What Happened in 1922
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British Mandate of Palestine approved
The Palestine Mandate, or Mandate for Palestine, was a League of Nations Mandate drafted by the principal Allied and associated powers after the... Read more
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Mies van der Rohe Designs Glass Skyscraper
After designed the Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper, the second project, the "Glass Skyscraper" was designed to land in Berlin that the details are... Read more
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Louis Armstrong joins Creole Jazz Band in Chicago
Through all his riverboat experience Armstrong’s musicianship began to mature and expand. At twenty, he could now read music and he started to be... Read more
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Agatha Christie publishes The Secret Adversary
The Secret Adversary is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in January 1922 and in the... Read more
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Fridtjof Nansen Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel... Read more
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Frida Kahlo Attends the National Preparatory School
Frida commutes to Mexico City to begin classes at the National Preparatory School. Frida is one of only 35 girls to attend the prestigious school... Read more
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The First Insulin Injection was given to Leonard Thompson
Researcher John Macleod and chemist James Collip then began to help prepare insulin for human use. On January 11, 1922, Leonard Thompson, a... Read more
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Pope Benedict XV dies
Benedict XV fell ill with pneumonia in early January 1922. He succumbed to pneumonia on 22 January 1922. Possibly the least remembered pope of the... Read more
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Knickerbocker Theatre Roof Collapse
Accumulated snowfall from a blizzard collapses the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., on this day in 1922. The blizzard formed in the... Read more
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Nationalist Mob Sets Fire to a Police Station in Chauri Chaura Incident, Prompting Mahatma Gandhi to Call Off the Non-Cooperation Movement
On February 4, 1922, around 2,000 protesters gathered for picketing of the liquor shop at the local market in Chauri Chaura. Sensing the trouble,... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Meets Ezra Pound
At the end of 1921, Ezra Pound rented a ground-floor apartment at 70 bis Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs (southwest of the Luxembourg Gardens). Hemingway... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway is Introduced to Gertrude Stein
In the 1920s, her salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus, with walls covered by avant-garde paintings, attracted many of the great writers of the time,... Read more
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The First Edition of 'Ulysses' is Published in Paris
The court claimed the content of Ulysses to be pornographic based on the characters preoccupation with sex and their colorful language. Soon after... Read more
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Ambrogio Ratti (Pius XI) elected Pope
Pope Pius XI (Latin: Pius PP. XI; Italian: Pio XI; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was Pope from 6 February... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Meets James Joyce
Hemingway was quick to see the merit in the work of James Joyce, not always a limpid writer. In a letter to Sherwood Anderson dated March 9, 1922,... Read more
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Gandhi is Arrested by the British Government on Charges of Inciting Violence at Chauri Chaura
The Government seized the opportunity for which it was waiting. On the evening of March 10, 1922, Gandhi was arrested in his ashram. The trial was... Read more
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Toronto St. Pats win Stanley Cup
The 1922 Stanley Cup Final was contested by the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Toronto St. Pats and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association... Read more
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Charles Lindbergh Arrives at Nebraska Aircraft Corporation
Lindbergh dropped out of the engineering program in February 1922, and a month later headed to Lincoln, Nebraska, to enroll as a student at the... Read more
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"Pay Day" (film) is Released
Pay Day (1922) is an American short film made by First National Pictures. Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, and starred in the film. It is... Read more
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First Mid-Air Collision of Commercial Airliners
On April 7, 1922 the first midair collision of commercial airliners took place some 70 miles north of Paris. The aircraft involved were a... Read more
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Charlie Robertson Pitches a Perfect Game
Charles Culbertson Robertson (January 31, 1896 – August 23, 1984) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. Born in Dexter, Texas, and... Read more
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Lincoln Memorial Dedicated
IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ENSHRINED FOREVER. Read more
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Alexander Graham Bell Dies
[The Government expresses] to you our sense of the world's loss in the death of your distinguished husband. It will ever be a source of pride to... Read more
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Ronald Reagan is Baptized at His Mother's Disciples of Christ Church
Reagan's father, Jack, was a lapsed Catholic. Ronald's brother Neil was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church but Ronald was baptized into the... Read more