1922 h1 TimelineJanuary00 - Britain ratifies the formation of the Irish Free State, starting a civil war.
05 - Ernest H Shackleton, Brit South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47.
09 - KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions.
09 - Rotterdam metal strike ends.
16 - AT&T releases plans to enter broadcasting to the public.
22 - Benedictus XV, Giacomo Markies D Chiesa, pope r.1914-1922, dies at 67.List of Popes
29 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved.
February00 - Conference for Progressive Political Action is organized to support Socialist and labor candidates for Congress.
02 - Literature James Joyce's Ulysses published in Paris (1,000 copies).
04 - IndiaPolitics Violence in India comes to a head when nationalists burn to death 22 at a police station. Indian National Congress leader Mahatma Gandhi calls for a halt to his non-cooperation movement to stop the mayhem, but British authorities arrest him on mar 10 1922 for sedition of the movement and sentence on him on mar 18 1922 to six years imprisonment.
05 - Cardinal Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI re.List of Popes
05 - Reader's Digest magazine 1st published.
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11 - US intervention army leaves Honduras.
15 - Netherlands The Permanent Court of International Justice opens in The Hague.
15 - Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex.
21 - Great Britain grants Egypt independence.
27 - Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote.
28 - Radio KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions.
March03 - Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka.
05 - Annie Oakley breaks women's trap shooting record hitting 98 out of 100 targets
09 - Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape premieres on Broadway.
10 - IndiaPolitics Gandhi arrested. s.feb 04 1922
10 - state of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg S Africa.
18 - IndiaPolitics Gandhi imprisoned for civil disobedience. s.feb 04 1922
25 - Women's fashions deemed so revealing that Catholic Pope Pius XI urges a campaign against them.
28 - 1st microfilm device introduced.
April01 - A massive, disruptive U.S. coal strike gets underway in protest of wage reductions and industrial and government labor union policies. By sep 1922, the miners gain concessions and the strike ends.
02 - Chaplin releases Payday.
03 - Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party.
07 - Teapot Dome Scandal Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases the Navy's Teapot Dome oil field.
07 - Teapot Dome Scandal Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair.
16 - German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized.
16 - Annie Oakley sets a women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row.
19 - Sports 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:18:10.
May03 - Salt layer find at Winterswijk.
07 - Skirts in Paris go down below the knee again
16 - White Star Line Majestic completes 5 day maiden voyage.
19 - U.S. inventor Charles Francis Jenkins makes first lab transmission of a television picture signal.
20 - "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90.
23 - Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films.
26 - The Federal Narcotics Control Board established, with power to prohibit importation of non-medicinal narcotics.
26 - Lenin suffers a stroke.
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29 - Ecuador becomes independent.
30 - USA The 3 million dollar Lincoln Memorial dedicated in Washington, D.C.
30 - Latvia & Vatican sign accord.
June14 - Maryland, USARadio Warren Harding is the first U.S. president to broadcast by radio. The speech at the dedication of the Francis Scott Key Memorial, at Ft. McHenry, Baltimore. His voice was carried over telephone lines to the studio and broadcastfrom there. The first live remote.
16 - Aviation Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics.
22 - Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London.
24 - Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54.
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