1922 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1922?
- January 10, 1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
- January 28, 1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city’s greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
- February 8, 1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
- March 10, 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
- April 1, 1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- April 5, 1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
- April 21, 1922 – The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A&M graduates who had died in the previous year.
- April 24, 1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
- June 30, 1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
- August 2, 1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
- August 22, 1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na mBláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
- October 18, 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
- October 27, 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country’s annexation to the South African Union.
- October 28, 1922 – March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
- October 30, 1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
- November 1, 1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
- November 21, 1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
- December 9, 1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
- December 27, 1922 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
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