Notable Historical Events - 1922
1922 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 metal strike ends |
Jan 11 |
Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (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 |
Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st Premier |
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, 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 26 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London |
Jan 28 |
American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League" |
Jan 28 |
J E Clair turns Green Bay franchise back to NFL |
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. |
Jan 29 |
Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & 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 2 |
James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies) |
Feb 4 |
WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions |
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 11 |
"April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1 |
Feb 11 |
US intervention army leaves Honduras |
Feb 15 |
Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex |
Feb 18 |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball |
Feb 18 |
WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions |
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 |
Great Britain grants Egypt independence |
Feb 21 |
WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions |
Feb 22 |
Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin |
Feb 27 |
Commerce Sec Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference |
Feb 27 |
G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in NYC |
Feb 27 |
Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote |
Feb 28 |
Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain |
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 |
Babe Ruth signs 3 year contract with NY Yankees at $52,000 a year |
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 Mens 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 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh V" premieres in NYC |
Mar 13 |
WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions |
Mar 13 |
NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games |
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 16 |
Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt |
Mar 16 |
WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions |
Mar 18 |
1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale) |
Mar 18 |
British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience |
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 is brought to a brutal end by the police; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state |
Mar 23 |
1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, DC |
Mar 23 |
KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions |
Mar 23 |
WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions |
Mar 24 |
Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish |
Mar 28 |
1st microfilm device introduced |
Mar 28 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto St Pats (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 |
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 3 |
Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party |
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 |
Apr 7 |
Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair |
Apr 7 |
Warren G. Harding's Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting in motion what comes to be known over the next two years as the Teapot Dome scandals |
Apr 14 |
Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin |
Apr 15 |
Banting, MacLeod & Best discover insulin |
Apr 15 |
The legendary Poodle Dog Restaurant closes in San Francisco |
Apr 16 |
Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row |
Apr 16 |
German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized |
Apr 18 |
Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0 |
Apr 19 |
26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:18:10 |
Apr 21 |
The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Aggies who had died in the previous year. |
Apr 22 |
South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR |
Apr 27 |
Fritz Langs "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin |
Apr 27 |
Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR |
Apr 28 |
WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station |
Apr 29 |
1st official Intl Weightlifting Federation Champ (Tallinn, Estonia) |
Apr 30 |
Chicago White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0 |
May 1 |
Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game |
May 2 |
WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Fort Worth, Texas |
May 3 |
Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium |
May 3 |
Salt layer find at Winterswijk |
May 4 |
KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions |
May 5 |
Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx) |
May 7 |
Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2 |
May 7 |
NY Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0 |
May 9 |
The International Astronomical Union formally adopt Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system, which with only minor changes, is still used today |
May 10 |
Dr Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar |
May 10 |
WHB-AM in Kansas City MO begins radio transmissions |
May 10 |
The United States annexes the Kingman Reef in n the North Pacific Ocean |
May 13 |
48th Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 2:04.6 |
May 13 |
48th Preakness: L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 1:51.6 |
May 16 |
White Star Liner Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage |
May 18 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs) |
May 20 |
"Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine" killing 90 |
May 20 |
Babe Ruth & Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the NY lineup & go hitless |
May 21 |
"On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize |
May 21 |
Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000 |
May 21 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) |
May 21 |
Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million |
May 23 |
"Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances |
May 23 |
Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat |
May 23 |
Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films |
May 24 |
Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6°C) |
May 24 |
Russian-Italian trade agreement signed |
May 25 |
Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump |
May 26 |
Lenin suffers a stroke |
May 29 |
Ecuador becomes independent |
May 29 |
US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport & not a business & thus not subject to antitrust laws |
May 30 |
Latvia & Vatican sign accord |
May 30 |
Completed Lincoln Memorial dedicated by US Chief Justice William H. Taft in front of 50,000 |
May 30 |
Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Jimmy Murphy wins in 5:17:30.845 (152.057 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded. |
Jun 2 |
Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances |
Jun 9 |
First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University. |
Jun 10 |
54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8 |
Jun 12 |
German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich |
Jun 12 |
St Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times |
Jun 12 |
St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8 |
Jun 13 |
Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops |
Jun 14 |
5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa |
Jun 14 |
Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament |
Jun 14 |
Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore |
Jun 16 |
Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics |
Jun 19 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2) |
Jun 22 |
Herrin massacre, 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois. |
Jun 23 |
57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St George |
Jun 24 |
AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears |
Jun 27 |
Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon) |
Jun 28 |
The Irish Civil War starts when Irish Free State forces attack anti-treaty republicans in Dublin. |
Jun 29 |
France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes." |
Jul 5 |
1st general election in Netherlands |
Jul 5 |
Uprising of social righteousness in Rio de Janeiro |
Jul 5 |
Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win |
Jul 6 |
Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy |
Jul 8 |
35th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (6-2 6-0) |
Jul 9 |
Johnny Weissmuller swims 1st 100 m free style under 1 minute |
Jul 10 |
42nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Gerald Patterson beats R Lycett (6-3 6-4 6-2) |
Jul 11 |
The Hollywood Bowl opens. |
Jul 15 |
1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo |
Jul 15 |
26th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill |
Jul 17 |
Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto |
Jul 17 |
Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year |
Jul 20 |
Togo made a mandate of League of Nations |
Jul 22 |
Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis teams are on top |
Jul 25 |
AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN) |
Jul 27 |
International Geographical Union forms in Brussels |
Jul 31 |
18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn) |
Jul 31 |
General strike in Italy against fascist violence |
Aug 1 |
Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard |
Aug 2 |
China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die |
Aug 4 |
Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team |
Aug 8 |
Italian general strike broken by fascist terror |
Aug 8 |
Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies) |
Aug 12 |
Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine |
Aug 14 |
1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta) |
Aug 16 |
AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC) |
Aug 19 |
36th US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (6-3 6-1) |
Aug 20 |
1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris |
Aug 21 |
Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise |
Aug 24 |
1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams) |
Aug 25 |
Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game |
Aug 26 |
Japanese cruiser Niitaka driven onto rocks in storm at Kamchatka, 284 killed |
Aug 27 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6) |
Aug 28 |
1st Walker Cup: US beats England 8-4 |
Aug 28 |
Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical premieres in NYC |
Aug 28 |
WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio coml (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins) |
Aug 30 |
Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922 |
Sep 1 |
NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards" |
Sep 2 |
President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem |
Sep 4 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3) |
Sep 5 |
17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1) |
Sep 5 |
Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years) |
Sep 6 |
42nd US Men's Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (4-6 3-6 6-2 6-3 6-4) |
Sep 7 |
In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation. |
Sep 9 |
St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0 |
Sep 9 |
Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens |
Sep 9 |
William T Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins |
Sep 10 |
Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs |
Sep 11 |
British mandate of Palestine begins |
Sep 11 |
Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader |
Sep 11 |
The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia. |
Sep 11 |
One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded. |
Sep 12 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4) |
Sep 13 |
136.4°F (58°C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record) |
Sep 15 |
Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897 |
Sep 16 |
42nd US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (4-6 3-6 6-2 6-3 6-4) |
Sep 16 |
Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia |
Sep 17 |
Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ |
Sep 17 |
Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station) |
Sep 18 |
2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands |
Sep 18 |
Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush |
Sep 18 |
Hungary admitted to League of Nations |
Sep 19 |
Queen Wilhelmina assumes Dutch throne with 119 word speech |
Sep 20 |
Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC |
Sep 20 |
Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games |
Sep 20 |
Franco Ventriglia, Fairfield, Connecticut, opera singer, (d. 2012) |
Sep 21 |
Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
Sep 23 |
Berthold Brecht's "Drum in the Night" premieres in Germany |
Sep 23 |
Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament. |
Sep 24 |
Nuremberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky |
Sep 24 |
Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42 |
Sep 25 |
Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant |
Sep 27 |
King Constantine I of Greece abdicates |
Sep 28 |
Benito Mussolini marches on Rome |
Sep 29 |
Benito Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program |
Sep 30 |
Government of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece |
Sep 30 |
Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1 |
Oct 1 |
Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0 |
Oct 1 |
Rogers Hornsby's 3-for-5 ups avg to .401 |
Oct 3 |
1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC |
Oct 3 |
Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate |
Oct 4 |
For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ & WGY) |
Oct 4 |
Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence |
Oct 5 |
Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game |
Oct 6 |
Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia |
Oct 6 |
The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul |
Oct 7 |
First radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series |
Oct 7 |
Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain |
Oct 7 |
Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria |
Oct 8 |
NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series |
Oct 11 |
First woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson) |
Oct 11 |
Turkey & Greece sign cease fire |
Oct 14 |
1st Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue NYC |
Oct 14 |
1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC |
Oct 17 |
Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London |
Oct 18 |
British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded (later called British Broadcasting Corporation) |
Oct 20 |
Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place |
Oct 22 |
Lucerne Street in Bronx named |
Oct 22 |
Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera |
Oct 23 |
Channing Pollock's "Fool" premieres in NYC |
Oct 23 |
Conservative Andrew Bonar Law forms government in United Kingdom |
Oct 24 |
German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925 |
Oct 24 |
Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State |
Oct 26 |
Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists & Benito Mussolini |
Oct 27 |
1st commemoration of Navy Day |
Oct 27 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws |
Oct 28 |
First US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game |
Oct 28 |
Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government |
Oct 30 |
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) |
Oct 30 |
Benito Mussolini forms government in Italy |
Oct 31 |
Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy |
Oct 31 |
Karel & Josef Capék's "World We Live In" premieres in NYC |
Nov 1 |
Ottoman Empire abolished |
Nov 1 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam |
Nov 2 |
Allies deliberate over German mark |
Nov 3 |
Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life |
Nov 4 |
Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt |
Nov 5 |
Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent |
Nov 9 |
Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality) |
Nov 11 |
Largest US flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90') |
Nov 12 |
The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
Nov 13 |
Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY |
Nov 13 |
George Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly" premieres in NYC |
Nov 13 |
Marc Connelly/George Kaufman's "'49ers" premieres in NYC |
Nov 14 |
BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House |
Nov 14 |
German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth's term ends |
Nov 15 |
British Conservative Party wins election; /Labour Party comes second |
Nov 16 |
Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite |
Nov 16 |
Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help |
Nov 17 |
The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed VI is expelled to Malta on British warship |
Nov 18 |
Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief |
Nov 19 |
Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent |
Nov 20 |
Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale" premieres in NYC |
Nov 21 |
Rebecca L Felton (Ga) sworn in as first female US Senator |
Nov 22 |
British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader |
Nov 22 |
Library Ave in Bronx named |
Nov 22 |
Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government |
Nov 24 |
Italian parliament gives Benito Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year" |
Nov 25 |
Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince regent |
Nov 26 |
English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt |
Nov 28 |
6 ex-minsters executed in Greece |
Nov 28 |
Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called |
Nov 30 |
1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho |
Nov 30 |
Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich |
Dec 1 |
1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF |
Dec 1 |
Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski resigns |
Dec 2 |
10th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1 |
Dec 3 |
1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in NYC |
Dec 4 |
Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service |
Dec 6 |
1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation |
Dec 6 |
1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY |
Dec 9 |
Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president |
Dec 10 |
Nobel prizes awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein |
Dec 10 |
Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards |
Dec 13 |
Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps |
Dec 15 |
IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague |
Dec 16 |
Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs formally organizes |
Dec 16 |
NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket |
Dec 17 |
Last British troops leave Irish Free State |
Dec 19 |
Theresa Vaughn, 24, confessed in court in Sheffield, England, to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countris |
Dec 20 |
14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR) |
Dec 20 |
Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president |
Dec 22 |
Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent |
Dec 23 |
BBC Radio began daily newscasts |
Dec 23 |
Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano |
Dec 24 |
BBC broadcasts 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas" |
Dec 24 |
London Coloseum opens |
Dec 25 |
-Dec 26] Lenin dictates his "Political testament" |
Dec 29 |
Dutch Constitution proclaimed |
Dec 29 |
Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage |
Dec 30 |
Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR |
Dec 30 |
Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre |
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