1922 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1922?
- January 11, 1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
- 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 6, 1922 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
- February 9, 1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- March 15, 1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
- April 7, 1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
- April 20, 1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
- June 1, 1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
- June 22, 1922 – Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
- 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.
- July 9, 1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
- July 11, 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
- July 20, 1922 – The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
- September 9, 1922 – The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
- September 11, 1922 – The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
- October 29, 1922 – The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
- November 1, 1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
- December 6, 1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
- December 30, 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
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