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What News 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 on February 27th giving the right of women to vote
  • The Tomb of Tutankhamen is discovered on November 4th in the valley of the kings in Egypt
  • British Authorities sentence Gandhi in India to Prison
  • Lincoln Memorial is dedicated by Former US President William Howard Taft
  • The British Broadcasting Company ( BBC ) is formed on October 18th 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 in 1922
  • The Reader’s Digest Magazine is launched
  • Ralph Samuelson ( Minnesota )is the first person to Ski on Water and the sport of Waterskiing is born
  • The Irish Free State Is Created


Health 1922

  • First successful insulin treatment of diabetes in Canada in 1922

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 produced by the Austin Motor Company Popularizes Motoring in England





Major World Political Leaders 1922

Australia Prime Minister Billy Hughes

Brazil President Epitácio Pessoa Till 15 November
Brazil President Artur Bernardes From 15 November

Canada Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

Italy Prime Minister Of Italy Ivanoe Bonomi Till 26 February
Italy Prime Minister Of Italy Luigi Facta From 26 February
Italy Prime Minister Of Italy Luigi Facta Till 31 October
Italy Prime Minister Benito Mussolini From 31 October

Japan Prime Minister Korekiyo Takahashi Till 12 June
Japan Prime MinisterTomosaburō Katō From 12 June

Mexico President Álvaro Obregón

Russia / Soviet Union
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Vladimir Lenin

South Africa Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts

United States President Warren G. Harding

United Kingdom Prime Minister David Lloyd George till 19 October
United Kingdom Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law From 23 October

Political Elections 1922


British General Election 1922 Andrew Bonar Law ( Conservative ) defeats John Robert Clynes ( Labour )


The Information above is taken from our new page that gives world leaders from 1920 to current.

Political World Leaders From 1920 To Current