1922 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1919 1920 1921 – 1922 – 1923 1924 1925

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Books
Movies released
Images for kids

Events

February 28 – Egypt becomes an independent country.
Most of Ireland stopped being part of the United Kingdom.
Collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Tomb of Tutankhamun discovered by Howard Carter
Archibald Hill, English mathematician, and Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Declaration of the foundation of the Soviet Union.

Births

February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, American publisher (d. 2012)
March 1 – Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1995)
March 12 – Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
March 17 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali founder (d. 1975)
March 28 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
April 3 – Doris Day, actress (d. 2019)
April 15 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (d. 2013)
April 16 – Kingsley Amis, English writer (d. 1955)
June 10 – Judy Garland, American actress (d. 1969)
June 16 – Wayne Mixson, American politician
July 14 – Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (d. 1970)
August 24 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
September 9 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian entomologist
November 23 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician
Rafael Ishkhanyan, Armenian historian (d. 1996)

Deaths

January 22 - Pope Benedict XV

Books

Ulysses by James Joyce

Movies released

Nanook of the North

Images for kids

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