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January 1

• Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road

January 3

• 1st living person identified on a U.S. coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar

January 6

• Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments

January 9

• KQV-AM in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions

January 9

• Rotterdam metal strike ends

January 11

• Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)

January 13

• Buck Weaver, a Black Sox, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement

January 13

• Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended

January 13

• WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions

January 15

• Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier

January 18

• Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin

January 19

• Geological survey says U.S. oil supply would be depleted in 20 years

January 20

• Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres, Paris

January 21

• 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland

January 24

• -54 degrees F (-48 degrees C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)

January 24

• Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)

January 24

• Lehman Caves National Monument established

January 26

• Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London

January 28

• American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"

January 28

• J. E. Clair turns Green Bay franchise back to NFL

January 29

• Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved

January 30

• Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW

January 30

• World Law Day, 1st celebrated

February 2

• It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22

February 2

• James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)

February 4

• WGY-AM in Schenectady New York begins radio transmissions

February 5

• Reader's Digest magazine 1st published

February 6

• Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI

February 6

• U.S., U.K., France, Italy and Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation

February 7

• John Willard's "Cat and the Canary," premieres in New York City

February 8

• Radio arrives at the White House

February 9

• Italian government of Bonomi falls

February 9

• Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii

February 11

• "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1

February 11

• U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras

February 15

• Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex

February 18

• Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball

February 18

• WOC-AM in Davenport, Iowa begins radio transmissions

February 19

• Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer

February 20

• Marc Connelly and George Kaufman's "To the Ladies," premieres in New York City

February 20

• Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland

February 20

• WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions

February 21

• Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die

February 21

• Great Britain grants Egypt independence

February 21

• WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions

February 22

• Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin

February 27

• Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference

February 27

• G. B. Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in New York City

February 27

• Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote

February 28

• Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain

February 28

• English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles

February 28

• KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions

March 2

• WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting

March 2

• WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions

March 3

• Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka

March 3

• WWJ-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions

March 5

• "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin

March 6

• Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year New York Yankee contract

March 6

• GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premieres in New York City

March 7

• U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

March 7

• U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger

March 9

• Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in New York City

March 9

• KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions

March 10

• KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions

March 10

• State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa

March 11

• Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games

March 13

• George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in New York City

March 13

• NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St. Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games

March 13

• WRR-AM in Dallas Texas begins radio transmissions

March 14

• KGU-AM in Honolulu Hawaii begins radio transmissions

March 14

• KSD-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions

March 14

• WGR-AM in Buffalo New York begins radio transmissions

March 15

• 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)

March 16

• Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt

March 16

• WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions

March 18

• 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)

March 18

• British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience

March 18

• WBT-AM in Charlotte North Carolina begins radio transmissions

March 20

• USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier

March 20

• WIP-AM in Philadelphia Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions

March 21

• KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions

March 22

• British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison

March 23

• 1st airplane lands at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

March 23

• KMJ-AM in Fresno California begins radio transmissions

March 23

• WEW-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions

March 24

• Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish

March 28

• 1st microfilm device introduced

March 28

• Stanley Cup: Toronto St. Pats (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2

March 30

• KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions

March 30

• WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions

March 31

• KFI-AM in Los Angeles California begins radio transmissions

March 31

• Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam

April 3

• Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party

April 4

• WAAB (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) becomes 1st U.S. radio station with "W" calls

April 5

• KOB-AM in Albuquerque, New Mexico begins radio transmissions

April 5

• WDZ-AM in Decatur, Illinois begins radio transmissions

April 7

• Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair

April 14

• Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin

April 15

• Banting, MacLeod and Best discover insulin

April 15

• Poodle Dog Restaurant closes

April 16

• Annie Oakley sets record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row

April 16

• German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized

April 18

• Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0

April 19

• 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:18:10

April 22

• South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR

April 27

• Fritz Langs "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin

April 27

• Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR

April 28

• WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station

April 29

• 1st official International Weightlifting Federation Champ (Tallinn, Estonia)

April 30

• Chicago White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0

May 1

• Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game

May 2

• WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Ft. Worth Texas

May 3

• Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium

May 3

• Salt layer find at Winterswijk

May 4

• KNX-AM in Los Angeles, California begins radio transmissions

May 5

• Construction begins on Yankee Stadium

May 7

• Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2

May 7

• New York Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0

May 10

• Dr. Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar

May 10

• WHB-AM in Kansas City Missouri begins radio transmissions

May 13

• 48th Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 2:04.6

May 13

• 48th Preakness: L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 1:51.6

May 16

• White Star Line Majestic completes 5 day maiden voyage

May 18

• Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hours)

May 20

• Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless

May 20

• "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90

May 21

• "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize

May 21

• Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)

May 23

• "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances

May 23

• Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat

May 23

• Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films

May 24

• Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6 degrees C)

May 24

• Russian-Italian trade agreement signed

May 25

• Babe Ruth suspended 1 day and fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump

May 26

• Lenin suffers a stroke

May 29

• Ecuador becomes independent

May 29

• U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws

May 30

• Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day

May 30

• Latvia and Vatican sign accord

May 30

• Lincoln Memorial dedicated

June 2

• Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances

June 10

• 54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8

June 12

• German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich

June 12

• St. Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times

June 12

• St. Louis gets record 10 hits in a row and beats Phillies 14-8

June 13

• Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops

June 14

• 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa

June 14

• Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament

June 14

• President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

June 16

• Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics

June 19

• Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2)

June 23

• 57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St. George

June 24

• AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears

June 27

• Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)

July 5

• 1st general election in Netherlands

July 5

• Uprising of social righteousness in Rio de Janeiro

July 5

• Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win

July 6

• Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy

July 8

• 35th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60)

July 9

• Johnny Weissmuller swims 1st 100 m free style under 1 minute

July 15

• 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in U.S., at New York zoo

July 15

• 26th U.S. Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill

July 17

• Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto

July 17

• Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year

July 20

• Togo made a mandate of League of Nations

July 22

• Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St. Louis teams are on top

July 25

• AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA and WFAN)

July 27

• International Geographical Union forms in Brussels

July 31

• 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)

July 31

• Italy's general strike against fascist violence

August 1

• Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard

August 2

• China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die

August 4

• Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team

August 8

• Italian general strike broken by fascist terror

August 8

• Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies)

August 12

• Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Washington D.C. as national shrine

August 14

• 1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)

August 16

• AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (New York City)

August 19

• 36th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)

August 20

• 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris

August 21

• Curly Lambeau and Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise

August 24

• 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)

August 25

• Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game

August 26

• Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed

August 27

• Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)

August 28

• 1st Walker Cup: U.S. beats England 8-4

August 28

• Albert von Tilzer and Neville Fleesons musical premieres in New York City

August 28

• WEAF in New York City airs 1st radio commercia, Queensboro Realty, $100 for 10 minutes

August 30

• Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922

September 1

• New York City law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"

September 2

• President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem

September 4

• Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3)

September 5

• 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)

September 5

• Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years)

September 6

• 42nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64

September 9

• St. Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0

September 9

• Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens

September 9

• William T. Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins

September 10

• Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive home runs

September 11

• British mandate of Palestine begins

September 11

• Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader

September 12

• Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)

September 13

• 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)

September 15

• Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 home runs in a game since 1897

September 16

• 42nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (46 36 62 63 64)

September 16

• Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia

September 17

• Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ

September 17

• Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)

September 18

• 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands

September 18

• Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by New York's Joe Bush

September 18

• Hungary admitted to League of Nations

September 19

• Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech

September 20

• Goodman and Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in New York City

September 20

• Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games

September 21

• President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

September 23

• B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany

September 24

• Neurenberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky

September 24

• Roger Hornsby sets NL home run mark at 42

September 25

• Giants beat St. Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant

September 27

• King Constantine I of Greece abdicates

September 28

• Mussolini marches on Rome

September 29

• Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program

September 30

• Government of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece

September 30

• New York Yankees clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1

October 1

• Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0

October 1

• Rogers Hornsby's 3-for-5 ups avg to .401

October 3

• 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.

October 3

• Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate

October 4

• For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ and WGY)

October 4

• Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence

October 5

• Yankees and Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game

October 6

• Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslovakia

October 7

• 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Senectady) link for World Series

October 7

• Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain

October 7

• Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria

October 8

• New York Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series

October 11

• 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)

October 11

• Turkey and Greece sign cease fire

October 14

• 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in New York City

October 14

• 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue New York City

October 17

• Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London

October 18

• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms

October 20

• Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place

October 22

• Lucerne Street in Bronx named

October 22

• Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera

October 23

• Channing Pollock's "Fool," premieres in New York City

October 23

• Conservative A Bonar forms new government in England

October 24

• German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925

October 24

• Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State

October 26

• Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini

October 27

• 1st commemoration of Navy Day

October 27

• Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws

October 28

• 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game

October 28

• Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government

October 30

• Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the New York Giants pay $65,000 and 3 players for Jack Bentley (hits .349 and is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922)

October 30

• Mussolini forms government in Italy

October 31

• Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy

October 31

• Karel and Josef Capek's "World We Live In," premieres in New York City

November 1

• Ottoman Empire abolished

November 1

• Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam

November 2

• Allies deliberate over German mark

November 2

• Australian Qantas airways begins service

November 3

• Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life

November 5

• Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent

November 6

• King George V proclaims Irish Free state

November 11

• Largest U.S. flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90')

November 13

• Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY

November 13

• George Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly," premieres in New York City

November 13

• Marc Connelly/George Kaufman's "'49ers," premieres in New York City

November 14

• BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House

November 14

• German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth term ends

November 15

• British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party

November 16

• Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite

November 16

• Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help

November 17

• Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship

November 18

• Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief

November 19

• Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent

November 20

• Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in New York City

November 21

• Rebecca L. Felton sworn in as 1st female U.S. Senator

November 22

• British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader

November 22

• Library Ave in Bronx named

November 22

• Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government

November 24

• Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"

November 25

• Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince-regent

November 28

• 6 old minsters in Greece, executed

November 28

• Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (New York City) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called

November 30

• 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho

November 30

• Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich

December 1

• 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Captain Turner, RAF

December 1

• Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns

December 2

• 10th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1

December 3

• 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York City

December 4

• Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman Legation Secretary-U.S. foreign service

December 6

• 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation

December 6

• 1st electric power line commercial carrier in U.S., Utica, New York

December 9

• Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president

December 10

• Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein

December 10

• Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards

December 13

• Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps

December 15

• IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague

December 16

• Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs formally organizes

December 16

• NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket

December 17

• Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate

December 19

• Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times

December 20

• 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.)

December 20

• Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president

December 22

• Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent

December 23

• BBC Radio began daily newscasts

December 23

• Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano

December 24

• BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"

December 24

• London Coloseum opens

December 25

• Lenin dictates his "Political testament"

December 29

• Dutch Constitution proclaimed

December 29

• Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage

December 30

• Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR

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