1922 in the United States

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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 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie ice cream bar.
  • 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 – The Ring boxing magazine is first published.
  • February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved.
  • February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
  • 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 1 - The Illinois General Assembly creates the Illinois State Police.
  • 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.[citation needed]
  • 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 open-air music venue 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]
  • July 30 – Radio station WMT (AM) begins broadcasting as WJAM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
  • August – The California grizzly bear is hunted to extinction.

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.
  • Thompson Webb founds the Webb School of California for boys in Claremont.
  • Earliest known example of gospel song "This Train (is Bound for Glory)", a recording by Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette, under the title "Dis Train".[6]

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 (d. 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 20 – Carl Reiner, comedian, actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2020)
  • 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)
  • May 26 – Troy Smith, businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In (d. 2009)
  • June 1
    • Joan Caulfield, actress (d. 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)
  • June 23 – Morris R. Jeppson, physicist (d. 2010)
  • June 24 – Jack Carter, comedian (d. 2015)
  • June 25 – Alex Garbowski, baseball player (d. 2008)
  • June 27 – George Walker, African American classical composer (d. 2018)
  • June 29 – John William Vessey Jr., American military officer (d. 2016)
  • 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)
  • 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 (d. 2018)
  • September 2 – Arthur Ashkin, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018
  • October 7 – Martha Stewart, actress and singer (d. 2021)[7]
  • October 10 – Wilhelmina Holladay, art collector and patron (d. 2021)[8]
  • October 23 – Coleen Gray, actress[9]
  • 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)[10]

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 14 – Rebecca Cole, physician and social reformer (b. 1846)[11]
  • 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 3 – Alva Adams, 3-time Governor of Colorado (born 1850)
  • 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)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Hartford herald. (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, May 17, 1922, Image 1". 1922-05-17. ISSN 1943-8710. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  2. ^ "1925PA.....33..502O Page 502". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  3. ^ "Albania - Countries - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  4. ^ "Estonia - Countries - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  5. ^ "Latvia - Countries - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  6. ^ Waltz, Robert B. "This Train". Fresno State Ballad Index. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  7. ^ Martha Stewart, Actress in 'Daisy Kenyon' and 'In a Lonely Place,' Dies at 98
  8. ^ Women’s Art Museum Founder Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, 1922-2021
  9. ^ "Coleen Gray obituary". The Guardian. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  10. ^ Rivera, Joshua. "Stan Lee, Marvel Comics Mastermind, Dies at 95". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  11. ^ Lyman, Darryl (2005). Great African-American Women. New York: J David. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-82460-459-2.

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