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The following events occurred in July 1922:
July 1, 1922 (Saturday)
- The Great Railroad Strike began in the United States.
- The Country Club Plaza, the world's first shopping centre, opened in Kansas City, Missouri.[1]
July 2, 1922 (Sunday)
- The Winslow Junction Train Derailment in New Jersey killed 7 people and injured 89.[2]
- Born: Pierre Cardin, fashion designer, in San Biagio di Callalta, Italy
July 3, 1922 (Monday)
- Three days of parliamentary elections concluded in Finland. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in Parliament.
- German journalist and editor Maximilian Harden was stabbed and nearly killed by right-wing radicals.[3][4]
- Born: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-born Dutch artist, in Liège (d. 2010)
July 4, 1922 (Tuesday)
- Benny Leonard knocked out Rocky Kansas in the eighth round in Michigan City, Indiana to retain boxing's World Lightweight Title.[5]
- At Camp Harding, the U.S. Marines staged a re-enactment of Pickett's Charge.
- A German mail plane flown by Lothar von Richthofen carrying the actress Fern Andra and director Georg Bluen crashed due to engine failure. Richthofen died but Andra and Bluen survived.
- Died: Lothar von Richthofen, 27, German fighter ace (plane crash)
July 5, 1922 (Wednesday)
- General elections were held in the Netherlands. The General League of Roman Catholic Caucuses remained the largest party.
- The Tenente revolts began in Brazil.
- The Battle of Dublin ended with a total of 65 killed.[6]
July 6, 1922 (Thursday)
- 11 more people in Soviet Russia were condemned to death for interfering with the state confiscation of church property.[7]
- The Romanian football club FC Gloria Progresul Bistrița was founded.
- The Bulgarian football club PFC Svetkavitsa was founded.
- Born: William Schallert, actor, in Los Angeles
July 7, 1922 (Friday)
- The Vatican placed Anatole France on the list of books that Catholics were forbidden to read.[8]
- Died: Ioannis Svoronos, 59, Greek archaeologist and numismatist
July 8, 1922 (Saturday)
- Suzanne Lenglen of France defeated Molla Mallory to win the Ladies' Singles Final at Wimbledon for the fourth straight year.[9]
- Elections to the Upper House of the Althing were held in Iceland. The Home Rule Party edged the Progressive Party by less than 1 percent.
July 9, 1922 (Sunday)
- Johnny Weissmuller became the first man to swim 100 metres in less than a minute.[1]
July 10, 1922 (Monday)
- Gerald Patterson of Australia defeated Randolph Lycett of the United Kingdom in the Gentlemen's Singles Final at Wimbledon.[10]
- Joe Lynch regained boxing's World Bantamweight Title with a 14th-round knockout of Johnny Buff in New York.[11]
- The Law Society of Northern Ireland was established.
July 11, 1922 (Tuesday)
- The Hollywood Bowl opened in Hollywood, California with a performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.[6]
- The U.S. state of Montana got its first licensed radio station, KFBB out of Great Falls.[12]
- Died: Hans Irvine, 65, Australian vigneron, winemaker and politician
July 12, 1922 (Wednesday)
- Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King proposed to modernize and make permanent the century-old Rush-Bagot Treaty with the United States.[13]
- Germany formally asked the Allied Reparations Commission to extend the moratorium on German reparations payments to all of 1923 and 1924.[14]
- Born: Heinz Sachsenberg, ace fighter pilot, in Dessau, Germany (d. 1951)
- Died: George Washington Steele, 82, American lawyer, soldier and politician
July 13, 1922 (Thursday)
- The directors of the Bank of England reduced the rate to 3%, the pre-war figure.[15]
- Born: Anker Jørgensen, Prime Minister of Denmark, in Copenhagen (d. 2016); Ken Mosdell, ice hockey player, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (d. 2006)
July 14, 1922 (Friday)
- French President Alexandre Millerand survived an assassination attempt when someone fired three revolver shots at him as he rode in an open carriage down the Champs-Élysées during Bastille Day celebrations.[16]
- The Hague economic conference ended without an agreement.[17]
July 15, 1922 (Saturday)
- Italian Fascists led by Roberto Farinacci occupied Cremona and forced the local government to resign.[18]
- The Japanese Communist Party was founded.
- Gene Sarazen won the U.S. Open golf tournament.
- Born: Leon M. Lederman, experimental physicist and Nobel laureate, in New York City
July 16, 1922 (Sunday)
- Felice Nazzaro won the French Grand Prix.
July 17, 1922 (Monday)
- The murderers of Walther Rathenau were cornered by police at Saaleck Castle near Kösen. Retired naval officer Erwin Kern was shot while fleeing and reserve lieutenant Herman Fischer committed suicide.[19]
- In Germany, the National Bank and the Darmstadt Bank of Trade and Industry merged to create the Danatbank.[20]
- The final signings of Treaty 11 were made at Fort Liard in Canada's Northwest Territories.
July 18, 1922 (Tuesday)
- Edwina Ashley and Lord Louis Mountbatten were married at St Margaret's, Westminster, London in the society wedding of the year.[21]
- The U.S. state of Kentucky's first radio station, WHAS out of Louisville, went on the air.[22]
- Born: Thomas Kuhn, physicist, historian and philosopher of science, in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1996)
July 19, 1922 (Wednesday)
- The National Athletic and Cycling Association was formed in Ireland.
- Born: George McGovern, politician, in Avon, South Dakota (d. 2012); Jaafar of Negeri Sembilan, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, in Klang, British Malaya (d. 2008)
July 20, 1922 (Thursday)
- The British and French mandates over the former German possessions of Kamerun and Togoland were ratified by the League of Nations. French and British Cameroons and French and British Togoland were made League of Nations Class B mandates.[23]
- The city of Limerick fell to the National Army.[24]
- Died: Andrey Markov, 66, Russian mathematician
July 21, 1922 (Friday)
- Film actress ZaSu Pitts filed for bankruptcy.[25]
- A limited commercial license was issued for operating radio station WIAE, in Vinton, Iowa, to station manager Marie Zimmerman, making WIAE the first radio station owned and operated by a woman.[26]
- Born: Mollie Sugden, comedy actress, in Keighley, England (d. 2009)
- Died: Djemal Pasha, 50, Ottoman military leader (assassinated)
July 22, 1922 (Saturday)
- Germany formally announced the acceptance of a plan for Allied control of German finances in which they would personally supervise almost all the country's financial departments.[27]
- The U.S. state of Delaware got its first licensed radio station, WHAV in Wilmington.[28]
- Born: Alan Stephenson Boyd, 1st United States Secretary of Transportation, in Jacksonville, Florida
- Died: Jōkichi Takamine, 67, Japanese chemist
July 23, 1922 (Sunday)
- Firmin Lambot of Belgium won the Tour de France.
- The Boston Red Sox made a controversial trade with the New York Yankees. Joe Dugan and Elmer Smith went to the Yankees in exchange for $50,000 and an assortment of mediocre players, which caused complaints around the league that Red Sox owner Harry Frazee was habitually selling off his top talent to the Yankees in order to line his own pockets.[29][30][31]
July 24, 1922 (Monday)
- The League of Nations approved the establishment of a French mandate over the Syrian states and a mandate over Palestine for Great Britain.[32]
July 25, 1922 (Tuesday)
- The Battle of Kilmallock began in County Limerick, Ireland.
July 26, 1922 (Wednesday)
- The British government rejected a proposal from the United States requesting the right to search British vessels outside the three-mile limit suspected of smuggling liquor into America.[33]
- American League President Ban Johnson suggested that the baseball trading deadline be moved up to July 1 from August 1 to cut down on lopsided deals like the one recently made between the Red Sox and Yankees.[34]
- Born: Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player, in Huntersville, North Carolina (d. 2002)
July 27, 1922 (Thursday)
- Oscar Traynor and a number of other IRA officers were arrested by the government.[24]
- Adolf Hitler was released from Munich Stadelheim Prison after serving a month of his 100-day sentence.[35]
- Adyghe Autonomous Oblast was created within the Russian SFSR.
- Born: Norman Lear, television writer and producer, in New Haven, Connecticut
July 28, 1922 (Friday)
- Sir Adam Beck announced plans for a $100 million expansion of Canada's hydroelectric power plants at Niagara Falls.[36]
July 29, 1922 (Saturday)
- The German mark hit a new low of 650 to 1 American dollar.[37]
- The short animated film Little Red Riding Hood, produced and directed by Walt Disney, was released.
July 30, 1922 (Sunday)
- The Irish National Army took Tipperary.[24]
- Marilyn Miller and Jack Pickford were married in Los Angeles.[38]
July 31, 1922 (Monday)
- Socialist-led unions in Italy held a 24-hour general strike in an effort to pressure Luigi Facta's government to do more to stop Fascist violence. Few workers participated, however, leaving the Socialists discredited and the Fascists even more emboldened.[39]
- The Rex Ingram-directed adventure film The Prisoner of Zenda premiered at the Astor Theatre in New York City.[40]
- The musical stage comedy Little Nellie Kelly premiered at the Tremont Theatre in Boston.[41]
- Born: Hank Bauer, baseball player and manager, in East St. Louis, Illinois (d. 2007); Bill Kaysing, writer, in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2005)
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- "Suzanne Again Tennis Queen; Swamps Molla". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 9, 1922. p. 1.
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