1922
1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
May 30 - In Washington, D.C. , the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
June 1 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary .
June 22 - IRA rebels are assassinated by British field marshal Henry Wilson in Belgravia - assassins are sentenced to death July 18 .
June 24 - Assassination of Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau - murderers are captured July 17
June 26 - Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco .
June 28 - The Irish Civil War begins
August 12 - Assassination of Arthur Griffith , President of Dáil Éireann
August 22 - Death of General Michael Collins - President of the Irish Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Army, killed in an ambush.
August 23 - Revolt against the Spanish in Morocco
August 28 - Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia
September 9 - Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter Smyrna
September 11 - One of the Herald Sun Melbourne, Australia 's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
September 13 - 15 - Fire, probably started by Turkish troops, destroys most of Smyrna . Death toll estimated 100.000
September 18 - Hungary joins the League of Nations
October 9 - Sir William Horwood , London Metropolitan Police Service commissioner is poisoned by arsenic -filled chocolates
October 25 - The Irish Constituent Assembly enacts the Constitution of the Irish Free State .
October 28 - In Italy , with the March on Rome , Fascism obtains power and Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister.
October 31 - Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy .
September 23 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
November 1 - Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last sultan Mehmed VI Vahdettin abdicates.
November 4 - In Egypt , British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen 's tomb in the Valley of the Kings .
November 14 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom .
November 17 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in Italy .
November 19 - Abdul Mejid II , Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire is elected Caliph .
November 21 - Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator .
November 24 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
November 26 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
Flag of the Irish Free State, and later the Republic of Ireland after independence from the British
Year in topic
Births
January to June
January 1 - Ernest "Fritz" Hollings , South Carolina senator
January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal , French flutist (d. 2000 )
January 13 - Albert Lamorisse , film director (d. 1970 )
January 16 - Ernesto Bonino , Italian singer
January 17 - Nicholas Katzenbach , American politician
January 17 - Betty White , American television actress
January 21 - Paul Scofield , English actor
January 22 - Leonel Brizola , politician
January 30 - Dick Martin , comedian
February 1 - Renata Tebaldi , Italian soprano
February 6 - Patrick Macnee , actor
February 6 - Bill Johnston , Australian cricketer
February 7 - Hattie Jacques , actress (d. 1980 )
February 9 - Kathryn Grayson , actress
February 11 - Tudor Jarda , composer.
February 15 - John Bayard Anderson , U.S Congressman and presidential candidate
February 17 - Marshall Teague , race car driver (d. 1959 )
February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown , American editor and publisher
February 24 - Richard Hamilton , painter
February 24 - Steven Hill , actor
March 1 - William Gaines , publisher and founder of MAD Magazine (d. 1992 )
March 1 - Yitzhak Rabin , Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995 )
March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini , Italian film director
March 8 - Heinar Kipphardt , dramatist, lyricist, narrator (d. 1982 )
March 8 - Mizuki Shigeru , Japanese manga artist
March 9 - Tommy Cooper , British comedian and magician
March 12 - Jack Kerouac , American author
March 18 - Egon Bahr , politician
March 20 - Carl Reiner , director, producer, actor, comedian
March 21 - Russ Meyer , film director, producer
March 28 - Felice Chiusano , Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra )
March 28 - Joey Maxim , American boxer
March 31 - Richard Kiley , actor, singer (d. 1999 )
April 1 - William Manchester , writer
April 4 - Elmer Bernstein , composer
April 5 - Gale Storm , American singer and actress
April 7 - Mongo Santamaria , jazz musician (d. 2003 )
April 16 - Sir Kingsley Amis , English novelist (d. 1995 )
April 22 - Charles Mingus , musician (d. 1979 )
April 28 - Alistair MacLean , writer
May 7 - Darren McGavin , actor
May 14 - Franjo Tuđman , president of Croatia (d. 1999 )
May 15 - Setouchi Jakucho , Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
May 17 - Antje Weisgerber , actress
May 18 - Kai Winding , jazz musician (d. 1983 )
May 21 - James Lopez Watson , American judge (d. 2001 )
May 22 - Quinn Martin , television producer (d. 1987 )
May 25 - Enrico Berlinguer , politician (d. 1984 )
May 27 - Christopher Lee , actor
May 28 - Lou Duva , boxing trainer
May 29 - Iannis Xenakis , Greek composer
May 30 - Hal Clement , science fiction writer
May 31 - Denholm Elliott , actor (d. 1992 )
June 2 - Charlie Sifford , American golfer
June 10 - Judy Garland , American singer and actress
June 24 - Tata Giacobetti , Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra )
June 29 - Vasko Popa , Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991 )
July to December
July 18 - Thomas Kuhn , philosopher of science
August 17 - Agostinho Neto , Angolan politician (d. 1979 )
August 23 - George Kell , Baseball Hall of Famer
September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann , Italian actor and director
September 3 - Salli Terri , mezzo-soprano (d. 1996 )
September 8 - Sid Caesar , actor and comedian
September 12 - Jackson Mac Low , poet (d. 2004 )
September 15 - Jackie Cooper , American actor and director
September 25 - Hammer DeRoburt , first President of Nauru (d. 1992 )
October 5 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez , race car driver
October 15 - Luigi Giussani , Catholic priest and founder of Communion and Liberation (d. 2005 )
November 8 - Christiaan Barnard , South African surgeon (d. 2001 )
November 11 - Kurt Vonnegut , American novelist
November 14 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali , Secretary General of the United Nations
December 22 - Barbara Billingsley , American actress
December 22 - Jack Brooks , American politician
December 23 - Micheline Ostermeyer , French athlete and musician
December 28 - Stan Lee , comics creator
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman , Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj , Sultan of Selangor and 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
Deaths
January 5 - Ernest Shackleton , Irish explorer (b. 1874 )
January 22 - Pope Benedict XV
February 2 - William Desmond Taylor , film director
February 11 - Gerardus J. P. Bolland , Dutch philosopher.
March 1 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi , Spanish footballer (b. 1892 )
March 24 - Walter Robinson Parr , British preacher
April 1 - Emperor Karl of Austria
April 2 - Hermann Rorschach , psychologist
May 19 - Son, Byong-Hi , leader of the March 1st Movement in Korea
June 6 - Lillian Russell , singer, vaudeville star
June 18 - Jacobus Kapteyn , Dutch astronomer
June 26 - Albert I of Monaco
July 20 - Andrey Markov , mathematician
August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell , father of the telephone.
August 5 - Harry Boland, Irish republican
August 12 - Arthur Griffith , President of Dбil Йireann
August 22 - Michael Collins , Irish leader (assassinated
September 4 - Sarah L. Winchester , builder of the Winchester Mystery House
Heads of state in 1922
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