1922 in the United States
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| Years: | 1919 1920 1921 – 1922 – 1923 1924 1925 |
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Timeline of United States history
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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 30 – Knickerbocker Storm: Snowfall from the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.
- February 3 – American actor William Desmond Taylor is murdered.
- February 7 – Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy
- 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.
April–June
May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated
- 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.
- 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 opens.
- July 30 600 WMT begins broadcasting
October–December
- October 3 – Rebecca 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 had 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 to promote the repeal of Prohibition in the United States.
- The California grizzly bear becomes extinct.
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
- January 17 – Betty White, actress, comedian and writer
- 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)
- February 6 – Jocelyn Burdick, U.S. Senator from North Dakota in 1992.
- February 10 – Harold Hughes, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1969 to 1975 (d.d 1996)
- 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)
- April 16 – Pat Peppler, American football player and coach
- April 19 – Billy Joe Patton, amateur golfer (d. 2011)
- May 11
- Nestor Chylak, baseball player and umpire (d. 1992)
- Thelma Eisen, baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
- June 10 – Judy Garland, singer and movie actress (d. 1969).
- July 19 – Al Haig, jazz pianist, best known as a pioneer of bebop (d. 1982)
- August 2 – Paul Laxalt, U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1974 to 1987
- December 24 – Ava Gardner, actress (died 1990)
- October 30 – Marie Van Brittan Brown, inventor
- December 28 – Stan Lee, comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics
Deaths
- June 22 – Newton C. Blanchard, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1904 till 1908. (born 1849)
- August 1 – Francis S. White, United States Senator from Alabama from 1914 till 1915. (born 1847)
- August 23 – Albert J. Hopkins, United States Senator from Illinois from 1903 till 1909. (born 1846)
- November 6 – Morgan Bulkeley, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1905 till 1911. (born 1837)
See also
References
- ↑ "The Hartford herald. (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, May 17, 1922, Image 1". 1922-05-17. ISSN 1943-8710. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
- ↑ "1925PA.....33..502O Page 502". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
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