The Stern – Gerlach experiment of 1922 provided further evidence of the quantum nature of the atom.

* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

* 1922 – The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.

* 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways ( d. 2006 )

* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )

* 1922 – Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

* 1922 – Charles I of Austria ( b. 1887 )

* 1998 – Gene Evans, American actor ( b. 1922 )

* 2012 – Lionel Bowen, Australian politician ( b. 1922 )

* 1863 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian writer and journalist ( d. 1922 )

* 2001 – Christopher Hewett, English actor ( b. 1922 )

* 2002 – Carmen Silvera, English actress ( b. 1922 )

* 1892 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer ( d. 1922 )

* 1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1922 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer ( d. 1985 )

* 1922 – Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian

* 1922 – Károly Reich, Hungarian illustrator ( d. 1988 )

* 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.

* 1922 – Kingsley Amis, English author ( d. 1995 )

* 1922 – Pat Peppler, American football coach and executive

* 1922 – Léo Tindemans, Belgian politician

* 1847 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician ( d. 1922 )

After a few more moderate hits, in 1949 he released his version of the 1922 Clifford Friend & Irving Mills song " Lovesick Blues ", made popular by Rex Griffin.

Inspired by the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the Curse of the Pharaohs, producer Carl Laemmle Jr. commissioned story editor Richard Shayer to find a literary novel to form a basis for an Egyptian-themed horror film, just as Dracula and Frankenstein informed their previous hits.

By the 1922 season, Hornsby was considered a big star, having led the league in batting average, hits, doubles, and runs batted in multiple times.

On September 22, he registered five hits in a game for the fourth time in the season, tying a mark set by Ty Cobb in 1922.

His 1922 season — during which he batted. 420, hit safely in a then-record 41 consecutive games, led the American League in hits ( 246 ), stolen bases ( 51 ), and triples ( 18 ), and was, by general consensus, the best fielding first baseman in the game — is considered by many historians to be among the best individual all-around single-season performances in baseball history.

His hits total broke the previous National League record of 250 set by Rogers Hornsby of the 1922 St. Louis Cardinals.

The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union.

The CIRA considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army ( the army of the unilaterally-declared 1919 – 1922 Irish Republic ) that fought in the Irish War of Independence ; as such, its supporters regard it as the national army of a 32 county Irish Republic.

In order to endorse its republican and liberal tradition, the song was chosen for national anthem of Germany in 1922, during the Weimar Republic.

Since the beginning of Norman rule in the 12th century, the city has functioned as the capital in varying geopolitical entities: Lordship of Ireland ( 1171 – 1541 ), Kingdom of Ireland ( 1541 – 1800 ), island as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801 – 1922 ), and the Irish Republic ( 1919 – 1922 ).

Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, it became the capital of the Irish Free State ( 1922 – 1949 ) and now is the capital of the Republic of Ireland.

Also used by Weimar Republic foreign services ( 1922 – 33 )

The Republic of Turkey was created after the overthrow of Sultan Mehmet VI Vahdettin by the new Republican Parliament in 1922.

* 1922 – In Washington D. C., U. S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.

A devout Catholic, he was a leading Centre Party politician in the Weimar Republic, he served as Mayor of Cologne ( 1917 – 1933 ) and president of the Prussian State Council ( 1922 – 1933 ).

During the Weimar Republic, he was president of the Prussian State Council ( Preußischer Staatsrat ) from 1922 to 1933, which was the representative of the Prussian cities and provinces.

Revolutionary socialist governments espousing Marxist concepts took power in a variety of countries in the 20th century, leading to the formation of such socialist states as the Soviet Union in 1922 and the People's Republic of China in 1949.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

After the October Revolution of 1917, Leninism was the dominant version of Marxism in Russia, and then the official state ideology of Soviet democracy ( by workers ’ council ) in the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic ( RSFSR ), before its unitary amalgamation into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ), in 1922.

* 1922 – Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic

Though the duchy's territory officially became an integral part of the Netherlands by the 1867 Treaty of London, the text passage remained unchanged when the Deutschlandlied was declared the national anthem of the Weimar Republic in 1922.

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( called Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic at the time ) together with the Ukrainian, Byelorussian, and Transcaucasion Soviet Socialist Republics, formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ), or Soviet Union, on 30 December 1922.

The Soviet Union came into being under the treaty of union in December 1922, which was signed by Russia and three other union republics – Belarus, Ukraine, and what was then the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic ( an entity including what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia ).

Within the politically heated turmoil of the early Weimar Republic, the media frequently used the term Fememord to refer to right-wing political homicides, e. g. the murder of Jewish politicians such as Kurt Eisner ( 1919 ), Matthias Erzberger ( 1921 ), or Walther Rathenau ( 1922 ) by right-wing groups such as Organisation Consul.

After the victory of Bolshevist Russia in the Russian Civil War, the Ukrainian SSR was created in 1922, and in 1924 the Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established on a strip of Ukrainian land on the left bank of the Dniester River where Moldovans and Romanians accounted for less than a third and the relative majority of population was Ukrainian.

From July to August 1922 they held the city and county as part of the so called Munster Republic.