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What Events Happened in 1922

  • The Wrigley Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States is completed


  • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created USSR


  • King George V Opens new concrete tennis stadium at Wimbledon


  • Nineteenth Amendment To The Constitution Passed giving the right of women to vote


  • The Tomb of Tutankhamen is discovered in the valley of the kings in Egypt


  • British Authorities sentence Gandhi in India to Prison


  • The British Broadcasting Company ( BBC ) is formed and financed by a Post Office licence fee of 10 shillings, payable by anyone owning a radio receiver


  • Mussolini and the Fascist party come to power in Italy


  • Under new additional Prohibition Laws home brewing is illegal


  • Fifty thousand people affected During Lower Louisiana Floods causing concerns over starvation


  • Egypt under King Fuad Declares Independence


  • The Reader’s Digest Magazine is launched


  • Ralph Samuelson ( Minnisota )is the first person to Ski on Water and the sport of Waterskiing is born

Health 1922

  • First successful insulin treatment of diabetes

Technology

  • By 1922 over 500 commercial radio stations are in operation in the United States


  • The first public radio broadcasts in Britain and France


  • The first US Aircraft Carrier The "USS Langley" Commissioned


  • The Austin Seven Popularizes Motoring