Mama's Birth Year

What News Events Happened in 1922

* The Wrigley Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States is completed

* The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created USSR

* King George V Opens new concrete tennis stadium at Wimbledon

* Nineteenth Amendment To The Constitution Passed on February 27th giving the right of women to vote

* The Tomb of Tutankhamen is discovered on November 4th in the valley of the kings in Egypt

* British Authorities sentence Gandhi in India to Prison

* Lincoln Memorial is dedicated by Former US President William Howard Taft

* The British Broadcasting Company ( BBC ) is formed and financed by a Post Office licence fee of 10 shillings, payable by anyone owning a radio receiver

* Mussolini and the Fascist party come to power in Italy

* Under new additional Prohibition Laws home brewing is illegal

* Fifty thousand people affected During Lower Louisiana Floods causing concerns over starvation

* Egypt under King Fuad Declares Independence in 1922

* The Reader’s Digest Magazine is launched

* Ralph Samuelson ( Minnesota )is the first person to Ski on Water and the sport of Waterskiing is born

* The Irish Free State Is Created


Health 1922

* First successful insulin treatment of diabetes in Canada in 1922

Technology

* By 1922 over 500 commercial radio stations are in operation in the United States

* The first public radio broadcasts in Britain and France

* The first US Aircraft Carrier The "USS Langley" Commissioned

* The Austin Seven produced by the Austin Motor Company Popularizes Motoring in England

For reference or to look up your birth year, please visit: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1922.html