1922: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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 12 - British government releases Irish prisoners
• January 13 - Flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain
• January 15 - Michael Collins becomes head of the Irish Provisional Government
• January 24 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
• January 21 - Irish parliament accept the treaty of the Irish Free state
• 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 14 - Ernst Tandefelt assassinates Finnish interior minister Heikki Ritavuori
• February 17 - British parliament accept Irish Free State
• February 25 - Henri Desire Landru 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.
• March 1 - Ice mass breaks the Oder dam in Breslau
• March 1 - British Civil Aviation Authority established
• March 11 - Mohandas Gandhi arrested in Bombay for sedition
• 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 sedition. 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 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 29 - British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley jailed for 7 years for fraud
• May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
• June 1 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
• June 22 - IRA agents 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 - Assassianation 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.
• 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 commissioner is poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates
• 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 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.
• 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 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

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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 22 - Leonel Brizola, politician
• 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
• 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
• August 17 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
• August 23 - George Kell, Baseball Hall of Famer
• September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, Italian actor and director
• September 3 - Salli Terri, mezzo soprano (d. 1996)
• September 8 - Sid Caesar, actor, comedian
• September 15 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
• September 25 - Hammer DeRoburt, founding president of Nauru (d. 1992)
• October 5 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez, Formula One driver
• 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
• Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, later Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, later Sultan of Selangor and 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

• 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.
• March 1 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish football player (b. 1892)
• April 1 - Emperor Karl of Austria
• April 2 - Hermann Rorschach
• May 19 - Son, Byong-Hi, one of the leaders of the Samil, or March 1st Movement in Korea
• June 6 - Lillian Russell, singer, vaudeville star
• 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

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

• 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, President of Germany (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).