1922

history

1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1922

January

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February

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March

April

  • April 3 – Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
  • April 7
  • April 10 – The historic Genoa Conference commences in Genoa. The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak about monetary economics in the wake of World War I.
  • April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
  • April 15 – England's Prince of Wales visits the Japanese paramilitary youth group Seinendan in annexed Korea.
  • April 16 – The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.
  • April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.

May

June

  • June 1
    • The Royal Ulster Constabulary is officially founded.
    • Bolshevik forces defeat Basmachi troops under Enver Pasha.
  • June 14 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.
  • June 22 – Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British field marshal Henry Hughes Wilson in Belgravia; the assassins are sentenced to death July 18.
  • June 24 – Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau is assassinated; the murderers are captured July 17.
  • June 26 – Louis HonorĂ© 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 – Morocco revolts against the Spanish.
  • August 23 – The Turkish large-scale attack opened against Greek forces in Afyon.
  • August 28 – Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia.

September

October

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  • October 1 – G.I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau in France.
  • October 9 – Sir William Horwood, London Metropolitan Police Service commissioner, is poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates.
  • October 18 – The British Broadcasting Company is formed.
  • October 23 – The German army occupies Saxony and crushes the 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.
    • The Red Army occupies Vladivostok.
  • October 30 – Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.

November

  • November 1
  • November 4 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
  • November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by 7 educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
  • November 14 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom. 2LO becomes 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, is not founded until the following year.)
  • 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 21Rebecca 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 Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.

December

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Undated

  • Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta Canada.
  • Inter-Parliamentary Union
  • Vegemite is invented by Australian Fred Walker.
  • Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish Independence Committee, is founded.
  • The Molly Pitcher Club is formed to promote the repeal of prohibition in the United States.
  • Thompson Webb founds the Webb School for Boys.
  • The Barbary Lion becomes extinct in the wild, with the last killed in Morocco, in the area of the Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.[http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctm/BarbLion.htm].
  • The Amur Tiger becomes extinct in South Korea.[http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/savethetiger.htm].
  • The California grizzly bear becomes extinct.
  • Japan signs a naval arms limitation treaty with the Western powers and returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China.
  • Wracked by rapid inflation and political assassinations and motivated by hostility and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay more and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years.

Ongoing

Births

January–February

March–April

  • Gale Storm, American singer and actress (d. 2009)
  • April 7 – Mongo Santamaria, Cuban jazz musician (Watermelon Man) (d. 2003)
  • April 13 – Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
  • April 14 – Ali Akbar Khan, Indian musician (d. 2009)
  • April 16
    • Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d. 1995)
    • Leo Tindemans, former Belgian Prime Minister
  • April 19Erich Hartmann, World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1993)
  • April 22 – Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
  • April 23 – Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (d. 1995)
  • April 24 – Susanna Agnelli, Italian politician (d. 2009)
  • April 27 – Jack Klugman, American actor (The Odd Couple and Quincy, M.E.)
  • April 28Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987)

May–June

July–August

September–October

November–December

Deaths

January–June

July–December

Nobel Prizes

Ship events

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