WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JULY 1922
Find out what all happened February to July 1922

A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett. (27. February 1922)

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

The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation. (24. April 1922)

Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. (9. February 1922)

In India, Mohandas Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He served only 2 years. (18. March 1922)

Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and shoot all eight males inside. (24. March 1922)

President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House. (8. February 1922)

The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy. (6. February 1922)

The Hollywood Bowl opens. (11. July 1922)

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

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

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)

The USS Langley (CV-1) is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. (20. March 1922)

The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. (28. June 1922)

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

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

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

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

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

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