What Happened In July 1922 In History

Historical Events for July, 1922

• 1st » The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
• 11th » The Hollywood Bowl opens.
• 15th » Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
• 20th » The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
• 24th » The draft of the Mandatory Palestine called British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the League of Nations Council or Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.

Famous Birthdays on July in 1922

• 1st » Toshi Seeger, German-American activist, co-founded the Clearwater Festival (d. 2013)
• 2nd » Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer
• 3rd » Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 2010)
• 5th » Bob Duffy (basketball, born 1922) e.g Bob Duffy, American basketball player
• 6th » William Schallert, American actor and singer
• 7th » Alan Armer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 10th » Jean Kerr, American author and playwright (d. 2003)
• 10th » Herb McKenley, Jamaican sprinter (d. 2007)
• 11th » Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
• 12th » Mark Hatfield, American soldier and politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (d. 2011)
• 13th » Leslie Brooks, American actress and singer (d. 2011)
• 13th » Louis R. Harlan, American historian and academic (d. 2010)
• 13th » Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark
• 13th » Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
• 14th » Robert Creamer, American journalist (d. 2012)
• 14th » Robin Olds, American general and pilot (d. 2007)
• 14th » Elfriede Rinkel, German SS officer
• 15th » Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate
• 18th » Thomas Kuhn, American physicist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1996)
• 19th » George McGovern, American lieutenant, historian, and politician (d. 2012)
• 20th » Alan Stephenson Boyd, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
• 21st » Kay Starr, American singer and actress
• 21st » Mollie Sugden, English actress (d. 2009)
• 22nd » Alan Stephenson Boyd, American businessman and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
• 22nd » Dick Hoerner, American football player (d. 2010)
• 23rd » Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 24th » Madeleine Ferron, Canadian author (d. 2010)
• 26th » Blake Edwards, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 26th » Jim Foglesong, American record producer (d. 2013)
• 26th » Jason Robards, American actor and singer (d. 2000)
• 27th » Adolfo Celi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1986)
• 27th » Norman Lear, American screenwriter and producer
• 28th » Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss oceanographer and engineer (d. 2008)
• 30th » Henry W. Bloch, American banker and businessman, co-founded H&R Block
• 31st » Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)

Famous Deaths for July 1922

• 4th » Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1894)
• 6th » Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and missionary (b. 1863)
• 7th » Cathal Brugha, Irish soldier and politician, 1st President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1874)
• 13th » Martin Dies, Sr., American politician (b. 1870)
• 20th » Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1856)
• 22nd » Jokichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist (b. 1854)
• 24th » Saint George Ashe, Maltese-English rower (b. 1871)

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