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 – 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 – Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War (" Turkish War of Independence ").

However, it was recovered on 27 August 1922, a key moment in the great Turkish counter-attack in the Aegean region.

Finally, in August 1922, the Turkish army shattered the Greek front, and took Smyrna.

* 1922 – The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.

The literary and official language during the Ottoman Empire period ( c. 1299 – 1922 ) is termed Ottoman Turkish, which was a mixture of Turkish, Persian, and Arabic that differed considerably and was largely unintelligible to the period's everyday Turkish known as kaba Türkçe or " rough Turkish ", spoken by the less-educated lower and also rural members of society, which was much purer and which is the basis of the modern Turkish language.

) The army of the government of the GNA won the Turkish War of Independence in 1922.

On 20 November 1922, the peace conference was opened and after strenuous debate was interrupted by Turkish protest on 4 February 1923.

Total Ottoman population losses from 1914 – 1922 were approximately 5 million including the Spanish flu deaths, the Turkish War of Independence from 1919 – 1922 and the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, these other population losses are not included with the casualties of World War I.

** Greco – Turkish War ( May 1919 – October 1922 )

The Turkish Grand National Assembly abolished the Sultanate on 1 November 1922, and Mehmed was expelled from Constantinople, aboard the British warship Malaya on 17 November.

After the fall of the Ottoman dynasty as Emperors of the Ottoman State ( Padishahan-i Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmaniyye in Ottoman Turkish ), Abdulmecid II ( 1922 ) still was proclaimed Caliph with the title Halife (" Caliph ", in modern Turkish ) by the Turkish Nationalist Assembly of the city of Ankara on November 19th 1922.

It was briefly occupied by the Bulgarians in 1913, following the Battle of Odrin ; and by the Greeks between the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920 and the end of the Turkish War of Independence in 1922.

Because Alec and his parents were British subjects, they were evacuated to Malta by British Royal Marines in September 1922, ahead of the Great Fire of Smyrna and the Turkish re-possession of Smyrna at the end of the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919 – 1922 ).

The CIRA considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army ( the army of the unilaterally-declared 1919 – 1922 Irish Republic ) that fought in the Irish War of Independence ; as such, its supporters regard it as the national army of a 32 county Irish Republic.

The catastrophe deepened the political crisis, with the returning army rising up under Venizelist officers and forcing King Constantine to abdicate again, in September 1922, in favour of his firstborn son, George II.

* Roma ( airship ), a US army airship ( Italian ex-T34 ) which crashed on February 21, 1922

After visiting London for the memorial, Philip and his mother returned to Greece where Prince Andrew had remained behind to command an army division embroiled in the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919 – 1922 ).

General Pietro Badoglio advised King Victor Emmanuel III that he could easily sweep Mussolini and his rag-tag Blackshirt army to one side, but Victor Emmanuel decided to tolerate Mussolini and appointed him as prime minister on October 28, 1922.

In 1919, he joined the Japanese Imperial army, and left in 1922.

To further strengthen the authority of the state, the Supreme War Council was established under the leadership of Yamagata Aritomo ( 1838 – 1922 ), a Chōshū native who has been credited with the founding of the modern Japanese army and was to become the first constitutional prime minister.

Following an army revolt, Constantine abdicated the throne again on 27 September 1922 and was succeeded by his eldest son, George II.

It was abolished in both the army and the marines in 1922, being replaced in the army by the grade of colonel commandant ( which already existed in the marines ).

On February 1922, after applying for extended unpaid leave, Peng and several other officers traveled to Guangdong to seek employment in the army of the Kuomintang.

Following this cultural catastrophe, the Imperial Court relocated to the Forbidden City, where it stayed until 1922, when the Last Emperor, Puyi, was expelled by a republican army.

His last act as CIGS ( January 1922 ) was to argue against Geddes ’ recommendation of further army cuts of 50, 000 men ( from 210, 000 ) and £ 20m off the £ 75m estimates, leaving only 4 battalions in Ulster.

He resigned from the army, being replaced as CIGS by The Earl of Cavan on 19 February 1922, and was elected on 21 February 1922

Mac Eoin joined the new army of the Irish Free State and was appointed GOC Western Command in June 1922.

The army of the Far Eastern Republic retook Vladivostok on 25 October 1922, effectively bringing the Russian Civil War to a close.

On 29 of May 1922 Polish army officially claimed the city for Poland.

The Turkish army entered Smyrna / İzmir on 9 September 1922, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ) in the field.

The alleged atrocities committed by the Greek army during the Greek occupation of Western Anatolia ( 1919 – 1922 ) left a lasting impression on the Turkish mind.

* Alexey Kalinin ( 1922 – 1943 ), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union