1922
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Events
- British Protectorate over Egypt ends. Egypt remains a British puppet state under military occupation and indirect political control.
- U.S. Marines continue the nineteen year long occupation of Haiti, from 1915-1934.
- Future U.S. President Harry S. Truman is elected judge of the County Court of Jackson County, Missouri.
- Future Guinean leader Sekou Toure is born in Frannah.
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is founded.
- First electronic speech synthesis by AT&T's Development and Research Department.
- General Strike by white workers in South Africa.
- The Hilter Youth is established in Germany.
- Bolshevik expropriations expert S.A. Ter-Petrosian or Kamo dies.
- Marcel Sembat dies.
Timeline
January
- January 7: Dail Eireann votes to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty 64 votes to 57 votes.
- January 22: Pope Benedict XV dies and is succeeded by Pius XI.
February
- February: 44 die from political violence in Northern Ireland.
- February 11: U.S. intervenes militarily in Honduras.
- February 18: Black and Tans demobilized and sent home to Britain.
- February 23: Protestant paramilitary throws a bomb at a group of Roman Catholic schoolchildren in Weaver Street, Belfast, killing 6.
March
- March: 61 die from political violence in Belfast.
- March 12: Jack Kerouac is born.
- March 15: Special Powers Act passed by Stormont Parliament in Northern Ireland.
- March 16: Sultan Fuad I was crowned king of Egypt.
- March 20: U.S. President Warren Harding ordered U.S. troops withdrawn from the Rhineland.
April
- April: Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) is disbanded.
- April 7: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases the Navy's Teapot Dome oil field.
- April 15: Harold Washington, first black mayor of Chicago, is born.
- April 16: Treaty of rapallo is signed.
May
- May 29: U.S. Supreme Court renders absurd decision that organized baseball is a sport and thus not subject to antitrust laws.
June
- June 14: Warren Harding became the first president heard on radio.
- June 24: Walther Rathenau is assassinated by two rightist German Army officers (two months after the signing of the Treaty of Rapallo.)
- June 30: Sir Henry Wilson, the British deputy for Northern Ireland, assassinated in London.
July
- July 21: Turkish dictator Djemal Pasha is assassinated.
August
- August 7: Irish Republican Army cuts cable linking the U.S. and Europe at Waterville landing station.
September
- September 21: Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act passed by U.S. Congress.
October
- October 1-4: Italian Socialist Party (PSI) splits in its Nineteenth Congress into the PSI and the Unitary Socialist Party (PSU) over the question of collaboratign with liberal parties against the fascists.
- October 19: Lloyd George resigns as British PM.
- October 22: Italian Fascists conduct so-called "March on Rome." Mostly they rode in cars.
- October 28: Italian King Victor Emmuel III fails to sign an order declaring martial law to suppress the fascist takeover of the government.
- October 29: Fascist Duce Benito Mussolini takes a sleeper train into Rome.
- October 30: Squads of Fascist militia move into Rome and other cities attacking their political opponents on the left.
November
- November 16: Fascist Duce Benito Mussolini asks the Italian parliament for a vote of confidence in his new government. Fearful Liberal Party and Catholic Party members of parliament cave to the promise that Mussolini will restore order after the fascist rampage.
December
- December 4: Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, is withdrawn from the Senate after a southern Senator's filibuster.
- December 6: Irish Free State formally established.
- December 8: Irish Free State orders shooting of 4 IRA prisoners in reprisal for the shooting of a TD.
- December 15: Fascist Grand Council, which performs the function of both the state and ruling party, is established.
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