiley, actor, singer (d. 1999)
April 1 - William Manchester, writer
April 4 - Elmer Bernstein, composer
April 5 - Gale Storm, singer/actress
April 7 - Mongo Santamaria, Latin jazz musician (d. 2003)
April 22 - Charles Mingus, musician (d. 1979)
April 22 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d. 1995)
April 28 - Alistair Maclean, actor
May 7 - Darren McGavin, actor
May 14 - Franjo Tuđman;, president of Croatia (d. 1999)
May 17 - Dennis Brain, French horn player
May 17 - Antje Weisgerber, actress
May 18 - Kai Winding, jazz musician (d. 1983)
May 21 - James Lopez Watson, American judge (d. 2001)
May 22 - Quinn Martin, television producer (d. 1987)
May 25 - Enrico Berlinguer, politician (d. 1984)
May 27 - Christopher Lee, actor
May 28 - Lou Duva, boxing trainer
May 29 - Iannis Xenakis, composer
May 30 - Hal Clement, science fiction writer
May 31 - Denholm Elliott, actor (d. 1992)
June 10 - Judy Garland, performer
June 24 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
July 18 - Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science
August 17 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
August 23 - George Kell, Baseball Hall of Famer
September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, Italian actor and director
September 3 - Salli Terri, mezzo soprano (d. 1996)
September 8 - Sid Caesar, actor, comedian
September 15 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
September 25 - Hammer DeRoburt, founding president of Nauru (d. 1992)
October 5 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez, Formula One driver
November 8 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d. 2001)
November 14 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the U.N.
December 22 - Barbara Lillian Combes, later by marriage Barbara Billingsley, American actress
December 22 - Jack Brooks, American politician
December 23 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician
December 28 - Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and many other Marvel Comics characters
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, later Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, later Sultan of Selangor and 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

Deaths

January 5 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer
January 22 - Pope Benedict XV
February 2 - William Desmond Taylor, film director
February 11 - Gerardus J. P. Bolland, Dutch philosopher.
March 1 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish football player (b. 1892)
March 24 - Walter Robinson Parr , British preacher
April 1 - Emperor Karl of Austria
April 2 - Hermann Rorschach
May 19 - Son, Byong-Hi, one of the leaders of the Samil, or March 1st Movement in Korea
June 6 - Lillian Russell, singer, vaudeville star
June 18 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer
June 26 - Albert I of Monaco
August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone.
August 5 - Harry Boland, Irish republican, killed in the Irish Civil War
August 12 - Arthur Griffith, President of Dáil Éireann
August 22 - Michael Collins assassinated.
September 4 - Sarah L. Winchester, builder of the Winchester Mystery House

Nobel Prizes

Heads of state in 1922

Albania -
- Xhafer Ypi, Prime Minister of Albania (acting, 1922).
- Ahmet Zogu, Prime Minister of Albania (acting, 1922 - 1924).
Belgium - King Albert I of Belgium (1909 - 1934).
Bolshevist Russia/Soviet Union - Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Soviet Union (1919/1922 - 1946).
Costa Rica - Julio Acosta García, President of Costa Rica (1920 - 1924).
Denmark - King Christian X of Denmark (1912 - 1947).
Egypt - King Fuad I of Egypt (1917/1922 - 1936).
Ethiopia - Empress Zawditu of Ethiopia (1916 - 1930).
France - Alexandre Millerand, President of France (1929 - 1924).
Germany - Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany (1919 - 1925).
Italy - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1900 - 1946).
Japan - Yoshihito, the Taisho Emperor (1912 - 1926).
Mexico - Álvaro Obregón, President of Mexico (1920 - 1924).
Monaco -
- Reigning Prince Albert I of Monaco (1889 - 1922).
- Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco (1922- 1949).
Netherlands - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1890 - 1948).
Norway - King Haakon VII of Norway (1905 - 1957).
Ottoman Empire -
- Sultan Mehmed VI (1918 - 1922).
- Caliph Abdul Mejid II (1922 - 1924).
Republic of China -
- Xu Shichang of the Beijing government, President of the Republic of China (1918 - 1922).
- Sun Yat-sen of the Guangzhou government, rival President of the Republic of China (1921 - 1925).
Saudi Arabia - Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (1902 - 1953).
Sweden - King Gustav V of Sweden (1907 - 1950).
United Kingdom - King George V of the United Kingdom (1910 - 1936).
United States - Warren Gamaliel Harding, President of the United States (1921 - 1923).

Years: 1919 1920 1921 - 1922 - 1923 1924 1925
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
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1922 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Events

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Births

Deaths

Nobel Prizes

Heads of state in 1922

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