June 1922
| << | June 1922 | >> | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |
The following events occurred in June 1922:
June 1, 1922 (Thursday)
- The Royal Ulster Constabulary was formed.[1]
- Rudolph Valentino appeared in Los Angeles court for a preliminary hearing on the bigamy charge against him. The courtroom was packed with spectators, mostly women, eager to see the screen idol.[2]
- Born: Povel Ramel, entertainer, in Östermalm, Sweden (d. 2007)
June 2, 1922 (Friday)
- Zhou Ziqi became the acting President of the Republic of China.
- Aimo Cajander became Prime Minister of Finland.
- Japan ratified the Shandong Treaty which improved relations with China.[3]
- Born: Charlie Sifford, golfer, in Charlotte, North Carolina (d. 2015)
- Died: Take Ionescu, 63, Romanian politician and writer
June 3, 1922 (Saturday)
- Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen set out from Seattle on an expedition to the North Pole.[4]
- The Igor Stravinsky opera buffa Mavra premiered at the Paris Opera.[1]
- YPF, an energy product and sales, based in South America, was founded in Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.
June 4, 1922 (Sunday)
- The steamer Villa Franca exploded and sank near Hohenau, Paraguay with the loss of about 80 lives.[5]
- Died: W. H. R. Rivers, 58, English doctor
June 5, 1922 (Monday)
- The U.S. Supreme Court decided Wyoming v. Colorado.
- H. P. Lovecraft wrote "What the Moon Brings".
- The U.S. state of Rhode Island licensed its first radio station, WEAN in Providence.[6]
June 6, 1922 (Tuesday)
- The Philippine legislative election was held. In the House of Representatives elections, the ruling Nacionalista Party won although it was split into two blocs.
- Died: Richard A. Ballinger, 63, mayor of Seattle and U.S. Secretary of the Interior; Lillian Russell, 61, American actress and singer
June 7, 1922 (Wednesday)
- The British Mount Everest expedition was called off after an avalanche killed 7 sherpas.[4][7]
June 8, 1922 (Thursday)
- King Alexander of Yugoslavia married Maria of Romania in a small cathedral in Belgrade. 100,000 people turned out in the rain to watch the royal procession through the streets.[8]
June 9, 1922 (Friday)
- Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland;[9] today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland.[10]
- In Soviet Russia, the Council of People's Commissars rejected the commercial treaty signed with Italy on May 24.[11]
- The month-long wave of murders and lynchings in Kirven, Texas finally ended, but many African-Americans left the area and Kirven has been a virtual ghost town ever since.[12]
June 10, 1922 (Saturday)
- Pillory won the Belmont Stakes horse race.[13]
- The Mabini Academy was founded in the Philippines.
- Born: Robert Alan Aurthur, screenwriter, director and producer, in New York City (d. 1978); Judy Garland, actress and singer, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota (d. 1969)
June 11, 1922 (Sunday)
- An afternoon storm in New York City killed about 45 people. 7 of them were killed when a ferris wheel in the Bronx collapsed.[14]
- Li Yuanhong became President of the Republic of China.
- The documentary film Nanook of the North was released.
June 12, 1922 (Monday)
- Katō Tomosaburō became 12th Prime Minister of Japan.
- Died: Wolfgang Kapp, 63, Prussian civil servant, journalist and nominal leader of the Kapp Putsch (cancer)
June 13, 1922 (Tuesday)
- France granted Austria a loan of 55 million francs.[15]
- Born: Mel Parnell, baseball player, in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2012)
June 14, 1922 (Wednesday)
- Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. president to be heard on the radio, addressing a crowd at the dedication of a memorial site for Francis Scott Key in Baltimore.[1][16]
- Died: Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard, 45, Indian-born British explorer, hunter and adventurer (sepsis)
June 15, 1922 (Thursday)
- The draft of the new Irish constitution was made public on the eve of elections. Women would be given the vote and the controversial Oath of Allegiance to the king was to be maintained.[17]
- Arverne, Queens was nearly leveled by a devastating fire that left 10,000 homeless.[18]
June 16, 1922 (Friday)
- The Irish general election was held in Southern Ireland. The Pro-Treaty faction of Sinn Féin led by Michael Collins won a plurality of seats.
- The De la Huerta–Lamont Treaty was signed in Mexico.
- Henry Berliner demonstrated a helicopter prototype at College Park, Maryland.[19]
June 17, 1922 (Saturday)
- English motorist Malcolm Campbell set a new land speed record of 216.87 km (134.75 miles) per hour, but the international motorsport authority in Paris refused to recognize it as official because it was not recorded with the specified electrical measuring devices.[20]
- The Copenhagen-based football club Husum Boldklub was established.
June 18, 1922 (Sunday)
- The First Zhili–Fengtian War officially ended in China with an armistice signed aboard the British cruiser HMS Curlew.[21]
- A Kurdish uprising began in Iraq.[3]
- Born: Claude Helffer, pianist, in Paris, France (d. 2004)
- Died: Jacobus Kapteyn, 71, Dutch astronomer
June 19, 1922 (Monday)
- The New York Times reported that biochemist E.V. McCollum had isolated a new vitamin called Vitamin D which prevented rickets.[1]
- The U.S. Senate passed its annual naval appropriation bill, but defeated an amendment by William H. King to withdraw American troops from Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.[22]
- Born: Aage Bohr, nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate, in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2009)
- Died: Hitachiyama Taniemon, 48, Japanese sumo wrestler
June 20, 1922 (Tuesday)
- Polish regular troops entered Katowice in accordance with the Upper Silesia Agreement of May 15.[23]
- Died: Vittorio Monti, 54, Italian composer and conductor
June 21, 1922 (Wednesday)
- The Herrin Massacre took place near Herrin, Illinois. Clashes between striking miners and strikebreakers resulted in 22 deaths.[24]
- The U.S. state of Arizona got its first licensed radio station, KFAD in Phoenix.[6]
- The Prince of Wales returned to London after an eight-month tour of the Far East.[25]
June 22, 1922 (Thursday)
- Sir Henry Wilson was shot dead outside his home in Eaton Square in London. Two Irishmen were chased down and arrested but it was not clear whether they were acting on orders from outside Britain or not.[4][26]
- State Farm, a major insurance service, which based in United States, founded.
- Born: Mona Lisa, film actress, in Tondo, Manila, Philippines
- Died: Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, 58, British Army officer (assassinated)
June 23, 1922 (Friday)
- London police arrested 20 men in connection with the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson.[4]
- Walter Hagen won the Open Championship, the first American-born winner of the golf tournament.[27]
June 24, 1922 (Saturday)
- Martial law was declared in Berlin after Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau was assassinated outside his home by nationalist extremists.[28][29]
- Japan announced it would withdraw from all of Siberia except for Sakhalin Island.[1]
- In Munich, Adolf Hitler began serving his prison sentence for disturbing the peace and assaulting Otto Ballerstedt.[30]
- The American Professional Football Association changed its name to the National Football League.[31]
- Born: Tata Giacobetti, singer, in Rome, Italy (d. 1988)
- Died: Walther Rathenau, 54, German Foreign Minister (assassinated); William Rockefeller, 81, American businessman and financier
June 25, 1922 (Sunday)
- The Centre Party won the Saar parliamentary election.
- Born: Gerald Joseph Faraola
June 26, 1922 (Monday)
- In a speech before the House of Commons, Secretary of State for the Colonies Winston Churchill warned the newly elected government in Southern Ireland that if it did not act to oust its rebels occupying the Four Courts, the British would.[32]
- Irish rebels kidnapped General JJ "Ginger" O'Connell.[26] "Ginger" O'Connell, 2 I/C Irish Free State Pro treaty army was arrested by the Anti Treaty Army Executive in the Four Courts, in retaliation for the arrest earlier that day of Leo Henderson who was leading a raid on Fergusons garage.[33]
- King George V opened the Wimbledon Championships at their new site in Queen's Road.[4]
- The Hague Conference began in the Netherlands, aimed at settling the debt of Soviet Russia to the Allies.[34]
- Died: Albert I, Prince of Monaco, 73
June 27, 1922 (Tuesday)
- Louis II became Prince of Monaco.
- The United States extended formal recognition to Albania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.[35]
- Born: Eleanor Parker, actress, in Cedarville, Ohio (d. 2013)
- Died: Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito, 54, Japanese prince
June 28, 1922 (Wednesday)
- In Dublin, the National Army troops demanded the surrender of the anti-Treaty IRA garrison in the Four Courts. When the IRA rebels maintained their positions, the government troops launched an artillery attack. The Irish Civil War had begun.[26]
- Artur Śliwiński became Prime Minister of Poland.
- Died: Velimir Khlebnikov, 36, Russian poet and playwright
June 29, 1922 (Thursday)
- The French government made 100 hectares of land at Vimy Ridge available to Canada free of taxation, to be used for a war memorial to the more than 60,000 Canadians killed in the Great War.[1]
- Born: Vasko Popa, poet, in Grebenac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (d. 1991)
June 30, 1922 (Friday)
- There was an enormous explosion in the Four Courts after munitions were ignited by shelling. The IRA garrison surrendered at about 4:00 p.m.[1][26]
- The U.S. government agreed to end the American military occupation of the Dominican Republic and began making plans with Dominican officials to hold elections to establish a national government.[3]
- Died: Tiny Maxwell, 37, American football player and referee (injuries from auto accident)
References
- "1922". Music And History. Archived from the original on August 28, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- Doherty, Edward (June 2, 1922). "Women Crowd Court at Plea of Valentino". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
- "Chronology 1922". indiana.edu. 2002. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- Mercer, Derrik (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-582-03919-3.
- "80 Perish as Steamer Sinks". Chicago Daily Tribune. June 5, 1922. p. 1.
- "AM Broadcasting History – Various Articles". Jeff Miller Web Pages. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- Heil, Nick (April 26, 2012). "Tragedy at 29,000 Feet: The 10 Worst Disasters on Everest". Outside. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- Lincoln, Proctor (June 9, 1922). "100,000, Soaked by Rain, Greet New Serb Queen". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 2.
- "Ahvenanmaa pähkinänkuoressa". Ahvenanmaa – ahaa! (in Finnish). 2007. p. 3.
- "Ahvenanmaan historiaa lyhyesti". Pohjola Norden (in Finnish). Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- Slusser, Robert M.; Triska, Jan F. (1959). A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917–1957. Stanford University Press. p. 400.
- "Kirven, Texas 1922". The Black Holocaust Society. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- "Pillory Wins Belmont Stakes". Chicago Daily Tribune. June 11, 1922. p. 21.
- "45 Known Dead in Storm; Seek 30 Other Bodies". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 12, 1922. p. 1.
- "Tageseinträge für 13. Juni 1922". chronikinet. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- "June 14 – This Day in History". History. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- "Irish Get 'Oath to the King'". Chicago Daily Tribune. June 16, 1922. p. 1.
- "Red Cross Aids 10,000 Made Homeless by $2,250,000 Fire in Averne; Probe Started". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 16, 1922. p. 1.
- Lemos, Robert (June 16, 2010). "June 16, 1922: Ich Bin Ein Berliner Helicopter". Wired. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- "Tageseinträge für 17. Juni 1922". chroniknet. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- "Dr. Sun Flees But His Troops Fire on Canton". Chicago Daily Tribune. June 19, 1922. p. 1.
- "Budget of Navy Passes; Marines Remain in Haiti". Chicago Daily Tribune. June 20, 1922. p. 6.
- "Tageseinträge für 20. Juni 1922". chroniknet. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- "Herrin Massacre". Illinois Labor History Society. Archived from the original on June 27, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- "Year End Review – 1922". CanadaGenWeb. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- "June 1922". Dublin City University. Archived from the original on March 28, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2012.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- "PGA of America History – 1920–1929". Professional Golfers Association. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- "Tageseinträge für 24. Juni 1922". chroniknet. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- Seldes, George (June 25, 1922). "Assassination of Rathenau Stirs Germany". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
- Richard J Evans: The Coming of the Third Reich. A History, 2004, S. 181; Joachim Fest: Hitler, 2002, S. 160 und 225.
- O'Neal, Michael J. (2006). America in the 1920s. Stonesong Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-4381-1870-3.
- Wales, Henry (June 27, 1922). "Irish Told to Oust Rebels or British will". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 4.
- [O'Malley Notebooks].
- "Tageseinträge für 26. Juni 1922". chroniknet. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- Martin, Lawrence; Reed, John (2007). The Treaties of Peace, 1919–1923, Volume 1. Clark, New Jersey: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. p. lxiii. ISBN 978-1-58477-708-3.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.