WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JULY 1922
Find out what all happened March to July 1922

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

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation. (10. March 1922)

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

Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'. (9. July 1922)

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

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

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

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

Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming. (7. April 1922)

The Hollywood Bowl opens. (11. July 1922)

Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten to death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (1. April 1922)

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

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

Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (12. March 1922)

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

U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal. (15. April 1922)

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