1922 In The United States

Events from the year 1922 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

* President: Warren G. Harding ( R-Ohio)
* Vice President: Calvin Coolidge ( R-Massachusetts)
* Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett ( R-Massachusetts)
* Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge ( R-Massachusetts)
* Congress: 67th

Events

January–March

* 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'' boxing magazine is first published.
* 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'': 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.
* 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.

April–June

*April 1 - The Illinois General Assembly creates the Illinois State Police.
* April 7 – Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
* April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
* April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.
* May 5 – In the Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
* May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
* May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia.
* May 30 – In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
* June 11 – Première of Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film.
* June 14 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.

July–September

* July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl open-air music venue opens.
*July 25 – The United States recognizes Albania as a country.
*July 28 – The United States recognizes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as countries.
* July 30 – Radio station WMT (AM) begins broadcasting as WJAM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
* August – The California grizzly bear is hunted to extinction.

October–December

* 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.
* October 5 – Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing is founded by six nursing students at the Indiana Training School for Nurses (Now Indiana University School of Nursing) in Indianapolis, Indiana.
* 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

* The Molly Pitcher Club is formed as a women's organization to promote the repeal of Prohibition in the U.S. by M. Louise Gross in New York.
* James O. McKinsey publishes ''Budgetary Control''.
* Judy Company, a geotechnical engineering firm is founded in Kansas City, Kansas.
* Thompson Webb founds the Webb School of California for boys in Claremont.
* Earliest known example of gospel song "This Train (is Bound for Glory)", a recording by Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette, under the title "Dis Train".

Ongoing

* Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
* U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
* Prohibition (1920–1933)
* Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

Births

* January 1
**Ernest Hollings, U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005 (d. 2019)
** Roz Howard, race car driver (d. 2013)
* January 3 – John R. Schmidhauser, politician (d. 2018)
* January 5 – Helen Smith, female baseball player (d. 2019)
* January 13 – Bud Anderson, fighter pilot
* January 17 – Betty White, actress, comedian and producer (d. 2021)
* January 19
** Lila Cockrell, former Mayor of San Antonio (d. 2019)
** Guy Madison, actor (d. 1996)
* January 20
** Ray Anthony, trumpet player, composer, bandleader and actor
** Ed Westcott, photographer (d. 2019)
* January 21 – Sam Mele, baseball player and manager (d. 2017)
** Telly Savalas, Actor and Singer (d. 1994)
* January 22
** Annabelle Lee, female professional baseball player (d. 2008)
** Howard Moss, poet, playwright and critic (d. 1987)
* January 24
** Bob Hoover, World War II air ace and test pilot (d. 2016)
** Charles Socarides, psychiatrist (d. 2005)
* January 26 – Bob Thomas, Hollywood biographer and reporter (d. 2014)
* January 28 – Robert W. Holley, biochemist and Nobel laureate (d. 1993)
* January 30
** Rosemary Kuhlmann, soprano and actress (d. 2019)
** Dick Martin, comedian (d. 2008)
* January 31 – Joanne Dru, actress (d. 1996)
* February 2 – James L. Usry, first African-American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2002)
* February 4
** Bernard Kalb, journalist (d. 2023)
** William Edward Phipps, actor and producer (d. 2018)
* February 6
** Leon Bibb, American-Canadian singer (d. 2015)
** Jocelyn Burdick, U.S. Senator from North Dakota in 1992 (d. 2019)
* February 9 – Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d. 2010)
* February 10 – Harold Hughes, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1969 to 1975 (d. 1996)
* February 12 – Elisabeth Carron, operatic soprano (d. 2016)
* February 13
** David O. Moberg, sociologist
** Hal Moore, Lieutenant general, non-fiction writer (d. 2017)
** Gordon Tullock, economist (d. 2014)
* February 15 – John B. Anderson, Congressman and presidential candidate (d. 2017)
* February 17
** Enrico Banducci, nightclub owner (d. 2007)
** Tommy Edwards, singer-songwriter (d. 1969)
* February 18
**Helen Gurley Brown, editor and publisher (d. 2012)
** Joe Tipton, baseball player (d. 1994)
**Connie Wisniewski, baseball player (d. 1995)
* February 19 – Margherita Marchione, Roman Catholic sister, writer, teacher and apologist (d. 2021)
* February 23 – James L. Holloway III, naval officer (d. 2019)
* February 24
** Ruth Godfrey, film actress (d. 1985)
** Steven Hill, actor (d. 2016)
* March 1 – William Gaines, magazine publisher (''MAD'') (d. 1992)
* March 2 – Arnold Hano, editor and non-fiction writer (d. 2021)
* March 4
** Richard E. Cunha, cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
** Martha O'Driscoll, film actress (d. 1998)
* March 7 – Andy Phillip, American basketball player and coach (d. 2001)
* March 8
** Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor (d. 2014)
** Cyd Charisse, American actress, dancer (d. 2008)
* March 9
** Herb Douglas, athlete
** Floyd McKissick, lawyer and civil rights activist (d. 1991)
* March 12
** Jack Kerouac, novelist and poet (d. 1969)
** Lane Kirkland, union leader (d. 1999)
* March 14 – Arch Johnson, actor (d. 1997)
* March 17 – Patrick Suppes, philosopher (d. 2014)
* March 18 – Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights leader (d. 2011)
* March 20 – Carl Reiner, comedian, actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2020)
* March 22 – Alex Xydias, racing driver
* March 23 – Marty Allen, comedian and television actor (d. 2018)
* March 26 – William Milliken, American politician (d. 2019)
* March 27
** Murray Olderman, sports cartoonist and writer (d. 2020)
** Josephine Kabick, baseball player (AAGPBL) (d. 1978)
* March 29 – March Fong Eu, politician (d. 2017)
* March 31
** Richard Kiley, actor and singer (d. 1999)
** Art Shay, photographer and writer (d. 2018)
* April 1 – William Manchester, writer (d. 2004)
* April 3 – Doris Day, actress, singer and animal rights activist (d. 2019)
* April 4
** Irwin Belk, businessman and politician (d. 2018)
** Elmer Bernstein, composer (d. 2004)
* April 7 – Margia Dean, actress
* April 9 – Johnny Thomson, racing driver (d. 1960)
* April 16 – Pat Peppler, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
* April 19
** William M. Ellinghaus, business executive (d. 2022)
** Rose Marie McCoy, African-American songwriter (d. 2015)
** Billy Joe Patton, amateur golfer (d. 2011)
* April 23 – Marjorie Cameron, writer, painter, actress and occultist (d. 1995)
* April 27 – Jack Klugman, actor (d. 2012)
* April 28 – William Broomfield, politician (d. 2019)
* May 3 – Robert De Niro Sr., painter (d. 1993)
* May 4 – Eugenie Clark, marine biologist (d. 2015)
* May 7
** Darren McGavin, actor (d. 2006)
** Joe O'Donnell, documentary photographer and photojournalist (d. 2007)
* May 10 – Nancy Walker, actress, singer and director (d. 1992)
* May 11
**Nestor Chylak, baseball player and umpire (d. 1982)
**Thelma Eisen, baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
* May 12
** Paul Milstein)
** Wilburn K. Ross, WWII veteran (d. 2017)
** Murray Gershenz, character actor, entrepreneur (d. 2013)
* May 18 – Bill Macy, actor ('' Maude'') (d. 2019)
* May 21 – James Lopez Watson, judge (d. 2001)
* May 26 – Troy Smith, businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In (d. 2009)
* May 28 – Lou Duva, boxing trainer (d. 2017)
* May 29 – Eleanor Coerr, writer (d. 2010)
* May 30 – Hal Clement, writer (d. 2003)
* June 1
** Joan Caulfield, actress (d. 1991)
** Joan Copeland, actress (d. 2022)
* June 2 – Charlie Sifford, golfer (d. 2015)
* June 9 – George Axelrod, scriptwriter (d. 2003)
* June 10
** Robert Alan Aurthur, screenwriter (d. 1978)
** Judy Garland, singer and movie actress (d. 1969 in the United Kingdom)
* June 13 – Edward Shames, army officer (d. 2021)
* June 16 – Wayne Mixson, politician (d. 2020)
* June 23 – Morris R. Jeppson, physicist (d. 2010)
* June 24 – Jack Carter, comedian (d. 2015)
* June 25 – Alex Garbowski, baseball player (d. 2008)
* June 27 – George Walker, African American classical composer (d. 2018)
* June 29 – John William Vessey Jr., military officer (d. 2016)
* July 1 – Warren Winkelstein, epidemiologist (d. 2012)
* July 2 – Howard Wesley Johnson, educator (d. 2009)
* July 4
** Charles Csuri, artist (d. 2022)
** R. James Harvey, politician and jurist (d. 2019)
* July 6
** William Schallert, character actor (d. 2016)
** Toni Seven, cover girl and actress (d. 1991)
* July 7 – James D. Hughes, US Air Force lieutenant general
* July 9 – Jim Pollard, basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
* July 10
** Jack Arthurs, politician (d. 2020)
** Jake LaMotta, boxer (d. 2017)
* July 11
** John J. Maurer, politician and airline pilot (d. 2019)
** Jerald terHorst, journalist, White House press secretary (d. 2010)
* July 12 – Mark Hatfield, politician and educator (d. 2011)
* July 13
** Bernie Agrons, politician (d. 2015)
** Leslie Brooks, actress (d. 2011)
** Fred Fiedler, psychologist (d. 2017)
** Louis R. Harlan, academic historian (d. 2010)
** Fran Hopper, comic book artist (d. 2017)
* July 14 – Robin Olds, fighter pilot (d. 2007)
* July 15 – Leon M. Lederman, experimental physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 (d. 2018)
* July 16 – Samuel Conti, politician (d. 2018)
* July 17 – Jane Cronin Scanlon, mathematician (d. 2018)
* July 18 – Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science (d. 1996)
* July 19
** Al Haig, jazz pianist, best known as a pioneer of bebop (d. 1982)
** George McGovern, U.S. Senator from South Dakota from 1963 to 1981 and Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election (d. 2012)
** Rachel Robinson, nurse and teacher
* July 20 – Alan S. Boyd, attorney and 1st United States Secretary of Transportation (d. 2020)
* July 24 – Dean Caswell, World War II flying ace (d. 2022)
* July 25 – John B. Goodenough, German-American solid-state physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019
* July 26
** Anna Berger, actress (d. 2014)
** Blake Edwards, film director (d. 2010)
** Jason Robards, actor (d. 2000)
** Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball pitcher (d. 2002)
* July 27 – Norman Lear, television writer and producer
* July 31
** Hank Bauer, baseball right fielder and manager (d. 2007)
** Bill Kaysing, conspiracy theorist (d. 2005)
** Mildred T. Stahlman, neonatologist and academic
* August 2
** Betsy Bloomingdale, socialite and philanthropist (d. 2016)
** Paul Laxalt, U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1974 to 1987 (d. 2018)
* August 3 – Robert Sumner, evangelist (d. 2016)
* August 4 – Charles Winick, anthropologist, sociologist and author (d. 2015)
* August 5 – Sandy Kenyon, actor (d. 2010)
* August 15 – Peter Berkos, sound editor
* August 17 – Frederick B. Dent, businessman and politician (d. 2019)
* August 21 – Mel Fisher, treasure hunter, founder of the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum (d. 1998)
* August 23 – George Kell, baseball player (d. 2009)
* August 24 – Howard Zinn, social activist and historian (d. 2010)
* August 29 – Arthur Anderson, American actor of radio, film, television, and stage (d. 2016)
* September 2 – Arthur Ashkin, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018
* September 9
** Bernard Bailyn, historian and author (d. 2020)
** Hoyt Curtin, composer and music producer (d. 2000)
* September 11 – Charles Evers, politician and civil rights activist (d. 2020)
* September 12 – Jackson Mac Low, poet (d. 2004)
* September 13 – Tony Sumpter, American football player (d. 2017)
* September 15
** Jackie Cooper, actor and director (d. 2011)
** Phyllis Koehn, professional baseball player (d. 2007)
* September 17 – Vance Bourjaily, writer, novelist, playwright, journalist, and essayist (d. 2010)
* September 18 – John S. Foster Jr., physicist
* September 22 – Rosa Speer, gospel singer (d. 2017)
* September 23 – Louise Latham, actress (d. 2018)
* September 24
** Meche Barba, American-Mexican film actress and dancer (d. 2000)
** Bert I. Gordon, film director
** Floyd Levin, American-born musicologist (d. 2007)
* October 1 – Burke Marshall, lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
* October 6 – George R. Price, population geneticist (d. 1975)
* October 7 – Martha Stewart, actress and singer (d. 2021)
* October 9 – Fyvush Finkel, comedian (d. 2016)
* October 10 – Wilhelmina Holladay, art collector and patron (d. 2021)
* October 13 – Nathaniel Clifton, basketball and baseball player (d. 1990)
* October 15 – Tommy Edwards, singer-songwriter (d. 1969)
* October 19 – Jack Anderson, journalist (d. 2005)
* October 20 – John Anderson, actor (d. 1992)
* October 23 – Coleen Gray, actress (d. 2015)
* October 26 – Madelyn Dunham, maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (d. 2008)
* October 27
** Ruby Dee, actress, poet, activist, journalist and second wife of Ossie Davis (d. 2014)
** Ralph Kiner, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2014)
** Del Rice, baseball player, coach and manager (d. 1983)
* October 28 – Butch van Breda Kolff, basketball coach (d. 2007)
* October 30 – Marie Van Brittan Brown, inventor (d. 1999)
* November 3 – Townsend Cromwell, oceanographer (d. 1958)
* November 4 – Eddie Basinski, baseball player (d. 2022)
* November 5 – Yitzchok Scheiner, American-born rabbi (d. 2021)
* November 6 – Vivian Kellogg, baseball player (d. 2013)
* November 15 – David Sidney Feingold, biochemist (d. 2019)
* November 16
** Royal Dano, actor (d. 1994)
** Patricia Barry, actress (d. 2016)
** Sidney Mintz, anthropologist (d. 2015)
* November 23 – Donald Tennant, advertising agency executive (d. 2001)
* November 27 – Jacqueline White, actress
* December 2
** Charles Diggs, politician (d. 1998)
** Leo Gordon, actor (d. 2000)
* December 5
** William Davidson, sports owner (d. 2009)
** Don Robertson, songwriter and pianist (d. 2015)
* December 6 – Benjamin A. Gilman, politician (d. 2016)
* December 8
** Jean Porter, actress (d. 2018)
** Sol Yaged, jazz clarinetist (d. 2019)
* December 11 – Noah Hutchings, president of Southwest Radio Ministries (d. 2015)
* December 12 – Edythe Perlick, baseball player (d. 2003)
* December 16 – B. G. Hendrix, politician (d. 2020)
* December 17 – Alan Voorhees, engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
* December 18 – Jack Brooks, politician (d. 2012)
* December 20
** Charita Bauer, actress, soap opera star (d. 1985)
** Beverly Pepper, sculptor and painter (d. 2020)
** Tony Vaccaro, photographer (d. 2022)
* December 24 – Ava Gardner, actress (d. 1990)
* December 26 – Chuck Cecil, radio broadcaster (d. 2019)
* December 27 – Miller Anderson, diver (d. 1965)
* December 28 – Stan Lee, comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor and president and chairman of Marvel Comics (d. 2018)

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)
* April 29 – Susan Hammond Barney, American social activist and evangelist (b. 1834)
* May 12 – John Martin Poyer, U.S. Navy Commander, 12th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1861)
* June 6
** Richard A. Ballinger, politician (b. 1858)
** Lillian Russell, singer and actress (b. 1861)
* 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 14 – Rebecca Cole, physician and social reformer (b. 1846)
* 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

* List of American films of 1922
* Timeline of United States history (1900–1929)

References

External links

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