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Significant Events and Figures of 1922

This quiz explores key events and notable figures from the year 1922, testing your knowledge on historical milestones.

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1 ________ – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (d.

2 ________ – Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter and playwright

3 ________ – Charita Bauer, American actress/soap opera star (d.

4 ________ – Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.

5 April 28 – ________, Scottish writer (d.

6 ________ – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (d.

7 August 14 – ________, British newspaper magnate (b.

8 ________ – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

9 September 7 – ________, British writer, producer and actor

10 ________ Italian forces occupy Misurata in Libya.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the French battleship France sank after hitting an uncharted rock during a patrol of Quiberon Bay on August 26, 1922.
  • the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was re-established on 15 March 1922, less than a month after Egypt was officially granted independence from Britain.
  • the ultra-modern disposable female urination device, which lets women urinate upright, was actually invented in 1922.
  • the 1922 Red Ruhr Army workers' revolt was a response to the Kapp Putsch.
  • between 1922 and 1926, Soviet Russia was the only country in Europe where homosexual relations between consenting adults were legal.
  • Ralph Samuelson invented water skiing in 1922.
  • Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookstore in left bank Paris, first published James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922, but the book was subsequently banned in the United States, United Kingdom and the author's home country Ireland.
  • a Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922, after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom.
  • NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw was a firm created by Germany in 1922 to illegally manufacture submarines.
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