1922

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

Events

• January 7 - Dáil Éireann, the extra-legal parliament of the Irish Republic, 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 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 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 8 - President of the United States, Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
• February 14 - Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.
• February 25 - Henri Desire Landru is 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.
• 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 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 19 - Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
• May 29 - British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley jailed for 7 years for fraud

The Lincoln memorial, dedicated on May 30th

• May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
• June 1 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
• 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 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 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. 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.

Flag of the Irish Free State, and later the Republic of Ireland after independence from the British

• 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 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
• Ring Magazine first published

Year in topic

• 1922 in aviation
• 1922 in film
• 1922 in literature
• 1922 in music
• 1922 in rail transport
  • H. L. Hamilton and Paul Turner form a company called Electro-Motive Engineering (later to become General Motors Electro-Motive Division) in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1922 in science
• 1922 in sports
  • Water skiing invented by Ralph Samuelson in Lake City, Minnesota

Births

Date Unkown

John Chaffee, American politician (d. 1999)

January-March

• January 1 - Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, South Carolina senator
• January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
• January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (d. 1970)
• January 16 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer
• January 17 - Nicholas Katzenbach, American politician
  • 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
• February 6 - Patrick Macnee, British actor
  • Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer
  • Denis Norden, British TV and radio scriptwriter and personality
• February 7 - Hattie Jacques, British actress (d. 1980)
• February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, American actress
• February 11 - Tudor Jarda, composer
• 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
  • Steven Hill, American actor
• March 1 - William Gaines, American publisher and founder of MAD Magazine (d. 1992)
  • Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Laureat (d. 1995)
• March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director
• March 8 - Heinar Kipphardt, dramatist, lyricist, narrator (d. 1982)
  • Mizuki Shigeru, Japanese author
• March 9 - Tommy Cooper, British comedian and magician (d. 1984)
• March 12 - Jack Kerouac, American author (d. 1969)
  • Lane Kirkland - American union leader (d. 1999)
• March 18 - Egon Bahr, politician
• March 20 - Carl Reiner, American film director, producer, actor, and comedian
• March 21 - Russ Meyer, American film director and producer (d. 2004)
• March 28 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
  • 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, former Canadian Senator
• April 4 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
• 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, Tanzanian President (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, Croatian President (d. 1999)
• May 15 - Setouchi Jakucho, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
• May 17 - Antje Weisgerber, actress
• May 18 - Kai Winding, Danish-born jazz 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 science fiction 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, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
• 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 5 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez, Argentine race car driver
• October 15 - Luigi Giussani, Italian Catholic priest (d. 2005)
• October 31 - Barbara Bel Geddes, film and stage actress
• 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 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 23 - Calder Willingham, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
• December 28 - Stan Lee, American comics creator

Deaths

• January 5 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
• January 22 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
• February 2 - William Desmond Taylor, Irish-born film director (b. 1872)
• February 11 - Gerardus J. P. Bolland, Dutch philosopher
• March 1 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
• March 24 - Walter Parr, British preacher (b. 1871)
• April 1 - Emperor Karl 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, American 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
• November 7 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Niels Henrik David Bohr
• Chemistry - Francis William Aston
• Medicine - Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof
• Literature - Jacinto Benavente
• Peace - Fridtjof Nansen

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, Reich President (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).

See also

• 1922 Committee