WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1922
Find out what all happened January to June 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. (15. March 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)

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)

Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses. (28. January 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)

Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote. (7. January 1922)

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

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

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

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