1922

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 - 1922 - 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927

• January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann
• January 11 - First successful insulin treatment of diabetes.
• January 15 - Michael Collins becomes head of the (Irish) Provisional Government[?]
• January 24 - Christian K. Nelson[?] patents the Eskimo Pie[?].
• January 29 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved
• February 6 - Achille Ratti become Pope Pius XI.
• February 8 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
• February 27 - 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.
• March 15 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt[?].
• March 18 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
• March 20 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
• April 7 - Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
• May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
• June - Start of Irish Civil War
• August 12 - death of Arthur Griffith, President of Dáil Éireann
• August 22 - Assassination of General Michael Collins - President of the Irish Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Army.
• October 28 - In Italy, with the March on Rome, Fascism obtains power and Mussolini becomes prime minister.
• November 1 - Ottoman Empire was abolished and its last sultan Mehmed VI Vahdettin abdicated.
• November 17 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI went on exile in Italy
• December 6 - The Irish Free State comes into existence. Tim Healy appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, W.T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council.
• December 30 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.

• Invention of Vegemite by Australian Fred Walker

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1922 in film
• 1922 in literature
• 1922 in music
• 1922 in sports

Births

• January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal[?], musician
• January 13 - Albert Lamorisse[?], film director (+ 1970)
• January 17 - Betty White[?], actress
• January 17 - Nicholas Katzenbach[?], politician
• January 21 - Paul Scofield, actor
• January 30 - Dick Martin[?], comedian
• February 6 - Patrick Macnee, actor
• February 7 - Hattie Jacques, actress (+ 1980)
• February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, actress
• February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor.
• February 11 - Tudor Jarda[?], composer.
• February 15 - John Bayard Anderson, U.S Representative and presidential candidate
• February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown[?], editor, publisher
• February 24 - Richard Hamilton, pop-art painter
• February 24 - Steven Hill[?], actor
• March 1 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (+ 1995)
• March 1 - William Gaines, publisher, founder of MAD Magazine (+ 1992)
• March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
• March 8 - Heinar Kipphardt[?], dramatist, lyricist, narrator (+ 1922)
• March 12 - Jack Kerouac, US author
• March 18 - Egon Bahr[?], politician
• March 20 - Carl Reiner, director, producer, actor, comedian
• March 21 - Russ Meyer, pornographic film director, producer
• March 31 - Richard Kiley[?], actor, singer (+ 1999)
• April 1 - William Manchester[?], writer
• April 4 - Elmer Bernstein, composer
• April 5 - Gale Storm, singer/actress
• April 7 - Mongo Santamaria[?], Latin jazz[?] musician (+ 2003)
• April 22 - Charles Mingus, musician
• April 22 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English novelist (+ 1995)
• April 28 - Alistair Maclean[?], actor
• May 7 - Darren McGavin[?], actor
• May 14 - Franjo Tudjman, president of Croatia (+ 1999)
• May 17 - Dennis Brain, French horn player
• May 17 - Antje Weisgerber[?], actress
• May 18 - Kai Winding, jazz musician (+ 1983)
• May 22 - Quinn Martin[?], television producer (+ 1987)
• May 25 - Enrico Berlinguer, politician (+ 1984)
• May 27 - Christopher Lee, actor
• May 28 - Lou Duva, boxing trainer
• May 29 - Iannis Xenakis, composer
• May 30 - Hal Clement, science fiction writer
• May 31 - Denholm Elliott, actor (+ 1992)
• July 18 - Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science
• September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, Italian actor and director
• September 15 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
• November 8 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon
• November 14 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the U.N.
• December 24-Howard R Grinde[?],U.S Army soldier in WWII

Deaths

• January 5 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer
• January 22 - Pope Benedict XV
• February 2 - William Desmond Taylor[?], film director
• February 11 - Gerardus J. P. Bolland[?], Dutch philosopher.
• April 1 - Emperor Karl of Austria
• April 2 - Hermann Rorschach[?]
• June 26 - Albert I of Monaco
• August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone.
• August 5 - Harry Boland, Irish republican, killed in the Irish Civil War
• August 12 - Arthur Griffith, President of Dáil Éireann
• August 22 - Michael Collins assassinated.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Niels Henrik David Bohr
• Chemistry - Francis William Aston[?]
• Medicine - Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof[?]
• Literature - Jacinto Benavente[?]
• Peace - Fridtjof Nansen