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Month of 1922
February 6, 1922: Washington Disarmament Conference treaties signed by world's superpowers
February 6, 1922: Archbishop Achille Ratti of Milan elected as Pope Pius XI
February 21, 1922: Worst U.S. aviation disaster up to that time kills 34 passengers and crew on the dirigible
Roma
after it crashes into power lines and explodes in Virginia
The following events occurred in
February 1922
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February 1, 1922 (Wednesday)
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Murder victim Taylor
- Died:
- William Desmond Taylor
, 49, Irish-born American film director and actor, was shot in the back at his home in the affluent
Westlake
neighborhood of
Los Angeles
. His body was found the next day in his bungalow at the Alvarado Court Apartments, and initially declared to be a hemorrhage; the wound was not discovered until after the body was removed from his home.
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The murder was never solved, and the prime suspect, Taylor's former personal assistant
Edward F. Sands
, was never seen after Taylor's death.
- General
Yamagata Aritomo
, 83, Japanese statesman and chief adviser to the Emperor since 1909. Yamagata had been
Prime Minister of Japan
from 1889 to 1891 and from 1898 to 1900.
February 2, 1922 (Thursday)
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- The first complete printing of the controversial and groundbreaking
modernist novel
Ulysses
, by Irish writer
James Joyce
, appeared in a bookshop window, printed by the French publisher Darantiere at the initiative of American bookseller and Paris resident
Sylvia Beach
.
[7]
The February 2 date was timed for Joyce's 40th birthday.
[8]
- The
Checker Cab Manufacturing Company
was founded in
Kalamazoo, Michigan
by 28-year-old Russian immigrant
Morris Markin
through an acquisition by his own Markin Automobile Company of
Commonwealth Motor Company
.
[9]
For the next 60 years, Markin's company was the supplier for the
Checker Cab
service and, beginning in 1929, the
Yellow Cab Company
, the two largest
taxi
services.
- The
papal conclave
, to elect a successor to the late Pope Benedict XV, began in Rome as 53 of the 60 Roman Catholic cardinals assembled at the Sistine Chapel.
[10]
- The Soviet newspaper
Pravda
published the results of a survey among its readers, who opposed the decision by
Vladimir Lenin
to attend an economic conference in
Genoa
in April. According to the poll, it was generally feared that Lenin was putting himself at risk for an assassination attempt.
[11]
- A methane explosion killed 24 coal miners employed by the H. C. Frick Coke Company near
Brownsville, Pennsylvania
.
[12]
- An officer of the
Royal Irish Constabulary
was killed in a clash between the RIC and the
Irish Republican Army
in
Killarney
as a wave of violence began in Ireland.
[13]
- The Jewish communist youth organization
Komtsukunft
was founded in Poland.
- Born:
February 3, 1922 (Friday)
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February 4, 1922 (Saturday)
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- A mob in British India killed 22 policemen
by setting fire to the police station in the town of
Chauri Chaura
and then trapping the men inside. The mob attack came after the police had fired on a crowd of peaceful protesters, killing three civilians. The town, located in the
United Provinces
(Agra and Oudh) is now in the Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh
.
[17]
- The
Ford Motor Company
announced its purchase of the financially-ailing
Lincoln Motor Company
in "the most dramatic
receiver's sale
in the history of
Detroit
",
[18]
as the mass producer of affordable automobiles creates a luxury car division and ends federal bankruptcy court proceedings commenced by Lincoln Motor president
Henry M. Leland
. According to
The New York Times
, the eight million dollar acquisition was made at the insistence of
Henry Ford
's wife,
Clara Bryant Ford
because of her sympathy and friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Leland.
- At the
Conference on the Limitation of Armament
, Japan agreed to withdraw troops from
Shandong
, restore German interests in
Qingdao
and give the
Jinan
railway back to China.
[5]
- Ford
bought the
Lincoln Motor Company
for $8 million.
[19]
- Biddle University
, a private university in
Charlotte, North Carolina
for African-American students, was officially renamed Johnson C. Smith University in honor of
the late husband
of the Biddle's largest benefactor, Jane Berry Smith.
[20]
February 5, 1922 (Sunday)
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- The first issue of
Reader's Digest
, dated February 1922, was published by husband-and-wife team
DeWitt Wallace
and
Lila Bell Wallace
with the objective of presenting humor and "condensed" versions of longer publications.
[21]
[22]
- The first round of voting was held
for the 15-member
Landtag of Liechtenstein
. In previous years, the ruling monarch, the Prince, was allowed to appoint three members and the other 12 were elected. The
Christlich-Soziale Volkspartei
won a majority (8 seats) before the runoff voting, and the ruling
Progressive Citizens' Party
(FBP) won only one. After the runoff on February 16 for three undecided seats, the CSVP had an 11 to 4 lead, but Prime Minister and FBP leader
Josef Ospelt
continued as Prime Minister.
- Born:
Lafran Pane
, Indonesian professor and founder of the
Muslim Students' Association
; in
Padangsidempuan
, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (d. 1991)
- Died:
Frances Bowes-Lyon
, 89, British noblewoman and grandmother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, fiancee of
Albert, Duke of York
, the future King George VI
February 6, 1922 (Monday)
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February 7, 1922 (Tuesday)
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February 8, 1922 (Wednesday)
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February 9, 1922 (Thursday)
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- The
World War Foreign Debts Commission Act
, also called the "Allied Debt Refunding Bill", was signed into law by U.S. President Warren G. Harding, providing for a Refunding Commission of five members to decide upon terms of collection back of American loans that had been made to the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Belgium. The five commissioners were to consist of three of President Harding's cabinet (probably Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover), one U.S. Senator and one U.S. Representative.
[42]
- Born:
February 10, 1922 (Friday)
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- The value of the Soviet Union's currency, the
rouble
, dropped further on private currency exchanges by almost 50 percent, falling from the official exchange rate of 280,000 roubles per U.S. dollar to "between 500,000 and 600,000 to the dollar." The value of the
Imperial Russian rouble
prior to World War One had been 1.94 roubles per U.S. dollar, or equivalent to 51½ cents per ruble.
[43]
The Soviet response was to issue the
"new rouble"
, worth 10,000 of the old Soviet roubles.
- The science of
polarography
was invented by Czechoslovakian chemist
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
with his successful test of a machine of his own design to analyze and measure electrochemical reactions.
[44]
- U.S. President Harding appeared in person at the United States Senate with the seven treaties signed at the disarmament conference and urged the Senate to take prompt action on ratifying them. In a speech on the Senate floor, Harding said "If we cannot join in making effective these covenants for peace, and stamp this conference with America's approval, we shall discredit the influence of the Republic, render future efforts futile and unlikely, and write discouragement where today the world is ready to acclaim new hope."
[45]
- Irish Republican Army
volunteers attacked an
Ulster Special Constabulary
patrol in
Clady, County Tyrone
. One constable was shot dead.
[13]
[46]
- The
National Union of Students
(NUS), an organization of student governments from universities across the United Kingdom, was founded in London.
[47]
- Born:
- Died:
February 11, 1922 (Saturday)
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- The
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
(AT&T) announced its plan to create the first nationwide radio broadcasting network in the United States, installing additional telephone cables to its network to transmit its broadcasts to other cities when its
WEAF
radio station began broadcasting from New York City.
[48]
The
"WEAF Chain"
would begin with the linking of WEAF with the
Boston
radio station
WNAC
on January 4, 1923 and would have 17 affiliates by 1926 with its renaming as the Broadcasting Company of America (BCA) before selling the network to the largest radio manufacturer, the
Radio Corporation of America
after six weeks, which in turn would create the NBC Radio Network.
- Representatives of the United States and Japan signed a treaty defining American rights on the South Pacific island group of
Yap
, allowing the U.S. equal access to the use of cable and radio stations there and on other former German colonial islands mandated to Japan after World War I. U.S. Secretary of State Hughes and Baron Kij?r? Shidehara, Japan's Ambassador to the U.S., signed the agreement at the U.S. Department of State offices.
[49]
After World War II, the island was administered by the U.S. as part of the
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
and, since 1986, has been one of the constituent states of the
Federated States of Micronesia
nation.
- There was an armed confrontation in the Irish town of
Clones
between the
Irish Republican Army
(IRA) and the
Ulster Special Constabulary
(USC). A unit of armed Special Constables were traveling from one part of
Northern Ireland
to another by train, which stopped off at Clones in
Southern Ireland
. The
Provisional Government of Southern Ireland
was unaware British forces would be crossing its territory. The IRA called on the Special Constables to surrender for questioning, but one of them shot dead an IRA sergeant. This sparked a firefight in which four Special Constables were killed and several wounded. Five others were captured.
[50]
The incident threatened to spark off a major confrontation between North and South, and the British government temporarily suspended the withdrawal of British troops from the South.
[51]
February 12, 1922 (Sunday)
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February 13, 1922 (Monday)
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- The
Battle of Volochayevka
, one of the final engagements in the
Russian Civil War
, came to an end as Soviet Army General
Vasily Blyukher
led troops to recapture territory of the nominally-independent
Far Eastern Republic
from the retreating anti-Bolshevik
White Army
, led by Major General
Viktorin Molchanov
of the former Russian Imperial Army.
[56]
- Only two of the nine people on the fishing schooner
Caldwell H. Colt
survived after the boat was wrecked on a reef near the Tortugas Light off of the coast of Texas. Four of the men, who had sailed from
Pensacola, Florida
and then gotten caught in a gale, remained alive for a week before running out of food and water and were sighted by the liner
El Oriente
on February 20, but one of the four slipped into the water and drowned before the ship could reach the group, and another died shortly after being rescued.
[57]
- Joseph G. "Uncle Joe" Cannon
, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced that he would not be a candidate for re-election as Congressman for the 18th District of Illinois in 1922, bringing an end to almost 50 years in Congress. Cannon had first taken office in 1873 and had spent all but four years in the House, serving from 1873 to 1891, 1893 to 1913 and since 1915, and was 85 years old at the time of his announcement.
[58]
- Born:
Gordon Tullock
, American economist known for the development of
public choice theory
; in
Rockford, Illinois
(d. 2014)
February 14, 1922 (Tuesday)
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- The first commercial radio station in Britain,
2MT
, began regular broadcasting, consisting of 30 minutes on Tuesday evenings from 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm. "Two Emma Toc" transmitted its signal from the village of
Writtle
near
Chelmsford
,
Essex
in England on a frequency of 428 kHz.
[59]
- Greek soldiers retreating from
Smyrna
during the
Greco-Turkish War
in
Turkey
carried out a massacre of 60 Turkish residents of the village of Karatepe. According to witnesses, the victims sought refuge in the village
mosque
, which the soldiers set on fire. The people who escaped to temporary survival were shot.
[60]
[61]
- The Toronto radio station CFCA carried the first broadcast of a
National Hockey League
game, relaying the highlights of a match between the Toronto St. Pats and the Ottawa Senators.
[62]
- Died:
Heikki Ritavuori
, 41, Finland's Minister of the Interior in charge of law enforcement, was shot to death in his home by an assassin.
February 15, 1922 (Wednesday)
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- The
Permanent Court of International Justice
officially began operations in
The Hague
.
[63]
- German Chancellor
Joseph Wirth
survived a confidence vote, 220 to 185, in the 459-member German Reichstag, after most of the 83 members of the
Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
(USPD), who had opposed his policies, had abstained from voting.
[64]
Wirth had been attacked by both the left and right over his handling of the recent railway strike.
[65]
- Chittaranjan Das
, President-elect of the
Indian National Congress
, was sentenced to six months imprisonment after having been arrested in December on charges of being manager of an unlawful association.
[66]
- Edward, Prince of Wales
and Crown Prince of the United Kingdom, received an enthusiastic welcome in
Delhi
upon his arrival in
British India
.
[67]
- The
Satversme
, the first constitution of
Latvia
, was adopted by an elected 150-member
constitutional assembly
.
[68]
Latvia's independence would come to an end on August 5, 1940, with its annexation as the "Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic into the Soviet Union. On May 4, 1990, the Supreme Soviet of Latvia, the legislature for the Latvian SSR would vote to declare the Soviet occupation illegal and to re-establish the authority of the 1922 constitution.
[69]
- Born:
- Died:
- Richard Beddows
, 78, English-born U.S. soldier and
Medal of Honor
recipient who fought for the 34th New York Battery in the
American Civil War
- Dr.
James Martin Peebles
, 99, American physician, author and spiritualist whose 1884 book
How to Live a Century and Grow Old Gracefully
had been a nationwide best-seller. Born on March 23, 1822, Dr. Peebles passed away 36 days before his 100th birthday, but the centenary was observed anyway as "post-mortem one hundredth birthday party" held at his home. The event featured a friend, Dr. Guy Bogart, claiming to channel Peebles's message from the afterlife as it was being told to him by the spirit of Peebles.
[70]
February 16, 1922 (Thursday)
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- The U.S. Department of War announced that more than half of the remaining 6,000 U.S. Army occupation forces remaining in
Germany
were being withdrawn, beginning the second phase of the withdrawal of U.S. troops. In October, the first 8,000 had been redeployed to the U.S., and the orders affected 203 officers and 3,000 enlisted men in the U.S. Fifth Infantry and others stationed in
Koblenz
. A force of 169 officers and 2,717 would be the remaining U.S. force in Germany.
[71]
- Czechoslovakia
defeated
Sweden
, 3 to 2, to win the
European Ice Hockey Championship
.
- Born:
- Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer
, German Luftwaffe fighting ace with 121 aerial victories, most of them at nighttime against British bomber airplanes (killed in auto accident, 1950)
- Saul Robbins
, American toy maker and co-founder (with
Isaac Heller
) of the Remco Toy Company; in
Brooklyn
(d. 2010)
- Died:
February 17, 1922 (Friday)
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- Italy's Prime Minister
Ivanoe Bonomi
lost a vote of confidence by a large margin in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, with only 107 favoring his government to continue, and 209 opposing it.
[72]
- The government of
Japan
barred birth control advocate
Margaret Sanger
from entry into that nation. Mrs. Sanger had been scheduled to depart from
San Francisco
on February 21 to sail on the passenger steamer
Taiyo Maru
to begin a lecture tour.
[73]
- A mock trial of
Andre Breton
was conducted in a Paris cafe after he had published a polemic against
Tristan Tzara
, calling him a "publicity mongering imposter", that had split the
Dada
movement.
Erik Satie
served as "judge", and 100 other avant-gardists including
Pablo Picasso
and
Jean Cocteau
were in attendance. Breton seemed to be unprepared for the viciousness of the attacks brought against him, and the trial came to mark the unofficial end of Dadism.
[74]
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- Boxing promoter and sports promoter
George "Tex" Rickard
was arrested on charges of sexual assault and abduction, for which he was found not guilty or for which charges were dismissed.
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- Born:
- Enrico Banducci
(business name for Harry C. Banducci), American theatrical entrepreneur and producer impresario who launched careers for numerous singers and comedians, including
Barbra Streisand
and
Lenny Bruce
; in
Bakersfield, California
(d. 2007)
- Royal Navy Commandant
Mary Talbot
, Director of the
Women's Royal Naval Service
who worked to modernize the WRNS during her tenure from 1973 to 1976 (d. 2012)
- Dr.
Valentino Mazzia
, American anesthesiologist and medical expert who created the specialty of
forensic
anesthesiology
; in
New York City
(d. 1999)
- Chen Jiayong
, Chinese metallurgist and pioneer in the development of extractive
hydrometallurgy
; in
Jintang
,
Sichuan
Province, China (d. 2019)
- Howard Malmstadt
, American chemist and innovator of electronic measurement of chemical processes; in
Marinette, Wisconsin
(d. 2003)
- W. B. Makuloluwa
, Sri Lankan folk music composer, in Idamegama village
Harispattuwa
,
Kandy
,
British Ceylon
(now
Sri Lanka
) (d. 1984)
- Died:
- Ali Musliyar
, 60, Indian Muslim rebel and a leader of the
Malabar rebellion
, was executed by hanging at a prison in
Coimbatore
- Dr.
Albert Shelton
, 46, American physician and Christian missionary to
Tibet
, died a day after being ambushed by bandits near
Batang
,
Sichuan
province, near the Tibetan border. Dr. Shelton had been on his way to
Lhasa
after the Dalai Lama gave him permission in 1921 to become the first Christian missionary to enter Tibet.
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February 18, 1922 (Saturday)
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- The
Capper?Volstead Act
, officially called the Co-operative Marketing Associations Act, was signed into law by U.S. President Harding and allowed
agricultural cooperatives
(or "farmers co-ops") to be formed in the United States by exempting them from antitrust laws.
[77]
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
resigned as a U.S. federal judge, explaining he did not have enough time to hold the position while serving as
Commissioner of Baseball
and aiding the
American Legion
.
[78]
- The first of six installments of
The Chessmen of Mars
, the fifth of the
Edgar Rice Burroughs
series of
Barsoom
science fiction and fantasy novels with a setting on the planet
Mars
, was printed in
Argosy All-Story Weekly
, running until March 25. In November, the complete novel would be published. The installment introduced Burroughs's made up board game of "
jetan
", a Martian version of
chess
with 100 squares and 20 pieces on each side, played by the chessmen for wagering purposes. Burroughs added an appendix with rules in the novel after fans began writing him to express their interest, starting with a letter in August from an inmate of Leavenworth Prison.
[79]
- WOK, the first licensed radio station in the state of
Arkansas
, went on the air in
Pine Bluff
.
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- Iowa
's first radio station,
WOC
out of
Davenport
, went on the air.
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- Seven theaters in Washington, D.C., were ordered closed following a safety inquiry conducted after the
Knickerbocker Theatre
tragedy.
[81]
- Born:
- Helen Gurley Brown
, American author known for the 1962 bestseller
Sex and the Single Girl
and editor known for re-focusing
Cosmopolitan
magazine into a high-circulation monthly for modern career-women; in
Green Forest, Arkansas
(d. 2012)
- Constance "Connie" Wisniewski
, American baseball pitcher for the
AAGPBL
, winner of that league's player of the year award in 1945; in
Detroit
(d. 1995)
- Mikhail Savitsky
,
Belarusan
painter, in Zvenyachi, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (d. 2010)
- Wilson D. Watson
, U.S. Marine private and
Medal of Honor
recipient for killing more than 90 enemy soldiers during fighting in
Iwo Jima
on February 26 and 27, 1945; in
Tuscumbia, Alabama
(d. 1994)
February 19, 1922 (Sunday)
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- New York's
WJZ
became the first radio station to broadcast a live show.
[82]
Ed Wynn
came in and performed his "Perfect Fool" character, which was having a successful run on Broadway at the time, but he found himself freezing up in front of the microphone without the benefit of a live audience off of which to set his timing.
[83]
February 20, 1922 (Monday)
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February 21, 1922 (Tuesday)
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- The American airship
Roma
crashed in
Norfolk, Virginia
, killing 34 people, all but five of whom were officers and enlisted men of the U.S. Army's Air Service.
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The dirigible, filled with hydrogen gas that had been used to replace its relatively safe buoyant of helium, began a rapid descent after its
pitch control
broke. With no control of their vertical movement, the crew had the misfortune of striking high tension electrical wires, which caused the hydrogen to ignite into flame. Only 11 people on board survived the accident. The
Roma
had departed Langley Field at 1:30 in the afternoon for a test flight of its newly-installed
Liberty L-12
engines and was approaching Hampton Roads Naval Base when it began tilting forward.
[86]
- The
Ernst Lubitsch
-directed German epic historical film
The Loves of Pharaoh
premiered in New York.
- Born:
Sir
Jack Cater
,
Chief Secretary of Hong Kong
from 1978 to 1981; in
London
(d. 2006)
February 22, 1922 (Wednesday)
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- A presidential election
was held to approve General
Jose Maria Orellana
, who had overthrown the government of
Guatemala
in a coup d'etat on December 5, as
President of Guatemala
. In order to provide a token choice for voters, the Guatemalan Army placed General
Jorge Ubico
, who was one of Orellana's fellow coup leaders, on the ballot and did not allow any other candidates. Orellana received a reported 95% of the vote.
[87]
- The pioneering New York City radio station
WOR
began regular broadcasting, starting a mix of music and news transmitted from the roof of Bamberger's Department Store in
Newark, New Jersey
. The first record played on the station was
"April Showers"
, sung by
Al Jolson
.
[88]
- The
Pro-Treaty and Anti-Treaty factions
of
Sinn Fein
signed a truce regarding cooperation with the
Irish Free State
government and agreed to revisit the issue of the ratification in three months.
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[90]
- Born:
- Died:
John Joseph Jolly Kyle
, 84, Argentine chemist
February 23, 1922 (Thursday)
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- The
"Removal of Church Valuables for the Relief of the Starving"
Decree was signed into law by Vladimir Lenin after having been issued on February 9 by Russia's
All-Russian Central Executive Committee
. The decree, issued by the Soviet Communist Party, had the objective of paying for
famine relief
by the confiscation of religious
icons
containing jewelry, gold, silver or other precious minerals for processing and resale.
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Notice of the intended decree, had been published in the Soviet government newspaper
Izvestia
on February 11.
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The decree was finally published in by the government on February 26, to take effect on March 26 and ordering police agencies to take "the riches of churches of all denominations in gold, silver and jewels whose requisition cannot really injure the interests of the cult itself and hand them over to the official financial bodies for the benefit of the famine.
[94]
- The city of
San Diego, California
, with a population of around 75,000 people, was designated the site of
U.S. Destroyer Base, San Diego
by General Order 78, issued by U.S. Secretary of the Navy
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
, after the 11th Naval District had initially considered establishing the headquarters of the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet at
San Pedro
near
Los Angeles
.
[95]
The growth of the metropolitan area of
San Diego County
grew from 113,000 in 1920 to 1.3 million by 1970, and to 3.3 million a century after the order had been issued.
- Japan's Parliament, the all-male
National Diet
, rejected a proposal for
universal suffrage
, with only 159 in favor and 288 against extending voting rights to women.
[96]
Demonstrations outside of the parliament were peaceful during the day, but at 7:00 in the evening, when word of the result of the vote was revealed, about 1,000 people tried to break through police lines and rioting began. The members of the Diet voted to adjourn at 7:45 and were escorted under heavy police guard through the angry crowd.
[97]
- Born:
- Died:
Viscount Harcourt
, 59, former British
Secretary of State for the Colonies
1910 to 1915, from an accidental overdose of the sleeping aid
Bromidia
.
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February 24, 1922 (Friday)
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February 25, 1922 (Saturday)
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- The
United States Chamber of Commerce
announced the creation of the General Air Service Corporation, a regulated American airline using
dirigibles
for scheduled flights.
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- The Carnival of the Animals
, a
musical suite
written by French classical composer
Camille Saint-Saens
in 1886, was given its first public performance, two months after his death and 36 years after he had penned it. The composition, performed by the
Concerts Colonne
orchestra in Paris, conducted by
Gabriel Pierne
, was enthusiastically received by the audience and praised by critics. Ironically, Saint-Saens had forbidden the performance, during his lifetime, of what would become his best-known composition, because he worried that it would ruin his reputation.
[102]
- Died:
February 26, 1922 (Sunday)
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- A 20-year military alliance between the
United Kingdom
and
France
was agreed upon by British Prime Minister
David Lloyd George
and French Premier
Raymond Poincare
after two days of meetings in
Boulogne
, to be signed in London advance of the April 10 economic conference in
Genoa
. "If it means anything," a reporter for
The New York Times
wrote, "it must mean an end of the tiresome quarrels between England and France which have cursed Europe since Nov. 11, 1918." Besides agreeing to go to war if
Germany
made an unprovoked attack against either nation, the pact between the UK and France also meant "that England and France promise to protect
Poland
against attack by Germany?a considerable victory gained by France for her
protege
."
[104]
The pledge to Poland, in effect until the year
1942
, would be tested 17 years later on
September 1, 1939
, when the UK and France
would declare war on Germany
after the latter's invasion of Poland. The two premiers had met the day before to discuss the conference.
[105]
- Born:
February 27, 1922 (Monday)
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- The first National Radio Conference was opened in Washington, D.C., by Commerce Secretary
Herbert Hoover
.
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- The
U.S. Supreme Court
decided the companion cases of
Fairchild v. Hughes
and
Leser v. Garnett
, both of which rejected challenges by citizens to the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, extending the right to vote to women. Oscar Leser contended that the 19th Amendment didn't apply to the U.S. state of
Maryland
because the Maryland State Constitution specifically limited the right to vote to men, and the Maryland state legislature had voted against ratifying the 19th Amendment or amending the Maryland constitution. Charles S. Fairchild had filed suit to compel the withdrawal of the proclamation of the amendment's effect, and the Supreme Court determined that a citizen had no standing to maintain a cause of action.
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February 28, 1922 (Tuesday)
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Flag of the Sultanate of Egypt
Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles
- Britain ended its
protectorate over Egypt
by
a unilateral declaration
that declared
de jure
Egyptian sovereignty, but reserved British authority over Egypt's foreign and military affairs. The announcement stated that martial law, enforced by the British Army, would continue until the Egyptian government passed an act of indemnity to protect British interests, and that Britain would reserve its discretion in matters involving "security of British empire communications", "defence of Egypt against all foreign aggression and interference", protection of minorities and of foreign interests in Egypt, and protection of British interests in the
Sudan
.
[108]
[109]
Sultan Fuad I
, who had co-operated with British authorities during protectorate rule, would declare himself King of Egypt on March 15.
- A lavish royal wedding was conducted in Britain's
Westminster Abbey
for
Princess Mary
, the only daughter of
King George V
, as she married
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
.
[110]
[111]
- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
, leader of the
Russian Orthodox Church
, filed an appeal against the
"Removal of Church Valuables for the Relief of the Starving"
Decree in an attempt to delay enforcement of the order against the 80,000 orthodox churches in the Russian SFSR.
[
citation needed
]
- Born:
Jan H van der Merwe
, South African mathematician and physicist, pioneer in the field of
epitaxy
, co-developer of the
Frank?Van der Merwe crystal growth model
; in
Humpata
,
Portuguese West Africa
(now Angola) (d. 2016)
- Died:
Ella O'Neill
, 64, mother of
Eugene O'Neill
and wife of
James O'Neill
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