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* 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways ( d. 2006 )
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* 1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
* 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1922 and Freddie
Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth ( March 18, 1922 – October 5, 2011 ), born Freddie Lee Robinson, was a U. S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama.
1922 and Laker
James " Jim " Charles Laker ( 9 February 1922 – 23 April 1986 ) was a cricketer who played for England in the 1950s, known for " Laker's match " in 1956 at Old Trafford, when he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia.
1922 and English
The Anglican Church of Canada developed its first Book of Common Prayer separately from the English version in 1918, which received final authorization from General Synod in 1922.
Wegener was the first to use the phrase " continental drift " ( 1912, 1915 ) ( in German " die Verschiebung der Kontinente " – translated into English in 1922 ) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow " drifted " apart.
The adventures of the Cimbri are described by the Danish nobel-prize-winning author, Johannes V. Jensen, himself born in Himmerland, in the novel Cimbrernes Tog ( 1922 ), included in the epic cycle Den lange Rejse ( English The Long Journey, 1923 ).
Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE ( 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956 ) was an English architect who, along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans.
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