Today in History for October 1922

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

Historical Events

Events 1 - 35 of 35

1st - Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0
1st - Rogers Hornsby's 3-for-5 ups avg to .401
3rd - 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
3rd - Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate
4th - For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ & WGY)
4th - Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence
5th - Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game
6th - Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia
6th - The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul
7th - 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
7th - Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
7th - Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria
8th - NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
11th - 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
11th - Turkey & Greece sign cease fire
14th - 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue NYC
14th - 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
17th - Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
18th - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms
20th - Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place
22nd - Lucerne Street in Bronx named
22nd - Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
23rd - Channing Pollock's "Fool," premieres in NYC
23rd - Conservative A Bonar forms new government in England
24th - German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925
24th - Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini 26th - Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists & Benito Mussolini
27th - 1st commemoration of Navy Day
27th - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws
28th - 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
28th - Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
30th - Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the NY Giants pay $65,000 & 3 players for Jack Bentley (hits .349 & is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922)
30th - Benito Mussolini forms government in Italy
31st - Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy
31st - Karel & Josef Capék's "World We Live In," premieres in NYC

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 56 of 56

1st - Hector Campos-Parsi, composer
2nd - Otmar Macha, composer
2nd - Thomas T Nkobi, S Afr ANC-leader (Alexandra-bus boycott 1957)
2nd - Wolfhart U Pannenberg, German theologist (Gingham Girl)
3rd - Marcel van Thienen, composer
3rd - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
4th - Malcolm Baldrige, Conn, US Secretary of Commerce (1981-87)
4th - Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman
5th - José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
5th - Bil Keane, American cartoonist
5th - Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
6th - Joe Frazier, American baseball player
7th - Martha Stewart, Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face)
7th - Reina Prinsen Geerligs, [Leentje Vandendriesch], Dutch antifascist
7th - Grady Hatton, American baseball player
8th - Douglas Gray, archivist
8th - Svend Westergaard, composer
9th - Fyvush Finkel, actor (Middle Ages, Picket Fences)
9th - Raymond Wilding-White, composer
10th - Boeli [Willem C] van Leeuwen, Antillian writer (Vreemdeling Op Aarde)
10th - Harry Cave, cricketer (NZ bowler & Test captain in the 1950's)
10th - Merv Pregulman, Lansing, Michigan, NFL Line backer (Green Bay Packers), (d. 2012)
13th - Alan Scott, Haddonfield NJ, TV host/songwriter (Spin the Picture)
13th - Gilberto Mendes, composer
15th - Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese writer
16th - Max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)
16th - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed, Dark Avenger)
17th - Louis Benjamin, showman
17th - Pierre Juneau, Montreal, Canada, film and broadcast executive, (d. 2012)
17th - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian composer (d. 2001)
18th - Camillo Togni, composer
18th - Little Orphan Annie, comic strip character
18th - Richard Stankiewicz, US sculptor (1974 Akston Award, 1966 Brandeis)
19th - Jack Anderson, Long Beach, California, journalist (Wash Post)
20th - John Anderson, Clayton Ill, actor (Virgil-Legend of Wyatt Earp)
21st - Liliane de Bettencourt, heir to L'Oreal
22nd - John H Chafee, (Sen-R-Rhode Island, 1976- )
22nd - John Weidner, Brussels, Belgium, war hero
22nd - Ton Lensink, Dutch actor (Rituelen)
22nd - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001)
23rd - Coleen Gray, Staplehurst Nebraska, actress (Apache Drums)
23rd - Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot
27th - Carlos Andres Perez, president of Venezuela (1974-79/89-94)
27th - George Young, soccer star
27th - Ralph Kiner, HR hitter (Pittsburgh Pirates)/sportscaster (NY Mets)
28th - Gershon Kingsley, German composer
28th - Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
28th - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (d. 2003)
29th - Francois H L Henrichs, sportscaster/actor (Spider)
29th - Neal Hefti, Hastings Neb, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Show)
29th - Neil Blaney, politician
30th - Jane White, American actress and singer
31st - Barbara Bel Geddes, NYC, actress (Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught)
31st - Norodom Sihanouk, king/pres/prem Cambodia (My War with the CIA), (d. 2012)
31st - Anatoli Papanov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
31st - Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist (d. 2004)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 4 of 4

12th - Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33
24th - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
28th - Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies
29th - George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79

<< Year 1921

Year 1923 >>