1922 encyclopedia topics

June 14 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes first speech on the radio.
June 22 - Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British field marshal Henry Hughes Wilson in Belgravia; assassins are sentenced to death July 18.
June 24 - Assassination of Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau - murderers are captured July 17
June 26 - Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.
June 28 - The Irish Civil War begins

September 9 - Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter İzmir
September 11 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
September 13 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
September 13 - 15 - Fire, probably started by Turkish troops, destroys most of Smyrna. Death toll estimated 100,000
September 18 - Hungary joins the League of Nations
September 22 - Mandate of Palestine approved by the Council of the League of Nations.

In Italy, with the March on Rome, Fascism obtains power and Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister
Red Army occupies Vladivostok

November 5 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
November 12 - Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated was founded on November 12, 1922, by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group became an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter was granted to Alpha chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
November 14 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom. 2LO became the first radio station in the United Kingdom.
November 15 - In the United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority.

(The 1922 Committee, popularly believed to take its name from this occasion, was not founded until the following year.)

November 17 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in Italy.
November 18 - Marcel Proust, author of In Search of Lost Time, dies.
November 19 - Abdul Mejid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire is elected Caliph.
November 21 - Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.
November 24 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
November 26 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
Invention of Vegemite by Australian Fred Walker
Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish Independence Committee, founded
Molly Pitcher Club formed to promote the repeal of prohibition in United States
Thompson Webb founds Webb School for Boys.
Extinction of the Barbary Lion in the wild, with the last killed in Morocco, in the area of Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests
The Amur Tiger became extinct in South Korea by this date