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 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50, 000 people.

* 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 )

At the 1922 and 1923 elections the Liberals won barely a third of the vote and only a quarter of the seats in the House of Commons, as many radical voters abandoned the divided Liberals and went over to Labour.

At the 1922 general election, Attlee became the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the constituency of Limehouse in Stepney.

At the time, he admired Ramsay MacDonald and helped MacDonald get elected as Labour Party leader at the 1922 Labour leadership election.

At age 20, following his 1922 trip to Peking, China, for an international Christian conference, he started to doubt his religious convictions.

At the request of his father, Adolf Lorenz, he began a premedical curriculum in 1922 at Columbia University, but he returned to Vienna in 1923 to continue his studies at the University of Vienna.

At the 1922 election, it won enough seats to deny the Nationalists an overall majority, and was the Nationalists ' only realistic coalition partner.

At war's end in 1922, ex-Tsarists constituted 83 per cent of the Red Army's divisional and corps commanders.

At first he translated from English ( from Fitzgerald's " translations ") ( 1922 ), after that from original language ( 1931 ).

At that meeting, all parties declared that the 1922 treaty of union creating the Soviet Union was annulled and that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist.

At the age of 15, after a short time in the electrical trade, in 1922 Askin joined the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales as a Clerk.

At the same time, from 1922, Banach also headed the second Chair of Mathematics at University of Lwów.

At the center of the campus at Tuskegee University, the Booker T. Washington Monument, called " Lifting the Veil ," was dedicated in 1922.

At a meeting of the 1922 committee on 22 November, Rab Butler made a speech appealing for party unity in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis.

At Place Honoré Commeurec is Les Halles Centrales, a covered market of 1922, with a part converted into contemporary art gallery.

* British — Coward, Sir Noël: " Parisian Pierrot " ( 1922 ; voice and orchestra ); Scott, Cyril: " Pierrot amoureux " ( 1912 ; voice and piano ), " Pierrot and the Moon Maiden " ( 1912 ; voice and piano ; text by Ernest Dowson from Pierrot of the Minute above under # England 2 | England ); Shaw, Martin: " At Columbine's Grave " ( 1922 ; voice and piano ; lyrics by Bliss Carman above under # Poetry | Poetry ).

At the closing of the games a prize was awarded for a sport that did not lend itself very well for tournaments: Pierre de Coubertin presented a prize for alpinisme to Charles Granville Bruce, the leader of the expedition that tried to climb Mount Everest in 1922.

At Granada in 1922 he became associated with the Concurso de Cante Jondo promoted by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla.

At the direction of the Comintern, Chen and the Chinese Communists formed an alliance with Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party ) in 1922.

At the 1922 general election, Attlee became MP for the constituency of Limehouse, which he represented while Deputy Prime Minister.

At a cost of about one million dollars, extremely expensive at the time for a single project, a hydroelectric system was completed in 1922.

At the city's 150th anniversary celebration in 1922, the hotel was renamed the Edison Hotel.

At the ensuing conclave ( the longest of the 20th century ), Ratti was elected Pope on 6 February 1922 on the fourteenth ballot, taking the name of Pius XI.

At the Handel Festival held in 1922 in Handel's native town, Halle, his choral works were given by a choir of 163 and an orchestra of 64.