Major Events
- Jan 11 Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, Frederick Banting injects fellow Canadian Leonard Thompson, aged 14
- Feb 2 James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" first published by Sylvia Beach in Paris (1,000 copies)
- Feb 21 Britain declares Egypt a sovereign state
- Mar 18 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to six years imprisonment for disobedience
- Apr 3 Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin
- Sep 21 US President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
- Oct 3 1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.
- Nov 1 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk takes Constantinople from Mehmed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire
- Nov 4 Howard Carter rediscovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt
- Nov 17 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship
- Nov 26 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt
- Dec 30 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, organized as a union (U) of Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR).
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1922 in Film & TV
- Mar 4 1st vampire film "Nosferatu", an un-authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, premieres at the Berlin Zoological Garden, Germany
- Oct 18 British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded, later called British Broadcasting Corporation
- Nov 14 BBC begins daily radio broadcasts from the 2LO transmitter at Marconi House
- Nov 26 1st successful Technicolor movie (The Toll of the Sea), premieres at the Rialto Theatre in NYC
- Dec 24 BBC broadcasts first British radio play "The Truth about Father Christmas"
1922 in Sport
- Apr 29 1st official International Weightlifting Federation Champ in Tallinn, Estonia
- May 29 US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws
- Oct 5 NY Yankees and NY Giants play out a controversial 3-3 tie in 10 innings in Game 2 of Baseball World Series at Polo Grounds, Manhattan, NYC; Giants win series, 4-0-1
Did You Know?
Intergovernmental Conference on Identity Certificates for Russian Refugees, convened by Fridtjof Nansen in Geneva, creates the Nansen passports (for stateless persons)
Yitzhak Rabin
Jack Kerouac
Christiaan Barnard
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Charles M. Schulz
Stan Lee
Betty White
Carl Reiner
Doris Day
Christopher Lee
Judy Garland
Ava Gardner
Charlie Sifford
Jake LaMotta
Hoyt Wilhelm
Hank Bauer
Emil Zátopek
Eugene StonerMore People Born in 1922
Fun Fact About 1922
"Straw Hat Riot" begins in New York City as youths aggressively taunt men wearing straw hats, getting an early jump on unofficial season's end date of September 15; confrontations continue longer than usual, lasting 8 days
Ernest Shackleton
Benedict XV
Nellie Bly
Alexander Graham Bell
Enver Pasha
Michael CollinsMore 1922 Deaths
Articles About 1922
Record-Breaking Sheila, the High-Flying Aviator
The Sky's was the limit for Sheila Scott who made three solo flights around the world and was the first pilot, male or female, to fly over the North Pole.April 27
End of the Ottoman Empire
The last Ottoman sultan, Mehmed VI, departs his palace in Istanbul after the abolition of the monarchyNovember 1
Soviet Union Founded
Signature page of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSRDecember 30
Famous Weddings in 1922
- Feb 3 German politician and future Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering (30) weds Swedish countess Carin Hulda Fock (34) until her death in 1931
- Feb 14 Soldier Douglas MacArthur (42) marries 1st wife heiress Louise Cromwell Brooks (32)
- Feb 18 Football player George Halas (27) weds Minnie Bushing
Famous Divorces in 1922
- Aug 9 Actress Gloria Swanson (23) divorces businessman Herbert K. Somborn after almost 3 years of marriage
- Nov 13 American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (55) divorces socialite Catherine Tobin after 33 years of marriage
More 1922 Weddings
Claude Monet
David Lloyd George
Vladimir Lenin
Warren G. Harding