What Happened in 1922 — Events, Births & Deaths

Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.

Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin.

The first successful treatment with insulin is given to 14-year-old diabetic Leonard Thompson.

Knickerbocker Storm: Washington, D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes a disaster when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses, killing over 100 people.

Ulysses by James Joyce is published.

The uprising called the "pork mutiny" starts in the region between Kuolajärvi and Savukoski in Finland.

The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

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 in Leser v. Garnett.

The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.

After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.

In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.

The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

The McMahon killings take place in Belfast. Six Catholic civilians are shot dead, two others wounded and a female family member assaulted. Police were suspected as being responsible, but no one was prosecuted.

The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.

Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.

U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.

The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.

The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.

The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.

The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.

Seamus Woods and Roger McCorley lead an Irish Republican Army attack on the headquarters of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Belfast.

The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established.

The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.

Åland's Regional Assembly convenes for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland.

General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins a large majority.

Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.

British Army Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is killed by the Irish Republican Army helping to spark the Irish Civil War.

The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.

The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.

France grants "one square kilometer" at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".

In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.

Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.

The Hollywood Bowl opens.

The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.

The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine is formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.

A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.

Enver Pasha dies in a skirmish between the Bolshevik Red Army and Basmachi troops, to whom he had defected earlier.

Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.

Greco-Turkish War (1919–22): Turkish army launched what has come to be known to the Turks as the Great Offensive (Büyük Taarruz). The major Greek defense positions were overrun.

Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.

Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (Turkish War of Independence).

The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.

The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.

King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, George II.

The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.

British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.

A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.

Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.

Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.

In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.

The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.

Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.

The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)

Ireland is partitioned, with Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State coming into existence, one year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.

Two days after coming into existence, the Irish Free State executes four leaders of the Irish Republican Army: Dick Barrett, Joe McKelvey, Liam Mellows and Rory O'Connor.

Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.

Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.