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 )

* 1922 – Arrest of Mahatma Gandhi, sentenced to six years jail for treason.

During the independence movement, the All India session of the Congress was held under the presidency of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das in 1922, which was attended by great illumanaries and prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement, such as Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Dr Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad, Nehru and Sri Krishna Sinha.

When Mahatma Gandhi aborted the struggle in 1922 following the Chauri Chaura Incident, Patel left the Congress to form the Swaraj Party with Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru, which would seek to foil the Raj by sabotaging the government after gaining entry in the councils.

Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned here in 1906, and striking white mineworkers in 1907, 1913 and 1922.

The Swaraj Party was formed on 1 January, 1923 by Indian politicians and members of the Indian National Congress who had opposed Mahatma Gandhi's suspension of all civil resistance on 5 February 1922 in response to the Chauri Chaura tragedy, where policemen were killed by a mob of protestors.

Gandhi always fought against " communalism ," which pitted Muslims against Hindus in politics, but he could not reverse the rapid growth of communalism after 1922.

Gandhi was arrested on 10 March 1922, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years ' imprisonment.

* 1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience.

Although initially close to Gandhi, he openly criticized Gandhi's suspension of civil resistance in 1922 due to the murder of policemen by a riotous mob in Chauri Chaura in Uttar Pradesh.

In 1922, Gandhi called off the non-cooperation movement.

After suspension of the non-cooperation movement in 1922 by Gandhi, Azad became more aggressive.

Chauri Chaura came into prominence in 1922 when its inhabitants whole-heartedly participated in the Non-co-operation movement started by Gandhi.

Gandhi's supporters were in a vast majority in the Congress, and the Congress still remained India's largest political party, but Gandhi felt it necessary to heal the divide with the Swarajists, so as to heal the nation's wounds over the 1922 suspension.

This was particularly notable when Gandhi stopped all nationwide civil resistance in 1922 after the Chauri Chaura incident.

As Simmel ( 1908 ) and Dilthey ( 1922 ) indicated, questions of whether the value of life is individual or social are not questions, but assertions of faith made to appear as legitimate questions.

The first mention of " The Ashes " in Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack occurs in 1905, while Wisdens first account of the legend is in the 1922 edition.

Its first recording is an a cappella version from 1922 by the Sacred Harp Choir.

* 1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.

* 1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.

* 1922 – The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A & M graduates who had died in the previous year.

However, the Californian, North African ( Atlas bear ), and Mexican subspecies were hunted to extinction in the 1870s, 1922, and more recently, respectively, and the not officially recognized Marsican brown bear in central Italy is believed to have a population of just 30 to 40 bears.

In February 1922, Winston Churchill telegraphed Herbert Samuel asking for cuts in expenditure and noting: In both Houses of Parliament there is growing movement of hostility, against Zionist policy in Palestine, which will be stimulated by recent Northcliffe articles.

Bill Macy ( born Wolf Mavin Garber, May 18, 1922 ) is an American television and stage actor.

The current list of 88 constellations recognised by the International Astronomical Union since 1922 is based on the 48 listed by Ptolemy in his Almagest in the 2nd century.

For instance, it defined chemical engineering to be a " science of itself, the basis of which is ... unit operations " in a 1922 report ; and with which principle, it had published a list of academic institutions which offered " satisfactory " chemical engineering courses.

Population censuses have been taken in Estonia in 1881, 1897, 1922, 1934, 1959, 1970, 1979, 1989 and 2000, and is being taken in January 2012.

James Charles Evers ( born September 11, 1922 ), the older brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi.

He is not perfectly trustworthy in details, and his agenda is always to inculcate culturally " correct " Stoic opinions, perhaps so that his readers will not feel guilty, but Jane Ellen Harrison found survivals of archaic rites mentioned by Aelian very illuminating in her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion ( 1903, 1922 ).

One of the earliest, and probably the most well-known, is DIN 476 — the standard that introduced the A-series paper sizes in 1922 — adopted in 1975 as International Standard ISO 216.

* 1922 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.

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.

* 1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.

* 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

His backstory is that he was a bomber pilot and one day he landed at Windy Hill in 1922.