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.
- 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 20, 1922 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- 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.
- May 19, 1922 – The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
- May 30, 1922 – In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
- June 12, 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
- June 16, 1922 – General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.
- 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”.
- 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 20, 1922 – The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
- 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 4, 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
- December 6, 1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
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