1922 (original) (raw)
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of D�il �ireann
- 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 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 Honor� Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.
- August 12 - death of Arthur Griffith, President of D�il �ireann
- 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
Births
- January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician
- January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, film director († 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 († 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 († 1995)
- March 1 - William Gaines, publisher, founder of MAD Magazine († 1992)
- March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
- March 8 - Heinar Kipphardt, dramatist, lyricist, narrator († 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 († 1999)
- April 1 - William Manchester, writer
- April 4 - Elmer Bernstein, composer
- April 5 - Gale Storm, singer/actress
- April 7 - Mongo Santamaria, Latin jazz musician († 2003)
- April 22 - Charles Mingus, musician († 1979)
- April 22 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English novelist († 1995)
- April 28 - Alistair Maclean, actor
- May 7 - Darren McGavin, actor
- May 14 - Franjo Tudjman, president of Croatia († 1999)
- May 17 - Dennis Brain, French horn player
- May 17 - Antje Weisgerber, actress
- May 18 - Kai Winding, jazz musician († 1983)
- May 22 - Quinn Martin, television producer († 1987)
- May 25 - Enrico Berlinguer, politician († 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 († 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 († 1996)
- September 15 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
- September 25 - Hammer DeRoburt, founding president of Nauru († 1992)
- November 8 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon († 2001)
- November 14 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the U.N.
- December 24-Howard R Grinde, U.S Army soldier in WWII
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 D�il �ireann
- 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