1922

Events from the year 1922 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Warren G. Harding (R-OH)
* Vice President: Calvin Coolidge (R-MA)
* Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (OH)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-MA)
* Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA)
* Congress: 67th
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie ice cream bar.
* January 28 – Snowfall from the Knickerbocker storm, the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.
* February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved.
* February 2 – The Ring boxing magazine is first published.
* February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
* February 7 – Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between United States, Britain, Italy, Japan and France
* February 10 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
* February 24 – Leser v. Garnett: 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.
* March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier, having been converted at Norfolk Naval Shipyard from fleet collier Jupiter. On October 17, Lt. Virgil C. Griffin pilots the first plane, a Vought VE-7, launched from her decks.
===April - June===
* April 1 - The Illinois General Assembly creates the Illinois State Police.
* April 7 – Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
* April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
* April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.
* May 5 – In the Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
* May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
* May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia.
* May 30 – In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
* June 11 – Première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film.
* June 14 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.
===July - September===
* July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl open-air music venue opens.
* July 25 – The United States recognizes Albania as a country.
* July 28 – The United States recognizes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as countries.
* July 30 – Radio station WMT (AM) begins broadcasting as WJAM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
* August 1 – The California grizzly bear is hunted to extinction.
===October - December===
* October 3 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia becomes the first female United States Senator, when the governor of Georgia gives her a temporary appointment, pending the election of a replacement for Senator Thomas Watson, who has died suddenly. She will not take office till November 21, and will thus serve for only one day.
* November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by 7 educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
==Memoriam==
* January 17 – George B. Selden, patent lawyer and inventor (aged 75; Rochester, NY, USA)
* January 21 – John Kendrick Bangs, fiction writer (aged 59; Atlantic City, NJ, USA)
* January 27 – Nellie Bly, journalist (aged 57; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 4 – Bert Williams, entertainer (aged 47; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 6 – Webb C. Ball, jeweler and watchmaker from Fredericktown, Ohio (aged 73; Cleveland Heights, OH, USA)
* March 10 – Harry Kellar, magician (aged 72; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* April 14 – Cap Anson, baseball player (aged 69; Chicago, IL, USA)
* May 4 – Asle Gronna, U.S. Senator from North Dakota from 1911 to 1921 (aged 63; Lakota, ND, USA)
* May 12 – John Martin Poyer, U.S. Navy Commander, 12th Governor of American Samoa (aged 61; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 6
** Richard A. Ballinger, politician (aged 63; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Lillian Russell, singer and actress (aged 61; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
* June 8 – Augustus Van Wyck, judge and politician (aged 71; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 22 – Newton C. Blanchard, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1894 to 1897 (aged 73; Shreveport, LA, USA)
* July 12 – George Washington Steele, lawyer, soldier, and politician (aged 82; Marion, IN, USA)
* August 1 – Francis S. White, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1914 to 1915 (aged 75; Birmingham, AL, USA)
* August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone (aged 75; Beinn Bhreagh, NS, Canada)
* August 5 – Tommy McCarthy, baseball player (aged 59; Boston, MA, USA)
* August 13 – John G. Woolley, politician, lawyer, and public speaker (aged 72; Granada, Spain)
* August 14 – Rebecca Cole, physician and social reformer (aged 76; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* August 23 – Albert J. Hopkins, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1903 to 1909 (aged 76; Aurora, IL, USA)
* September 5 – Sarah Winchester, builder of the Winchester Mystery House (aged 83; San Jose, CA, USA)
* September 7 – William Stewart Halsted, surgeon (aged 69; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* September 26 – Thomas E. Watson, Populist politician (aged 66; Washington, DC, USA)
* October 27 – Rita Fornia, opera singer (aged 44; Paris, France)
* November 3 – Alva Adams, 3-time Governor of Colorado (aged 72; Battle Creek, MI, USA)
* November 6 – Morgan Bulkeley, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1905 to 1911 (aged 84; Hartford, CT, USA)
* November 7 – Sam Thompson, baseball player (aged 62; Detroit, MI, USA)
* November 14 – Godfrey Chevalier, naval aviation pioneer (aged 33; Norfolk, VA, USA)
* December 12 – John Wanamaker, businessman (aged 84; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
==External links==
* 1922 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 15