1922 in History

Events 1 - 100 of 282

• Jan 1 Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road
• Jan 1 Coal miners in the Transvaal, South Africa, embark on a strike in response to a wage cut, which quickly escalated into a large-scale revolt against the government, known as the Rand Rebellion.
• Jan 3 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
• Jan 6 -13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments

• Jan 9 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
• Jan 9 Rotterdam metalworkers strike ends
• Jan 11 Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, on Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada
• Jan 13 Buck Weaver, a Black Sox, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement
• Jan 13 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended
• Jan 13 WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions
• Jan 15 Arthur Griffith is elected president of the Irish Free State after Eamon de Valera resigns in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty (De Valera will lead a military opposition seeking a unified and independent Ireland)
• Jan 18 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
• Jan 19 Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years
• Jan 20 Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres, Paris
• Jan 21 1st slalom ski race run at Murren, Switzerland


• Jan 24 -54°F (-48°C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)
• Jan 24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
• Jan 24 Lehman Caves National Monument established
• Jan 28 Knickerbocker Storm, Washington, D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses, killing 98 patrons
• Jan 29 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved
• Jan 30 Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW
• Jan 30 World Law Day 1st celebrated
• Feb 2 It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22

• Feb 4 WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
• Feb 4 After boycotts and international pressure, Japan agrees to return Shantung Province to China

• Feb 5 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published
• Feb 6 Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
• Feb 6 US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
• Feb 7 John Willard's "Cat & the Canary" premieres in NYC
• Feb 8 Radio arrives at the White House
• Feb 9 Italian government of Bonomi falls
• Feb 9 Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
• Feb 9 Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• Feb 9 World War Foreign Debt Commission is established by Congress to settle the problem of Allied war and postwar loans
• Feb 11 US intervention army leaves Honduras
• Feb 11 Influential arts festival Semana de Arte Moderna (Modern Art Week) opens in São Paulo - the beginning of Modernism in Brazil

• Feb 18 WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions


• Feb 18 The Capper-Volstead Act allows farmers to buy and sell co-operatively without the risk of prosecution under antitrust laws
• Feb 19 Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer
• Feb 20 Marc Connelly & George Kaufman's "To the Ladies" premieres in NYC
• Feb 20 Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
• Feb 20 WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions
• Feb 21 Airship "Rome" explodes at Hampton Roads, Virginia; 34 die
• Feb 21 Britain declares Egypt a sovereign state
• Feb 21 WHK-AM in Cleveland, Ohio begins radio transmissions
• Feb 21 Irish Nationalist Eamon De Valera calls a convention of the Sinn Fein, declaring the Republican Government the only legitimate one in all Ireland
• Feb 22 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
• Feb 22 London issues a unilateral declaration of Egyptian independence

• Feb 27 G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II" premieres in NYC
• Feb 27 US Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th amendment to the US Constuituent - women's right to vote
• Feb 28 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
• Mar 2 WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
• Mar 2 WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
• Mar 3 Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka
• Mar 3 WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
• Mar 5 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
• Mar 6 GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV" premieres in NYC
• Mar 7 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
• Mar 7 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
• Mar 9 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape" premieres in NYC
• Mar 9 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
• Mar 10 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
• Mar 10 State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa
• Mar 11 Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games

• Mar 13 WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
• Mar 14 KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
• Mar 14 KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
• Mar 14 WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
• Mar 15 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
• Mar 15 Sultan Faud crowned King of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
• Mar 15 France, which up until now has insisted on currency for all WWI reparation payments from Germany, now accepts raw materials as payment
• Mar 16 Egypt achieves independence from Britain, but British troops remain
• Mar 16 WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
• Mar 18 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)

• Mar 18 WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
• Mar 18 The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City.
• Mar 20 USS Langley is commissioned, US Navy's 1st aircraft carrier
• Mar 20 WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
• Mar 21 KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
• Mar 22 The Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa, which started as a strike by white mineworkers and became an armed rebellion against the state, is brought to a brutal end by the police
• Mar 23 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C.
• Mar 23 KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions
• Mar 23 WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
• Mar 28 1st microfilm device introduced
• Mar 30 KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
• Mar 30 WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions
• Mar 31 KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
• Mar 31 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam

• Apr 4 WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls
• Apr 5 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
• Apr 5 WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 287

• Jan 1 Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, American Democratic Senator from South Carolina (1966-2005), born in Charleston, South Carolina
• Jan 3 Morten Nielsen, Danish poet/resistance fighter
• Jan 5 Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot, Chief of the Australian Defence Force, born in Corowa, Australia (d. 2001)
• Jan 7 Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist
• Jan 7 Alvin Dark, American baseball player & manager, born in Comanche, Oklahoma, (d. 2014)
• Jan 9 Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist (Nobel 1968), born in Raipur, Punjab, British India (d. 2011)
• Jan 9 Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea, born in Faranah, Guinea (d. 1984)
• Jan 11 Neville Duke, English test pilot
• Jan 11 Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986)
• Jan 12 Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist and art historian, born in Bratkowice, Poland (d. 1994)
• Jan 15 Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician, born in Murwillumbah, Australia (d. 1999)
• Jan 17 Luis Echeverria Alvarez, president Mexico
• Jan 17 Nicholas Katzenbach, lawyer (US Attorney General), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)
• Jan 18 Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
• Jan 19 Ken Hughes, director (Casino Royale), born in Liverpool, England
• Jan 20 Lord James Hanson, English industrialist/House of Lords (Conservative)
• Jan 21 Jean P Vroom, Dutch sculptor
• Jan 22 Howard Moss, poet/editor (New Yorker)
• Jan 24 Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
• Jan 25 Jules P de Palm, Antilles writer
• Jan 27 Wilfrid Bourne, QC/Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
• Jan 28 Robert W Holley, American biochemist, worked with RNA (Nobel '68)
• Jan 29 Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
• Jan 31 Michael Wilford, diplomat
• Feb 1 Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, professor of Cushtic Languages
• Feb 3 Bill Chappell Jr, (Rep-D-FL, 1969- )
• Feb 4 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian classical singer (khayal form of singing, bhajans, abhangs), born in Ron, Karnataka, India (d. 1987)
• Feb 10 Harold Hughes, Ida County Iowa, Governor of Iowa (D) and US Senator
• Feb 10 Árpád Göncz, Hungarian politician, 1st post-communist President (1990-2000), born in Budapest (d. 2015)
• Feb 13 Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs
• Feb 13 Gordon Tullock, American economist
• Feb 13 Tristram Coffin, San Marino, California, folklorist (The Book of Christmas Folklore, The Old Ball Game), (d. 2012)
• Feb 15 Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable)
• Feb 15 John Bayard Anderson, American politician
• Feb 15 John B Anderson, American Republican politician and presidential candidate (1980), born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 2017)
• Feb 16 Paul van 't Veer, Dutch journalist/writer (Het Vrije Volk)
• Feb 17 Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
• Feb 18 Eric Gairy, first Prime Minister of Grenada (1974-1979)
• Feb 18 Helen Gurley Brown, American author/publisher and editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, born in Green Forest, Arkansas, (d. 2012)
• Feb 18 Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971)
• Feb 19 Beant Singh, politiician
• Feb 22 William J. Baumol, American economist (Baumol’s cost disease), born in South Bronx, New York (d. 2017)
• Feb 24 Richard Hamilton, painter
• Feb 27 Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
• Feb 27 Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
• Mar 1 William M Gaines, publisher (MAD Magazine)

• Mar 5 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bologna Italy, director (Teorema, Pigsty)
• Mar 6 Ruben Ayala, Chino, California, politician (California State Senator 1974-1998) (d. 2012)
• Mar 7 Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
• Mar 8 Carl Furillo, Brooklyn Dodger (NL Batting Champ 1953)
• Mar 8 Heinar Kipphardt, German writer and playwright (In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer), born in Heidersdorf, Lower Silesia (d. 1982)
• Mar 8 Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and Manga artist (GeGeGe no Kitarō), born in Sakaiminato, Tittori (d. 2015)
• Mar 8 Ralph Baer, Creator of the first video game console
• Mar 11 Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77)
• Mar 11 Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist, born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1997)

• Mar 12 Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO)
• Mar 14 Colin Fletcher, Welsh author and pioneering baackpacker (Walking Through Time), born in Cardiff, Wales (d. 2007)
• Mar 16 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
• Mar 16 Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)
• Mar 17 Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)

• Mar 18 Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician, born in Treffurt, Thuringia (d. 2015)

• Mar 20 Arnold Burgen, college president (Academia Europaea)
• Mar 20 Doug Barnard Jr, (Rep-D-GA, 1977- )
• Mar 24 Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
• Mar 25 Tobias Schneebaum, American writer, anthropologist and explorer, born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)
• Mar 26 William Milliken, American politician, longest serving Governor of Michigan (1969-83), born in Traverse City, Michigan
• Mar 26 Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist
• Mar 27 Margaret Stacey, English sociologist who helped shape the distinctively British genre of empirical sociology, born in London (d. 2004)
• Mar 27 Stefan Wul, French sci-fi author (The Temple of the Past), born in Paris (d. 2003)
• Mar 28 Neville Bonner, the first Indigenous Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia, born in Ukerebagh Island, New South Wales (d. 1999)
• Mar 30 J F Coates, naval architect
• Apr 1 William Manchester, Attleboro Mass, historian (Death of a President)
• Apr 2 Nicolay G. Basov, Soviet physicist who specialized in quantum electronics (laser, maser) and 1964 Nobel laureate, born in Usman, Russia (d. 2001)
• Apr 9 Carl Amery [Christian Anton Mayer], German writer, born in Munich (d. 2005)
• Apr 9 Gerald Moverley, first Bishop of the Diocese of Hallam in Yorkshire, born in Bradford, England (d. 1996)
• Apr 9 Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service, born in Reigate, Surrey (d. 2012)
• Apr 11 Antoine Blondin, French writer (L'Europe buissonnière), born in Paris (d. 1991)
• Apr 13 John Braine, English novelist (Life at the Top)
• Apr 13 Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician and 1st President of Tanzania (1964-1985), born in Butiama, Tanganyika (d. 1999)
• Apr 15 Harold Washington, 1st African American mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87)
• Apr 16 Christopher Samuel Youd, UK, sci-fi author (Tripods Trilogy), (d. 2012)
• Apr 16 Kingsley Amis, English novelist (Lucky Jim, James Bond Dossier), born in London (d. 1995)
• Apr 16 Leo Tindemans, Belgian statesman, Prime Minister of Belgium (1974-78), born in Zwijndrecht,
• Apr 19 Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot (downed 352 Russian aircrafts)
• Apr 19 Luigi Barbbarito, reverend (Apostolic ProNuncio)
• Apr 22 Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, American painter (Ocean Park Paintings)
• Apr 23 Boy Ecury [Segundo Jorge Adelberto Ecury], member of the Dutch Resistance in World War II, born in Oranjestad, Aruba (d. 1944)
• Apr 23 Diarmuid Downs, British automotive engineer, born in London (d. 2014)
• Apr 26 James Holt, medieval historian
• Apr 26 Margaret Scott, founder (Australian Ballet School)
• Apr 26 Pol Bury, Belgian sculptor
• Apr 26 Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician (d. 1993)
• Apr 27 Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer, holocaust survivor, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 2016)
• Apr 28 Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician (Volksunie)
• Apr 28 Iser J Koepermann, Russian/US world checkers champ (1958-68, 75-76)
• Apr 28 William S Broomfield, (Rep-R-MI, 1956- )

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• Feb 28 English Princess Mary marries Viscount Lascelles at Westminster Abbey
• Jul 18 British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple's daughter Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret's in Westminster, London

• Jan 6 Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (algebraic geometry and invariant theory), dies at 79
• Jan 7 Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole, Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii, dies at 50
• Jan 8 Charles R Young, colonel, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria
• Jan 10 Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
• Jan 15 John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
• Jan 22 Benedict XV [Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa], Italian pope (1914-22), dies at 67
• Jan 27 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81
• Feb 3 Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67
• Feb 3 John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
• Feb 5 Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
• Feb 11 Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67
• Feb 14 Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (Minister of the Interior), assassinated at 41
• Feb 15 Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36
• Feb 23 Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
• Feb 25 Henri Désiré Landru, French sex murderer, guillotined at 52
• Mar 22 Louis-Antoine Ranvier, French anatomist and historian, dies at 86
• Apr 1 Charles I, emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies
• Apr 1 Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person measuring 2.41 metres (7 ft 11 in) at the time of her death, dies at 26
• Apr 2 Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
• Apr 5 Charles F A Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice, dies at 85
• Apr 9 Patrick Manson, Scottish physician and parasitologist (Father of tropical medicine), dies at 77
• Apr 21 Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
• Apr 30 David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies
• May 4 Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
• May 18 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
• May 19 Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79
• May 30 David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45
• Jun 4 William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies
• Jun 6 Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60
• Jun 9 Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 56
• Jun 12 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63
• Jun 18 John C Kapteyn, astronomer, dies at 71
• Jun 19 Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71
• Jun 22 Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London
• Jun 24 Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54
• Jun 26 Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73
• Jun 28 Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright, dies at 36
• Jul 4 Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot, dies at 27
• Jul 6 Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
• Jul 7 Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
• Jul 13 Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
• Jul 17 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
• Jul 19 Cornelis Adrianus Pekelharing, Dutch physician, dies on 74th birthday
• Jul 20 Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
• Jul 21 Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered
• Jul 22 Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
• Jul 22 John Motley Morehead III, American Chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide, important for welding), dies at 67
• Jul 29 Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist and archaeologist, dies at 81

• Aug 2 Mina Kruseman, Dutch author and feminist, dies at 82
• Aug 4 Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40
• Aug 12 Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies
• Aug 14 Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies

• Aug 28 Gaston of Orleans, Count of Eu, dies at 80
• Sep 4 Georges Sorel, French philosopher and theorist of Sorelianism, dies at 74
• Sep 5 Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
• Sep 30 Paul Barth, German philosopher and sociologist, dies at 64
• Oct 12 Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33
• Oct 12 Margriet Baers, Flemish philosopher and social worker, dies at 33
• Oct 24 George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (Cadbury), dies at 83
• Oct 28 Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer and poet (Flemish Motion), dies at 81
• Nov 16 Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
• Nov 17 Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
• Nov 18 Marcel Proust, French intellectual and author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
• Nov 21 Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
• Dec 5 Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies
• Dec 12 John Wanamaker, American merchant (Wanamakers Department Store), pioneer in marketing and Postmaster General, dies at 84
• Dec 13 Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861)
• Dec 16 Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated

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