WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1922
Find out what all happened June to September 1922

The Hollywood Bowl opens. (11. July 1922)

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

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

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

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

The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna. (9. September 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 League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom. (20. July 1922)

At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. (12. June 1922)

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

King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II. (27. September 1922)

The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences. (13. September 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 Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia. (11. September 1922)

One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded. (11. September 1922)

The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States. (1. 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 Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation. (7. September 1922)

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

Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois. (22. June 1922)

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