1922

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 - 1922 - 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927

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 15 - Michael Collins becomes head 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 5 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
• February 6 - Achille Ratti become Pope Pius XI.
• February 8 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
• 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 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 civil disobedience. 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 16 - The Treaty of Rapallo marks rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevist Russia.
• May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
• June - Start of Irish Civil War
• 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 - Assassination of General Michael Collins - President of the Irish Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Army.
• 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 went on 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. Tim Healy appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, W.T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council.
• December 30 - Russia and allied Soviet republics form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

• Invention of Vegemite by Australian Fred Walker

Year in topic

• 1922 in film
• 1922 in literature
• 1922 in music
• 1922 in science
• 1922 in sports

Births

• January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician
• January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (d. 1970)
• January 17 - Betty White, actress
• January 17 - Nicholas Katzenbach, politician
• January 21 - Paul Scofield, actor
• 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 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 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 Tudjman, 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 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
• July 18 - Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science
• September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, Italian actor and director
• September 3 - Salli Terri, mezzo soprano (d. 1996)
• September 15 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
• September 25 - Hammer DeRoburt, founding president of Nauru (d. 1992)
• November 8 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d. 2001)
• November 14 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the U.N.
• December 23 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician
• December 24-Howard R Grinde, U.S Army soldier in WWII
• December 28 - Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and many other Marvel Comics characters

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.
• April 1 - Emperor Karl of Austria
• April 2 - Hermann Rorschach
• 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
• Son, Byong-Hi, one of the leaders of the Samil, or March 1st Movement in Korea

Nobel Prizes

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

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