Today in History for Year 1922

Months in Year 1922: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 335

Jan 1st - Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road
Jan 3rd - 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
Jan 6th - -13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
Jan 9th - KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
Jan 9th - Rotterdam metal strike ends
Jan 11th - Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
Jan 13th - Buck Weaver, a Black Sox, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement
Jan 13th - Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended
Jan 13th - WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions
Jan 15th - Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
Jan 18th - Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
Jan 19th - Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years
Jan 20th - Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres, Paris
Jan 21st - 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland
Jan 24th - -54°F (-48°C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)
Jan 24th - Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
Jan 24th - Lehman Caves National Monument established
Jan 26th - Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London
Jan 28th - American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"
Jan 28th - J E Clair turns Green Bay franchise back to NFL
Jan 28th - Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
Jan 29th - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
Jan 30th - Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW
Jan 30th - World Law Day, 1st celebrated
Feb 2nd - It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22
Novelist & Poet James Joyce Feb 2nd - James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)
Feb 4th - WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
Feb 5th - Reader's Digest magazine 1st published
Feb 6th - Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
Feb 6th - US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
Feb 7th - John Willard's "Cat & the Canary," premieres in NYC
Feb 8th - Radio arrives at the White House
Feb 9th - Italian government of Bonomi falls
Feb 9th - Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
Feb 9th - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Feb 11th - "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1
Feb 11th - US intervention army leaves Honduras
Feb 15th - Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex
Feb 18th - Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
Feb 18th - WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
Feb 19th - Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer
Feb 20th - Marc Connelly & George Kaufman's "To the Ladies," premieres in NYC
Feb 20th - Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
Feb 20th - WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions
Feb 21st - Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
Feb 21st - Great Britain grants Egypt independence
Feb 21st - WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions
Feb 22nd - Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
31st US President Herbert Hoover Feb 27th - Commerce Sec Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
Feb 27th - G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in NYC
Feb 27th - Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
Feb 28th - Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
Feb 28th - KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
Mar 2nd - WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
Mar 2nd - WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
Mar 3rd - Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka
Mar 3rd - WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
Mar 5th - "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
Mar 6th - Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year NY Yankee contract
Mar 6th - GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premieres in NYC
Mar 7th - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
Mar 7th - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
Mar 9th - Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in NYC
Baseball Great Babe Ruth Mar 9th - KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
Mar 10th - KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
Mar 10th - State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa
Mar 11th - Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games
Mar 13th - George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in NYC
Mar 13th - WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
Mar 13th - NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
Mar 14th - KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
Mar 14th - KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
Mar 14th - WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
Mar 15th - 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
Mar 16th - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
Mar 16th - WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
Mar 18th - 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)
Mar 18th - Brit magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi Mar 18th - Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
Mar 18th - WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
Mar 18th - The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City.
Mar 20th - USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier
Mar 20th - WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
Mar 21st - KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
Mar 22nd - British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
Mar 23rd - 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, DC
Mar 23rd - KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions
Mar 23rd - WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
Mar 24th - Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish
Mar 28th - 1st microfilm device introduced
Mar 28th - Stanley Cup: Toronto St Pats (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
Mar 30th - KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
Mar 30th - WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions
Mar 31st - KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
Mar 31st - Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin Apr 3rd - Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
Apr 4th - WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls
Apr 5th - KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
Apr 5th - WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
Apr 7th - Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 619

Jan 1st - Ernest F Hollings, (Sen-D-SC, 1966- )
Jan 2nd - Jason Evers, NYC, actor (Wrangler, Channing)
Jan 2nd - Nico Schuyt, composer
Jan 2nd - Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano
Jan 3rd - Bill Travers, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, actor (Born Free, Gorgo)
Jan 3rd - Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning)
Jan 3rd - Morten Nielsen, Denmark, poet/resistance fighter
Jan 4th - Frank Wess, flutist/saxophonist/composer
Jan 4th - Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (d. 1997)
Jan 5th - Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot, Chief of the Australian Defence Force (d. 2001)
Jan 6th - Finn Einar Mortensen, composer
Jan 7th - Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist
Jan 7th - Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law)
Jan 8th - Abbey Simon, NYC, pianist
Jan 9th - Har G Khorana, India/Canada bio-chemist (Nobel 1968)
Jan 9th - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
Jan 11th - Kathleen Byron, London England, actress (Abdication, Profile, 4 Days)
Jan 11th - Neville Duke, English test pilot
Jan 11th - Tony Charmoli, Minn, choreographer (Cher, Julie Andrew)
Jan 11th - Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986)
Jan 12th - Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist and art historian (d. 1994)
Jan 15th - Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician (d. 1999)
Jan 16th - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
Jan 17th - Betty White, Oak Park, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls)
Jan 17th - Luis Echeverria Alvarez, president Mexico
Jan 17th - Nicholas Katzenbach, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lawyer (US Attorney General), (d. 2012)
Jan 18th - Constance Moore, Sioux City Iowa, actress (Window on Main Street)
Jan 18th - Yehezkiel Braun, composer
Jan 18th - Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
Jan 19th - Arthur Morris, cricketer (great Australian lefty opening batsman)
Jan 19th - Guy Madison, [Robert Moseley], California, actor (Wild Bill Hickok)
Jan 19th - Ken Hughes, Liverpool England, director (Casino Royale)
Jan 20th - Lord James Hanson, English industrialist/House of Lords (Conservative)
Jan 20th - Ray Anthony, Penn, orchestra leader (Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme)
Jan 20th - Ray Anthony, American trumpeter, bandleader and actor
Jan 21st - Jean P Vroom, Dutch sculptor
Jan 21st - Paul Scofield, Hurst England, actor (Man for All Seasons, Train)
Jan 21st - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
Jan 22nd - Howard Moss, poet/editor (New Yorker)
Jan 24th - Neil Franklin, soccer star
Jan 24th - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
Jan 25th - Jules P de Palm, Antilles writer
Jan 25th - Raymond Baxter, British TV host/author (Fast Lady)
Jan 26th - Michael Bentine, England, author/comedian (Reluctant Jester)
Jan 27th - Wilfrid Bourne, QC/Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
Jan 28th - Robert W Holley, US, biochemist, worked with RNA (Nobel '68)
Jan 29th - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
Jan 30th - Dick Martin, Detroit Mich, actor/comedian (Laugh-In, Carbon Copy)
Jan 30th - Pal Jardanyi, composer
Jan 31st - Michael Wilford, diplomat
Jan 31st - William Sylvester, Oakland California, actor (2001, Gorgo, Gemini Man)
Feb 1st - Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, professor of Cushtic Languages
Feb 1st - Clifford McWatt, cricketer (WI wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1954-55)
Feb 3rd - Bill Chappell Jr, (Rep-D-FL, 1969- )
Feb 4th - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer
Feb 5th - Bernard Kalb, spokesman (State Dept)/actor (Dave)
Feb 5th - Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (d. 1994)
Feb 6th - Patrick MacNee, London England, actor (Jonathan Steed-Avengers)
Feb 6th - Denis Norden, British television personality
Feb 7th - Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980)
Feb 8th - Joeri Averbach, Russian chess grandmaster
Feb 8th - Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
Feb 9th - James C "Jim" Laker, Bradford England, cricket off spinner
Feb 10th - Harold Hughes, (Gov-D-NJ)
Feb 10th - Neva Patterson, Iowa, actress (Governor & JJ, Doc Elliot, Nichols)
Feb 11th - Tudor Jarda, composer
Feb 13th - Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs
Feb 13th - Gordon Tullock, American economist
Feb 13th - Tristram Coffin, San Marino, California, folklorist (The Book of Christmas Folklore, The Old Ball Game), (d. 2012)
Feb 14th - Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle)
Feb 15th - Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable)
Feb 15th - John Bayard Anderson, American politician
Feb 16th - Geraint Evans, British opera vocalist (Knaben Wunderhorn)
Feb 16th - Paul van 't Veer, Dutch journalist/writer (Het Vrije Volk)
Feb 17th - Tommy Edwards, rock vocalist (It's All in the Game)
Feb 17th - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
Feb 17th - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
Feb 18th - Eric Gairy, premier (Grenada)
Feb 18th - Helen Gurley Brown, Portland Maine, US author/publisher and editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, (d. 2012)
Feb 18th - Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971)
Feb 19th - Beant Singh, politiician
Feb 19th - Josef Matej, composer
Feb 21st - Uros Krek, composer
Feb 22nd - Andre Asriel, composer
Feb 22nd - Felix Werder, composer
Feb 22nd - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
Feb 24th - Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
Feb 24th - Richard Hamilton, painter
Feb 24th - Steven Hill, Seattle WA, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law & Order)
Feb 25th - Matti Rautio, composer
Feb 26th - Bill Johnston, cricket pace bowler (mighty Australian lefty post-war)
Feb 26th - Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart)
Feb 27th - Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
Feb 27th - Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
Mar 1st - William M Gaines, publisher (MAD Magazine)
Mar 1st - Yitzak Rabin, premier (Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994)
Mar 2nd - Eric Feldbush, composer
Mar 2nd - Mario Zafred, composer
Mar 3rd - Kazimierz Serocki, composer
Mar 3rd - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

Feb 28th - English princess Mary marries Viscount Lascelles at Westminster Abbey
May 2nd - Dancer Isadora Duncan (44) weds Sergei Esenin (26)
May 13th - "Latin Lover" silent actor Rudolph Valentino (27) weds film costume and set designer Natacha Rambova (25) in Mexicali, Mexico
Jul 18th - British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple's daughter Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret's in Westminster, London
Sep 2nd - "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw
Sep 28th - Stage and film actor James Cagney (23) weds dancer Frances Vernon

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 101

Jan 5th - Ernest H Shackleton, Brit South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47
Jan 6th - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
Jan 7th - Antonio Scontrino, composer, dies at 71
Jan 8th - Charles R Young, colonel, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria
Jan 10th - Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
Jan 15th - John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
Jan 22nd - Benedictus XV, [Giacomo Markies D Chiesa], pope (1914-22), dies at 67
Jan 22nd - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
Jan 23rd - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
Jan 26th - Luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75
Jan 27th - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81
Jan 31st - Heinrich Reinhardt, composer, dies at 56
Feb 1st - William Desmond Taylor, director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49
Feb 3rd - Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67
Feb 3rd - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
Feb 5th - James William Tate, composer, dies at 46
Feb 5th - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
Feb 11th - Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67
Feb 14th - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)
Feb 15th - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36
Feb 23rd - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
Feb 24th - Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
Feb 25th - Henri-Desire Landru, French sex murderer, guillotined at 52
Feb 28th - Vicente Lleo, composer, dies at 51
Mar 1st - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
Mar 4th - Bert Williams, famous black, dies at 46, in NYC
Mar 10th - Arthur Hervey, composer, dies at 67
Mar 10th - Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73
Mar 22nd - Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86
Mar 27th - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63
Apr 1st - Charles I, emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies
Apr 2nd - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
Apr 5th - Charles F A Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice, dies at 85
Apr 12th - Frantisek Ondricek, composer, dies at 64
Apr 21st - Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
Apr 24th - Richard Batka, composer, dies at 53
Apr 26th - Hans Sommer, composer, dies at 84
Apr 30th - David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies
May 4th - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
May 7th - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
May 18th - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
May 19th - Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79
May 28th - Carl Teike, composer, dies at 58
May 29th - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director, dies at 39
May 30th - David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45
Jun 1st - Frank Walters, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 7 & 5), dies
Jun 4th - William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies
Jun 6th - Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60
Jun 9th - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 56
Jun 12th - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63
Jun 18th - John C Kapteyn, astronomer, dies at 71
Jun 19th - Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71
Jun 20th - Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54
Jun 22nd - Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London
Jun 24th - Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54
Jun 26th - Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73
Jun 28th - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
Jul 1st - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies at 81
Jul 4th - Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
Jul 6th - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
Jul 7th - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
Jul 13th - Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
Jul 17th - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
Jul 19th - Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday
Jul 20th - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
Jul 21st - Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered
Jul 22nd - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
Jul 25th - Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer, dies at 75
Jul 29th - Edward Gailliard, Flemish language/archaeologist, dies at 81
Aug 1st - Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Aug 2nd) Aug 2nd - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
Aug 2nd - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82
Aug 4th - Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40
Aug 12th - Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies
Aug 14th - Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies
Aug 19th - Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81
Aug 22nd - Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush
Aug 27th - Carl Fuchs, composer, dies at 83
Aug 28th - Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80
Sep 4th - Georges Sorel, French social philosopher, dies at 74
Sep 5th - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
Sep 10th - Arpad Szendy, composer, dies at 59
Sep 11th - Louis Coerne, composer, dies at 52
Sep 21st - Tom Armitage, cricketer (England lob bowler v Australia 1877), dies
Sep 28th - Andrejs Jurjans, composer, dies at 65
Sep 30th - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 64
Oct 12th - Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33
Oct 24th - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
Oct 28th - Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies
Oct 29th - George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79
Nov 6th - William Baines, composer, dies at 23
Nov 7th - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
Nov 14th - Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer, dies at 79
Nov 16th - Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
Nov 17th - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
Nov 18th - Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
Nov 21st - Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
Dec 5th - Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies
Dec 13th - Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861)
Dec 16th - Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st pres of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated