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List of events
Events from the year 1922 in the United States .
Incumbents
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
May 30:
Lincoln Memorial dedicated
July–September
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.
[6]
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
George McGovern
January 1
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 )
[13]
January 19
January 20
January 21 –
Sam Mele , baseball player and manager (d.
2017 )
January 22
January 24
January 26 –
Bob Thomas , Hollywood biographer and reporter (d.
2014 )
January 28 –
Robert W. Holley , biochemist and Nobel laureate (d.
1993 )
[15]
January 30
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
February 6
February 9 –
Kathryn Grayson , American actress (d.
2010 )
[16]
February 10 –
Harold Hughes , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1969 to 1975 (d.
1996 )
February 12
February 13
February 15 –
John B. Anderson , Congressman and presidential candidate (d.
2017 )
[17]
February 17
February 18
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
March 1 –
William Gaines , magazine publisher (MAD ) (d.
1992 )
March 2 –
Arnold Hano , editor and non-fiction writer (d.
2021 )
March 4
March 7 –
Andy Phillip , American basketball player and coach (d.
2001 )
March 8
March 9
March 12
March 14 –
Arch Johnson , actor (d.
1997 )
March 17 –
Patrick Suppes , philosopher (d.
2014 )
March 18 –
Fred Shuttlesworth , civil rights leader (d.
2011 )
[23]
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
March 29 –
March Fong Eu , politician (d.
2017 )
March 31
April 1 –
William Manchester , writer (d.
2004 )
[26]
April 3 –
Doris Day , actress, singer and animal rights activist (d.
2019 )
April 4
April 7 –
Margia Dean , actress (d.
2023 )
April 9 –
Johnny Thomson , racing driver (d.
1960 )
April 16 –
Pat Peppler , American football player and coach (d.
2015 )
April 19
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 )
[30]
May 7
May 10 –
Nancy Walker , actress, singer and director (d.
1992 )
May 11
May 12
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
June 2 –
Charlie Sifford , golfer (d.
2015 )
June 9 –
George Axelrod , scriptwriter (d.
2003 )
June 10
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 3 –
Howie Schultz , baseball and basketball player (d.
2009 )
July 4
July 6
July 7 –
James D. Hughes , US Air Force lieutenant general (d.
2024 )
July 9 –
Jim Pollard , basketball player and coach (d.
1993 )
July 10
July 11
July 12 –
Mark Hatfield , politician and educator (d.
2011 )
July 13
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 )
[34]
July 19
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 )
[35]
July 25 –
John B. Goodenough , German-American solid-state physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 (d.
2023 )
July 26
July 27 –
Norman Lear , television writer and producer (d.
2023 )
July 31
August 1 –
Paul Lambert , actor (d.
1997 )
August 2
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 (d.
2024 )
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 )
[36]
August 25 –
Gloria Dea , actress and magician (d.
2023 )
[37]
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
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
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
October 1 –
Burke Marshall , lawyer and politician (d.
2003 )
October 7 –
Martha Stewart , actress and singer (d.
2021 )
[38]
October 9 –
Fyvush Finkel , comedian (d.
2016 )
October 10 –
Wilhelmina Holladay , art collector and patron (d.
2021 )
[39]
October 13 –
Nathaniel Clifton , basketball and baseball player (d.
1990 )
October 15 –
Tommy Edwards , singer-songwriter (d.
1969 )
October 16 –
George R. Price , population geneticist (d.
1975 )
October 19 –
Jack Anderson , journalist (d.
2005 )
October 20 –
John Anderson , actor (d.
1992 )
October 23 –
Coleen Gray , actress (d.
2015 )
[40]
October 26
October 27
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 9 –
Dorothy Dandridge , actress and singer (d.
1965 )
November 11 –
Kurt Vonnegut , writer (d.
2007 )
November 15 –
David Sidney Feingold , biochemist (d.
2019 )
November 16
November 23 –
Donald Tennant , advertising agency executive (d.
2001 )
November 27 –
Jacqueline White , actress
December 2
December 5
December 6 –
Benjamin A. Gilman , politician (d.
2016 )
December 8
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
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 )
[43]
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
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 )
[44]
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 )
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