1922 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1922?
- January 10, 1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
- January 11, 1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
- January 28, 1922 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 27, 1922 – 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 in Leser v. Garnett.
- February 28, 1922 – The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
- 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.
- March 18, 1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
- 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.
- May 19, 1922 – The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
- June 29, 1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge “freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes”.
- July 24, 1922 – the draft of The British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; and which came into effect on 26 September 1923.
- August 27, 1922 – The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.
- August 29, 1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
- August 30, 1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War (“Turkish War of Independence”).
- September 11, 1922 – One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia’s predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
- September 13, 1922 – The temperature at 'Aziziya, Libya reaches a world record 57.8 °C.
- November 14, 1922 – The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
- December 30, 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
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