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 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 15, 1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
- April 1, 1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- April 7, 1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
- 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.
- May 19, 1922 – The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
- 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.
- 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.
- September 13, 1922 – The temperature at 'Aziziya, Libya reaches a world record 57.8 °C.
- November 1, 1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
- November 24, 1922 – Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
- December 6, 1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
- December 16, 1922 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
- December 30, 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
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