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* 1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
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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 and Teapot
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1922 – 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
Later in 1922, Fall leased the oil production rights at Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair of Mammoth Oil, a subsidiary of Sinclair Oil.
1922 and Dome
Between 1922 and 1924, the Dome of the Rock was restored by the Islamic Higher Council.
Costas Catsellis, a young repatriate from the USA, came to the rescue by building the town's first modern hotels, the Seaview in 1922 and the Dome in 1932.
1922 and scandal
The scandal also was a key factor in posthumously further destroying the public reputation of the Harding administration, which was already unpopular due to its poor handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and the President's veto of the Bonus Bill in 1922.
When the Tories under Rodmond P. Roblin resigned amid scandal in 1915, he became the province's premier, and retained the position until 1922.
She was involved in scandal due to the 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor, who she professed her love for.
Peter Eckersley was the first Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Company, Limited from 1922 to 1927 and Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Corporation until 1929 when he was sacked by John Reith after divorcing his wife ( Reith was a deeply religious man and would not tolerate the ' scandal ' of having a divorced man working for him ).
The Atlanta Suburban Land Company held the park parcel until approximately 1922, when they collapsed during a land fraud scandal.
Peter Fitzroy Godber ( official name in Chinese: 葛柏 ) ( born 7 April 1922 in London ) was Kowloon's Deputy District Commissioner of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force and was caught in a bribery scandal after his retirement in 1973.
1922 and United
In 1922, the United Mine Workers struck the Coronado Coal Company.
Like the United Kingdom, prior to 1922 Australia used the rank Brigadier General
** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a sovereign state from 1801 to 1922 ( and between 1922 and 1927 in its superseded form )
Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.
* 2005 – Freeman V. Horner, United States Army officer ( b. 1922 )
Category: Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for Irish constituencies ( 1801 – 1922 )
Dublin Castle was the fortified seat of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British rule in Ireland until 1922.
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 ).
He worked for the United Press International and the American Legion News Service in 1921 and 1922 and then became a reporter for the Seattle Times in 1922 and 1923.
* 1922 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D. C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
* 1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
* 1922 – The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
When Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951 it was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and the third former European colony in Africa to gain independence after Egypt ( 1922 ) and Abyssinia ( 1941 ).
Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815 – 1922 ( 2007 )
This partition was entrenched in the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which was ratified in 1922, by which Ireland left the United Kingdom with Northern Ireland rejoining two days later.
* Sir John Ford ( born 1922 ), British Foreign Office official who served in Canada from 1978 to 1981 ( List of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to Canada )
* 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.
* 1922 – Nicholas Katzenbach, American jurist and 65th United States Attorney General
* John Ronald Brown ( 1922 – 2010 ), unlicensed United States sex-change operation surgeon
Lorrin A. Thurston formally annexed Kingman to the United States on May 10, 1922, by reading this declaration on shore:
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