1922 in the United States
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.
October 5 – Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society is founded by six nursing students at the Indiana Training School for Nurses (Now Indiana University School of Nursing) in Indianapolis, Indiana.[ 6]
November 7 – William W. Brandon is elected the 37th governor of Alabama defeating Oliver D. Street .
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 (d. 2024 )
January 17 – Betty White , actress, comedian and producer (d. 2021 )[ 12]
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 )[ 14]
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 )[ 15]
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 )[ 16]
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 )[ 22]
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 )[ 25]
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 )[ 29]
May 7
May 10 – Nancy Walker , actress, singer and director (d. 1992 )
May 11
May 12
May 18 – Bill Macy , actor (Maude 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 )[ 33]
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 )[ 34]
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 )[ 35]
August 25 – Gloria Dea , actress and magician (d. 2023 )[ 36]
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 (d. 2020 )
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 )[ 37]
October 9 – Fyvush Finkel , comedian (d. 2016 )
October 10 – Wilhelmina Holladay , art collector and patron (d. 2021 )[ 38]
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 )[ 39]
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
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 )[ 42]
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 )[ 43]
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
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