April 1922

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April 1, 1922: Karl the First, the last Emperor of Austria-Hungary, dies in exile
April 3, 1922: Soviet Communist Party leader Vladimir Lenin names Joseph Stalin as his successor
April 14, 1922: U.S. President Harding's Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, accused of corruption

The following events occurred in April 1922:

April 1, 1922 (Saturday)[]

  • Over 500,000 UMW miners across 26 states went on strike in the United States.[1][2]
  • The Arnon Street killings took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • The University of Cambridge rowing team won the 74th Boat Race.
  • The adventure film Monte Cristo, starring John Gilbert and Estelle Taylor, was released.
  • Born:
    • William Manchester, author, biographer and historian, in Attleboro, Massachusetts (d. 2004)
    • Saad el-Shazly, Egyptian military commander, in Basyoun (d. 2011)
  • Died: Charles I of Austria, 34, the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, died of respiratory failure at his home in Portugal, where he had lived in exile after the end of World War One.

April 2, 1922 (Sunday)[]

  • Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear was elected as the new President of Argentina, receiving 50.51% of the popular vote, more the other five candidates combined.
  • The Charlie Chaplin comedy short film Pay Day was released.
Dr. Rorschach
  • Died: Hermann Rorschach, 37, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst best known for the "Rorschach tests" for intepreting perception of inkblots, died from peritonitis from a ruptured appendix

April 3, 1922 (Monday)[]

April 4, 1922 (Tuesday)[]

  • A bomb attack on a gentlemen's club in Budapest killed six people. All the victims were Jewish, and it was suspected that the attack had a political motivation.[5]
  • The bodies of the Hinterkaifeck murders were discovered.
  • Born: Elmer Bernstein, American film score composer and conductor, in New York City (d. 2004)
  • Died: Peter Waite, 87, Scottish-born Australian pastoralist, businessman and philanthropist

April 5, 1922 (Wednesday)[]

  • The American Birth Control League was inaugurated in New York.
  • KOB in Las Cruces, New Mexico went on the air, the first in that state.[6][7]
  • Born:
    • Tom Finney, English footballer; in Preston, Lancashire(d. 2014)
    • Gale Storm (stage name for Josephine Cottle), American television actress and singer; in Bloomington, Texas (d. 2009)

April 6, 1922 (Thursday)[]

April 7, 1922 (Friday)[]

  • The first midair collision between an airliner and another airplane occurred, over Picardie in France. A Grands Express Aériens Farman F.60, designated as "Goliath" and carrying two crew and three passengers, and a mail-carrying Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18, ran into each other in a fog at an altitude of 500 feet (150 m). All seven people aboard the two planes were killed.[9][10]
  • Born: Mongo Santamaría, Cuban jazz percussionist; in Havana (d. 2003)
  • Died: A. V. Dicey, 87, British jurist and constitutional theorist

April 8, 1922 (Saturday)[]

  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrived in the United States to conduct a lecture tour on spiritualism.[11]
  • During an exhibition game, the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team first wore their now-iconic uniforms, with two cardinals perched on a baseball bat emblazoned across the front of the jersey.[12]
  • Died: Erich von Falkenhayn, 60, German general

April 9, 1922 (Sunday)[]

  • Charles Lindbergh took his first airplane flight, as a passenger in a Standard J biplane on his first flying lesson. Flight instructor Otto Timm of the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation's flying school piloted the airplane from an airfield in Lincoln, Nebraska.[13]
  • Died:
    • Hans Fruhstorfer, 56, German explorer and entomologist;
    • Patrick Manson, 77, Scottish physician

April 10, 1922 (Monday)[]

  • The Genoa Conference began. Representatives of 34 countries convened to discuss global economic problems in the aftermath of the war.[14] The conference also marked the first appearance of Soviet Russia as a player on the international stage.[15] It was widely speculated that Vladimir Lenin might personally attend, but he chose not to for security reasons.[16][17]
  • The First Zhili–Fengtian War began in China.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court decided Balzac v. Porto Rico.
  • The first licensed radio station in the U.S. state of North Carolina, WBT out of Charlotte, went on the air.[7][18]

April 11, 1922 (Tuesday)[]

  • The New York Philharmonic made its first recording, an abridged performance of Beethoven's 8-minute long Coriolan Overture, for a 5-minute, 12-inch 78 rpm phonograph record disc for the Victor Talking Machine Company company (later acquired by the RCA company and called RCA Victor.[14]

April 12, 1922 (Wednesday)[]

A photo of the verdict
  • Fatty Arbuckle was acquitted of all criminal charges in his third trial for the death of Virginia Rappe. The jury deliberated for only one minute.[14]
  • Gabby Hartnett made his major league debut for the Chicago Cubs, going 0-for-2 with two sacrifices against the Cincinnati Reds.[19]

April 13, 1922 (Thursday)[]

Cantor

April 14, 1922 (Friday)[]

  • The Teapot Dome scandal broke when The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had secretly leased the government-owned Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming to private business interests.[21]
  • Members of the IRA occupied the Four Courts and other important buildings in Dublin.[14]
  • Born: Ali Akbar Khan, Hindustani classical musician, in Comilla, East Bengal, British India (d. 2009)
  • Died: Cap Anson, 69, American baseball player

April 15, 1922 (Saturday)[]

  • The U.S. Senate passed Resolution 277, which asked Interior Secretary Fall and Navy Secretary Edwin Denby to confirm or deny reports that leases on the government-owned oil reserves had been granted without notice.[21]
  • Died: John D'Auban, 79, English dancer, choreographer and actor

April 16, 1922 (Sunday)[]

  • The Treaty of Rapallo was signed. Germany and Russia agreed to renounce all territorial and financial claims against each other and normalize diplomatic relations.[14]
  • Michael Collins survived an assassination attempt when gunmen fired at him as he was passing through Dublin's Rutland Square.[22]
  • Born:
    • Kingsley Amis, English novelist, in Clapham (d. 1995)
    • Leo Tindemans, Prime Minister of Belgium, in Zwijndrecht (d. 2014)

April 17, 1922 (Monday)[]

  • Tornadoes swept through the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, killing about 50 people.[23]
  • The U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Moreland.

April 18, 1922 (Tuesday)[]

  • In Yugoslavia, hundreds of people were killed in the explosion of a large stockpile of munitions near a railway station in Monastir.[24]
  • The Republic of Central Lithuania was formally incorporated under the sovereignty of Poland despite Lithuania's objections.[25]
  • Economist John Maynard Keynes wrote an editorial urging Britain to give Russia a loan of £150 million to be spent on British goods that either promoted agricultural production or improved communications. Doing so, Keynes wrote, would ameliorate Russia's famine and cut food prices worldwide by speeding up the time it would take to make Russia an exporter of food again.[26]
  • Actor William Desmond was badly injured in a fall during the shooting of a scene for the film serial Perils of the Yukon. He and others were standing on a fifty-foot cliff when a ledge of melting ice and snow gave way, plunging Williams into the river below.[27] Desmond, 44, recovered and would appear in films until shortly before his death in 1949.
  • FC Spartak Moscow was founded in Russia, at the time part of Soviet Union.[citation needed]

April 19, 1922 (Wednesday)[]

  • Three people were killed during rioting in Belfast that had broken out after the fatal shooting of a young man.[28]
  • Clarence DeMar won the Boston Marathon.[29]
  • Born: Erich Hartmann, German ace fighter pilot, in Weissach (d. 1993)

April 20, 1922 (Thursday)[]

  • The British freighter Zero collided with the USS Aeolus off the coast of Uruguay and sank, but all 18 of its crew were rescued.[30]
  • Died: Christopher Augustine Buckley, 76, blind American saloonkeeper and political boss of the Democratic Party administration in San Francisco during the late 19th century.

April 21, 1922 (Friday)[]

  • France threatened to quit the Genoa Conference because it viewed the Treaty of Rapallo as a provocation and disapproved of David Lloyd George's inclination towards forgiving some of Russia's debt, since much of it was owed to France.[31]
  • Six more people were killed in disturbances in Belfast.[32]
  • Born: Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist, in Shettleston, Glasgow (d. 1987)

April 22, 1922 (Saturday)[]

  • A Ku Klux Klan raid occurred in Inglewood, California, when 37 Klansmen attacked the home of a Spanish-American family suspected of bootlegging. The violent incident led to a much-publicized trial, where the defendants would be acquitted of all charges.[33]
  • Born: Charles Mingus, jazz musician, in Nogales, Arizona (d. 1979)

April 23, 1922 (Sunday)[]

  • Ten powers at the Genoa Conference placated France by sending Germany a note stating that they reserved the right to nullify any clauses in the Treaty of Rapallo that they recognized as conflicting with the Treaty of Versailles.[34]
  • Born: Marjorie Cameron, artist, poet, actress and occultist, in Belle Plaine, Iowa (d. 1995)

April 24, 1922 (Monday)[]

  • The first "link" in the "Imperial Wireless Chain", a network of British Empire radio transmission stations, began service, connecting Leafield, England to Cairo, Egypt was opened.[35] The worldwide network would be completed by 1928.
  • A twenty-four-hour general strike called by the Labour Party was held in Ireland to express opposition to the prospect of civil war.[36]
  • French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré warned in a speech that France would, if necessary, act alone to enforce the Treaty of Versailles if the Germans defaulted in their reparations payments.[37]
  • Vladimir Lenin had the bullet removed from his shoulder that was lodged there in 1918 when Fanny Kaplan attempted to assassinate him. His health was officially pronounced as satisfactory.[38]
  • Born: Susanna Agnelli, Italian politician, businesswoman and writer, in Turin, Italy (d. 2009); Blue Demon, Mexican professional wrestler, in Rinconada (d. 2000)

April 25, 1922 (Tuesday)[]

  • Russia responded to the Genoa Conference note of two days earlier, by sending a note of its own to Poland, saying that "in no case can it permit treaties concluded by Russia to depend for their legality on the action of powers not signatory."[39]

April 26, 1922 (Wednesday)[]

  • The Dunmanway killings began in County Cork, Ireland, with 13 Protestant men and boys being murdered over a period of three days. The first victims were magistrate Thomas Hornibrook, his son Samuel Hornibrook, and his nephew Herbert Woods. Ten more people were killed over the next two days.
  • Born: Sam Dente, baseball player, in Harrison, New Jersey (d. 2002)

April 27, 1922 (Thursday)[]

Grant Memorial
Kingdom of Egypt flag
The current Arab Republic of Egypt flag
  • The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant's birthday.[40]
  • The Soviet Union created the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • The Kingdom of Egypt unveiled a new national flag, consisting of a green background with a white crescent and three stars.[41]
  • Born: Jack Klugman, American TV actor; in Philadelphia (d. 2012)
  • Died: William Henry Harrison Stowell, 81, U.S. Congressman, merchant and industrialist

April 28, 1922 (Friday)[]

  • Flooding left 12,000 people homeless in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Louisiana.[42]

April 29, 1922 (Saturday)[]

April 30, 1922 (Sunday)[]

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