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 )

Woolley went onto to excavate Ur between 1922 and 1934, discovering the ' Royal Cemeteries ' of the 3rd millennium BC.

* 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

File: Royal Standard of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( variant ), 1920s to 1937. svg | Royal Standard of the King ( 1922 – 1937 )

The 1922 War Office report detailed the casualties of " soldiers who lost their lives ", " killed in action, died as prisoners, died of wounds and missing " from the Regular and Territorial Forces and Royal Naval Division: 702, 410 from the UK, 507 from " other colonies " and 2, 393 British serving in the Indian Empire Army.

By 1922, after travels in California, Oliver was the jazz king in Chicago, performing as King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band at the Royal Gardens ( later renamed the Lincoln Gardens ).

Hughes's short play The Sister's Tragedy was in the West End at the Royal Court Theatre by 1922.

The inauguration of this commemorative monument took place before the Royal College of Curepipe on Saturday 15 April 1922, which was decreed a public holiday.

* Royal Ulster Constabulary, the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001

The Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) was the name of the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2000.

It was founded on 1 June 1922 out of the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ).

On 29 April 1922, King George V granted to the force the name Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ).

The chief officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary was its Inspector-General ( the last of whom, Sir Thomas J. Smith served from 11 March 1920 until partition in 1922 ).

From 1922 to 1924, she studied at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's Acting School in Stockholm.

Having already been made president of the anthropological section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1911, after the war he became president of the English Folk-Lore Society ( 1920 ), and the Royal Anthropological Institute ( 1921 – 1922 ).

They enjoyed these titles for life, even after the Royal Rescript regulating the styles and titles of the Royal House following Egypt's independence in 1922, when the sons and daughters of the newly styled King () were granted the title Sahib ( at ) us-Sumuw al-Malaki, or Royal Highness.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1922.

* Royal Munster Fusiliers, referred to as the Munsters, a British Army regiment from Ireland disbanded in 1922

* Royal Irish Regiment ( 1684 – 1922 )-disbanded

In 1908 he was awarded the Lyell Medal, in 1911 made a Fellow of the Royal Society, and from 1920 to 1922 served as the President of the Geological Society of London, dying on 15 July 1936.