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Events from the year 1922 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal Government
- President: Warren G. Harding (R-Ohio)
- Vice President: Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts)
- Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts)
- Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts)
- Congress: 67th
Events
January–March
- January 28 – Snowfall from the Knickerbocker storm, the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.
- February 1 – Irish American actor William Desmond Taylor is shot dead by an unknown assailant in Los Angeles.
- February 7 – Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between United States, Britain, Italy, Japan and France
- February 10 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
- February 24 – Leser v. Garnett: A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
- March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier, having been converted at Norfolk Naval Shipyard from fleet collier Jupiter. On October 17 , Lt. Virgil C. Griffin pilots the first plane — a Vought VE-7 — launched from her decks.
April–June
May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated
- April 7 – Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
- April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
- April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.
- May 5 – In the Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
- May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
- May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia.[1][2]
- May 30 – In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
- June 11 – Première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film.
- June 14 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.
July–September
- July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
- July 25 – The United States recognizes Albania as a country.[3]
- July 28 – The United States recognizes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as countries.[4][5][6]
- July 30 – Radio station WMT (AM) begins broadcasting as WJAM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
October–December
- October 3 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia becomes the first female United States Senator, when the governor of Georgia gives her a temporary appointment, pending the election of a replacement for Senator Thomas Watson, who has died suddenly. She will not take office till November 21, and will thus serve for only one day.
- November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by 7 educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Undated
- The Molly Pitcher Club is formed as a women's organization to promote the repeal of Prohibition in the U.S. by M. Louise Gross in New York.
- James O. McKinsey publishes Budgetary Control.
- The California grizzly bear becomes extinct.
Ongoing
- Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
- U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
- Prohibition (1919–1933)
- Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)
Births
- January 1
- Ernest Hollings, U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005 (died 2019)
- Roz Howard, race car driver (d. 2013)
- January 17 – Betty White, actress, comedian and writer, pioneer television entertainer
- January 22 – Howard Moss, poet, playwright and critic (d. 1987)
- January 24 – Bob Hoover, World War II air ace and test pilot (d. 2016)
- February 6
- Leon Bibb, American-Canadian singer (d. 2015)
- Jocelyn Burdick, U.S. Senator from North Dakota in 1992 (d. 2019)
- February 10 – Harold Hughes, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1969 to 1975 (d. 1996)
- February 12 – Elisabeth Carron, operatic soprano (d. 2016)
- February 17 – Tommy Edwards, singer-songwriter (d. 1969)
- February 18
- Joe Tipton, baseball player (d. 1994)
- Connie Wisniewski, baseball player (d. 1995)
- March 12 – Jack Kerouac, novelist and poet (d. 1969)
- March 23 – Marty Allen, comedian and television actor (d. 2018)
- April 3 – Doris Day, actress, singer and animal rights activist (d. 2019)
- April 16 – Pat Peppler, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
- April 19 – Billy Joe Patton, amateur golfer (d. 2011)
- May 11
- Nestor Chylak, baseball player and umpire (d. 1982)
- Thelma Eisen, baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
- June 1
- Joan Caulfield, actress (d. 1991 in the United States|1991]])
- Joan Copeland, actress
- June 9 – George Axelrod, scriptwriter (d. 2003)
- June 10
- Judy Garland, singer and movie actress (d. 1969)
- Jake LaMotta, boxer (d. 2017)
- July 15 – Leon M. Lederman, experimental physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 (d. 2018)
- July 19
- Al Haig, jazz pianist, best known as a pioneer of bebop (d. 1982)
- George McGovern, U.S. Senator from South Dakota from 1963 to 1981 and Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election (d. 2012)
- June 27 – George Walker, African American classical composer (died 2018)
- July 25 – John B. Goodenough, German-American solid-state physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019
- August 2 – Paul Laxalt, U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1974 to 1987 (died 2018)
- September 2 – Arthur Ashkin, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018
- October 30 – Marie Van Brittan Brown, inventor (d. 1999)
- December 24 – Ava Gardner, actress (d. 1990)
- December 28 – Stan Lee, comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor and president and chairman of Marvel Comics (d. 2018)[7]
Deaths
- January 17 – George B. Selden, patent lawyer and inventor (b. 1846)
- January 21 – John Kendrick Bangs, fiction writer (b. 1862)
- January 27 – Nellie Bly, journalist (b. 1864)
- March 4 – Bert Williams, entertainer (b. 1874)
- March 6 – Webb C. Ball, jeweler and watchmaker from Fredericktown, Ohio (born 1848)
- March 10 – Harry Kellar, magician (b. 1849)
- April 14 – Cap Anson, baseball player (b. 1852)
- May 12 – John Martin Poyer, U.S. Navy Commander, 12th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1861)
- June 6
- Richard A. Ballinger, politician (b. 1858)
- Lillian Russell, singer and actress (b. 1861)
- June 22 – Newton C. Blanchard, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1894 to 1897 (b. 1849)
- August 1 – Francis S. White, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1914 to 1915 (b. 1847)
- August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone
- August 5 – Tommy McCarthy, baseball player (b. 1863)
- August 23 – Albert J. Hopkins, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1903 to 1909 (b. 1846)
- September 5 – Sarah Winchester, builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b. 1837)
- September 7 – William Stewart Halsted, surgeon (b. 1852)
- September 26 – Thomas E. Watson, Populist politician (b. 1856)
- October 27 – Rita Fornia, opera singer (born 1878)
- November 6 – Morgan Bulkeley, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1905 to 1911 (b. 1837)
- November 7 – Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
- November 14 – Godfrey Chevalier, naval aviation pioneer (b. 1889)
- December 12 – John Wanamaker, businessman (b. 1838)
References
- "The Hartford herald. (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, May 17, 1922, Image 1". 1922-05-17. ISSN 1943-8710. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
- "1925PA.....33..502O Page 502". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
- "Albania - Countries - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
- "Estonia - Countries - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
- "Latvia - Countries - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
- "Latvia - Countries - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
- Rivera, Joshua. "Stan Lee, Marvel Comics Mastermind, Dies at 95". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
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