1922

Events

   * January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of D‡il ƒireann
   * 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 HonorŽ Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince
     Louis II of Monaco.
   * August 12 - death of Arthur Griffith, President of D‡il ƒireann
   * 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.
   * November 1 - Ottoman Empire was abolished and its last sultan Mehmed VI
     Vahdettin abdicated.
   * 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.
   * 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

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 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 ƒireann
   * August 22 - Michael Collins assassinated.
   * September 4 - Sarah L. Winchester, builder of the Winchester Mystery
     House

Nobel Prizes

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

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