WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO AUGUST 1922
Find out what all happened April to August 1922

A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people. (2. August 1922)

The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom. (20. July 1922)

The United States annex the Kingman Reef. (10. May 1922)

The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed. (16. April 1922)

Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan. (15. July 1922)

The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.. (30. May 1922)

The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR. (20. April 1922)

Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na Bláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War. (22. August 1922)

The Hollywood Bowl opens. (11. July 1922)

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". (29. June 1922)

The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated. (5. April 1922)

General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority. (16. June 1922)

The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established. (19. May 1922)

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. (30. June 1922)

Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence"). (30. August 1922)

The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States. (1. July 1922)

Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks. (27. August 1922)

The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded. (1. June 1922)

The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City. (29. August 1922)

Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (3. April 1922)