What Happened In June 1922 In History

Historical Events for June, 1922

• 1st » The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
• 16th » General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty History of Sinn Féin e.g Sinn Féin win a large majority.
• 22nd » Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
• 28th » The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Irish Free State named Free State forces.
• 29th » France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
• 30th » In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924) named United States occupation

Famous Birthdays on June in 1922

• 1st » Joan Caulfield, American actress and model (d. 1991)
• 1st » Joan Copeland, American actress
• 1st » Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2007)
• 2nd » Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 2nd » Charlie Sifford, American golfer
• 2nd » Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (d. 2002)
• 3rd » Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 5th » Paul Couvret, Dutch-Australian pilot and politician (d. 2013)
• 5th » Sheila Sim, English actress
• 7th » Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player
• 9th » George Axelrod, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 9th » John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Chinese-American pilot and poet (d. 1941)
• 9th » Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and educator (d. 1988)
• 10th » Judy Garland, American actress and singer (d. 1969)
• 10th » Bill Kerr, South African-Australian actor (d. 2014)
• 11th » Jean Sutherland Boggs, Peruvian-Canadian historian, academic, and civil servant
• 11th » John Bromfield, American actor (d. 2005)
• 11th » Michael Cacoyannis, Cypriot director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
• 11th » Douglas Campbell (actor) called Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor (d. 2009)
• 12th » Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (d. 2013)
• 13th » Etienne Leroux, South African author (d. 1989)
• 14th » Kevin Roche, Irish-American architect, designed Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta) or Bank of America Plaza and the Central Park Zoo
• 14th » K. Asif, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1971)
• 14th » Harvey Littleton, American glass artist and educator (d. 2013)
• 15th » Jaki Byard, American pianist and composer (d. 1999)
• 15th » Ronald King Murray, Lord Murray, Scottish judge and politician
• 15th » John Veale, English composer (d. 2006)
• 16th » Ilmar Kullam, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
• 17th » John Amis, English journalist and critic (d. 2013)
• 18th » Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
• 19th » Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 19th » Fritz Schollmeyer, German footballer and manager
• 21st » Heino Lipp, Estonian decathlete, shot putter and discus thrower (d. 2006)
• 22nd » Bill Blass (designer) or Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (d. 2002)
• 22nd » Mona Lisa (actress) e.g Mona Lisa, Filipino actress
• 23rd » Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant and physicist (d. 2010)
• 23rd » Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1998)
• 24th » Jack Dunnett, English politician
• 24th » Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1988)
• 24th » John Postgate (microbiologist) e.g John Postgate, English microbiologist and academic
• 25th » Johnny Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2013)
• 26th » Walter Farley, American author (d. 1989)
• 26th » Eleanor Parker, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 26th » Alan T. Peacock, English economist and academic
• 26th » Dick Smith (make-up artist) known as Dick Smith, American make-up artist (d. 2014)
• 28th » Lloyd La Beach, Panamanian sprinter (d. 1999)
• 28th » Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
• 29th » Vasko Popa, Serbian poet (d. 1991)
• 29th » John William Vessey, Jr., American general

Famous Deaths for June 1922

• 4th » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)
• 6th » Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (b. 1860)
• 18th » Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 19th » Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Makuuchi Yokozuna or Yokozuna (b. 1874)
• 24th » Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, Foreign Minister of Germany (b. 1867)
• 25th » Satyendranath Dutta, Indian poet (b. 1882)
• 26th » Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
• 28th » Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1885)

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