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List of events
Events from the year 1922 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie ice cream bar.
January 28 – Snowfall from the Knickerbocker storm , the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C. , causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.
February – The Ring
February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved.
February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest
February 7 – Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between United States, Britain , Italy , Japan and France
February 10 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House .
February 24 – Leser v. Garnett Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , allowing women the right to vote , is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States .
March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier , having been converted at Norfolk Naval Shipyard from fleet collier Jupiter . On October 17 , Lt. Virgil C. Griffin pilots the first plane — a Vought VE-7 — launched from her decks.
May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated
October 3 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia becomes the first female United States Senator , when the governor of Georgia gives her a temporary appointment, pending the election of a replacement for Senator Thomas Watson, who has died suddenly. She will not take office till November 21, and will thus serve for only one day.
November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by 7 educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1
January 17 – Betty White , actress, comedian and writer, pioneer television entertainer
January 22 – Howard Moss , poet, playwright and critic (d. 1987 )
January 24 – Bob Hoover , World War II air ace and test pilot (d. 2016 )
February 6
February 10 – Harold Hughes , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1969 to 1975 (d. 1996 )
February 12 – Elisabeth Carron , operatic soprano (d. 2016 )
February 17 – Tommy Edwards , singer-songwriter (d. 1969 )
February 18
March 12 – Jack Kerouac , novelist and poet (d. 1969 )
March 20 – Carl Reiner , comedian, actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2020 )
March 23 – Marty Allen , comedian and television actor (d. 2018 )
April 3 – Doris Day , actress, singer and animal rights activist (d. 2019 )
April 16 – Pat Peppler , American football player and coach (d. 2015 )
April 19 – Billy Joe Patton , amateur golfer (d. 2011 )
May 11
June 1
June 9 – George Axelrod , scriptwriter (d. 2003 )
June 10
June 23 – Morris R. Jeppson , physicist (died 2010 )
June 24 – Jack Carter , comedian (d. 2015 )
June 25 – Alex Garbowski , baseball player (died 2008 )
June 27 – George Walker , African American classical composer (died 2018 )
June 29 – John William Vessey Jr. , American military officer (died 2016 )
July 15 – Leon M. Lederman , experimental physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 (d. 2018 )
July 19
July 25 – John B. Goodenough , German-American solid-state physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019
August 2 – Paul Laxalt , U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1974 to 1987 (died 2018 )
September 2 – Arthur Ashkin , physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018
October 23 – Coleen Gray , actress[ 6]
October 30 – Marie Van Brittan Brown , inventor (d. 1999 )
December 24 – Ava Gardner , actress (d. 1990 )
December 28 – Stan Lee , comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor and president and chairman of Marvel Comics (d. 2018 )[ 7]
Deaths
January 17 – George B. Selden , patent lawyer and inventor (b. 1846 )
January 21 – John Kendrick Bangs , fiction writer (b. 1862 )
January 27 – Nellie Bly , journalist (b. 1864 )
March 4 – Bert Williams , entertainer (b. 1874 )
March 6 – Webb C. Ball , jeweler and watchmaker from Fredericktown, Ohio (born 1848 )
March 10 – Harry Kellar , magician (b. 1849 )
April 14 – Cap Anson , baseball player (b. 1852 )
May 12 – John Martin Poyer , U.S. Navy Commander, 12th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1861 )
June 6
June 22 – Newton C. Blanchard , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1894 to 1897 (b. 1849 )
August 1 – Francis S. White , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1914 to 1915 (b. 1847 )
August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell , inventor of telephone
August 5 – Tommy McCarthy , baseball player (b. 1863 )
August 23 – Albert J. Hopkins , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1903 to 1909 (b. 1846 )
September 5 – Sarah Winchester , builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b. 1837 )
September 7 – William Stewart Halsted , surgeon (b. 1852 )
September 26 – Thomas E. Watson , Populist politician (b. 1856 )
October 27 – Rita Fornia , opera singer (born 1878 )
November 3 – Alva Adams , 3-time Governor of Colorado (born 1850 )
November 6 – Morgan Bulkeley , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1905 to 1911 (b. 1837 )
November 7 – Sam Thompson , baseball player (b. 1860 )
November 14 – Godfrey Chevalier , naval aviation pioneer (b. 1889 )
December 12 – John Wanamaker , businessman (b. 1838 )
See also
References
External links
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