1922

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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 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 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 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 1 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
• 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.
• September 11 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
• 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. 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 30 - Russia and allied Soviet republics form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

• Invention of Vegemite by Australian Fred Walker

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• January 1 - Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, South Carolina senator
• January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician
• January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (d. 1970)
• January 17 - Nicholas Katzenbach, politician
• January 17 - Betty White, actress
• 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 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 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 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
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