List of events
Events from the year 1922 in the United States .
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 – The Ring boxing magazine is first published. February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved. 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. May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated 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. October 5 – Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing is founded by six nursing students at the Indiana Training School for Nurses (Now Indiana University School of Nursing) in Indianapolis, Indiana.[ 6] November 7 – William W. Brandon is elected the 37th governor of Alabama defeating Oliver D. Street . 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. George McGovern January 1 January 3 – John R. Schmidhauser , politician (d. 2018 ) January 5 – Helen Smith , female baseball player (d. 2019 ) January 13 – Bud Anderson , fighter pilot (d. 2024 ) January 17 – Betty White , actress, comedian and producer (d. 2021 )[ 12] January 19 January 20 January 21 – Sam Mele , baseball player and manager (d. 2017 ) January 22 January 24 January 26 – Bob Thomas , Hollywood biographer and reporter (d. 2014 ) January 28 – Robert W. Holley , biochemist and Nobel laureate (d. 1993 )[ 14] January 30 January 31 – Joanne Dru , actress (d. 1996 ) February 2 – James L. Usry , first African-American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2002 ) February 4 February 6 February 9 – Kathryn Grayson , American actress (d. 2010 )[ 15] February 10 – Harold Hughes , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1969 to 1975 (d. 1996 ) February 12 February 13 February 15 – John B. Anderson , Congressman and presidential candidate (d. 2017 )[ 16] February 17 February 18 February 19 – Margherita Marchione , Roman Catholic sister, writer, teacher and apologist (d. 2021 ) February 23 – James L. Holloway III , naval officer (d. 2019 ) February 24 March 1 – William Gaines , magazine publisher (MAD ) (d. 1992 ) March 2 – Arnold Hano , editor and non-fiction writer (d. 2021 ) March 4 March 7 – Andy Phillip , American basketball player and coach (d. 2001 ) March 8 March 9 March 12 March 14 – Arch Johnson , actor (d. 1997 ) March 17 – Patrick Suppes , philosopher (d. 2014 ) March 18 – Fred Shuttlesworth , civil rights leader (d. 2011 )[ 22] March 20 – Carl Reiner , comedian, actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2020 ) March 22 – Alex Xydias , racing driver March 23 – Marty Allen , comedian and television actor (d. 2018 ) March 26 – William Milliken , American politician (d. 2019 ) March 27 March 29 – March Fong Eu , politician (d. 2017 ) March 31 April 1 – William Manchester , writer (d. 2004 )[ 25] April 3 – Doris Day , actress, singer and animal rights activist (d. 2019 ) April 4 April 7 – Margia Dean , actress (d. 2023 ) April 9 – Johnny Thomson , racing driver (d. 1960 ) April 16 – Pat Peppler , American football player and coach (d. 2015 ) April 19 April 23 – Marjorie Cameron , writer, painter, actress and occultist (d. 1995 ) April 27 – Jack Klugman , actor (d. 2012 ) April 28 – William Broomfield , politician (d. 2019 ) May 3 – Robert De Niro Sr. , painter (d. 1993 ) May 4 – Eugenie Clark , marine biologist (d. 2015 )[ 29] May 7 May 10 – Nancy Walker , actress, singer and director (d. 1992 ) May 11 May 12 May 18 – Bill Macy , actor (Maude ) (d. 2019 ) May 21 – James Lopez Watson , judge (d. 2001 ) May 26 – Troy Smith , businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In (d. 2009 ) May 28 – Lou Duva , boxing trainer (d. 2017 ) May 29 – Eleanor Coerr , writer (d. 2010 ) May 30 – Hal Clement , writer (d. 2003 ) June 1 June 2 – Charlie Sifford , golfer (d. 2015 ) June 9 – George Axelrod , scriptwriter (d. 2003 ) June 10 June 13 – Edward Shames , army officer (d. 2021 ) June 16 – Wayne Mixson , politician (d. 2020 ) June 23 – Morris R. Jeppson , physicist (d. 2010 ) June 24 – Jack Carter , comedian (d. 2015 ) June 25 – Alex Garbowski , baseball player (d. 2008 ) June 27 – George Walker , African American classical composer (d. 2018 ) June 29 – John William Vessey Jr. , military officer (d. 2016 ) July 1 – Warren Winkelstein , epidemiologist (d. 2012 ) July 2 – Howard Wesley Johnson , educator (d. 2009 ) July 3 – Howie Schultz , baseball and basketball player (d. 2009 ) July 4 July 6 July 7 – James D. Hughes , US Air Force lieutenant general (d. 2024 ) July 9 – Jim Pollard , basketball player and coach (d. 1993 ) July 10 July 11 July 12 – Mark Hatfield , politician and educator (d. 2011 ) July 13 July 14 – Robin Olds , fighter pilot (d. 2007 ) July 15 – Leon M. Lederman , experimental physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 (d. 2018 ) July 16 – Samuel Conti , politician (d. 2018 ) July 17 – Jane Cronin Scanlon , mathematician (d. 2018 ) July 18 – Thomas Kuhn , philosopher of science (d. 1996 )[ 33] July 19 July 20 – Alan S. Boyd , attorney and 1st United States Secretary of Transportation (d. 2020 ) July 24 – Dean Caswell , World War II flying ace (d. 2022 )[ 34] July 25 – John B. Goodenough , German-American solid-state physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 (d. 2023 ) July 26 July 27 – Norman Lear , television writer and producer (d. 2023 ) July 31 August 1 – Paul Lambert , actor (d. 1997 ) August 2 August 3 – Robert Sumner , evangelist (d. 2016 ) August 4 – Charles Winick , anthropologist, sociologist and author (d. 2015 ) August 5 – Sandy Kenyon , actor (d. 2010 ) August 15 – Peter Berkos , sound editor (d. 2024 ) August 17 – Frederick B. Dent , businessman and politician (d. 2019 ) August 21 – Mel Fisher , treasure hunter , founder of the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum (d. 1998 ) August 23 – George Kell , baseball player (d. 2009 ) August 24 – Howard Zinn , social activist and historian (d. 2010 )[ 35] August 25 – Gloria Dea , actress and magician (d. 2023 )[ 36] August 29 – Arthur Anderson , American actor of radio, film, television, and stage (d. 2016 ) September 2 – Arthur Ashkin , physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 (d. 2020 ) September 9 September 11 – Charles Evers , politician and civil rights activist (d. 2020 ) September 12 – Jackson Mac Low , poet (d. 2004 ) September 13 – Tony Sumpter , American football player (d. 2017 ) September 15 September 17 – Vance Bourjaily , writer, novelist, playwright, journalist, and essayist (d. 2010 ) September 18 – John S. Foster Jr. , physicist September 22 – Rosa Speer , gospel singer (d. 2017 ) September 23 – Louise Latham , actress (d. 2018 ) September 24 October 1 – Burke Marshall , lawyer and politician (d. 2003 ) October 7 – Martha Stewart , actress and singer (d. 2021 )[ 37] October 9 – Fyvush Finkel , comedian (d. 2016 ) October 10 – Wilhelmina Holladay , art collector and patron (d. 2021 )[ 38] October 13 – Nathaniel Clifton , basketball and baseball player (d. 1990 ) October 15 – Tommy Edwards , singer-songwriter (d. 1969 ) October 16 – George R. Price , population geneticist (d. 1975 ) October 19 – Jack Anderson , journalist (d. 2005 ) October 20 – John Anderson , actor (d. 1992 ) October 23 – Coleen Gray , actress (d. 2015 )[ 39] October 26 October 27 October 28 – Butch van Breda Kolff , basketball coach (d. 2007 ) October 30 – Marie Van Brittan Brown , inventor (d. 1999 ) November 3 – Townsend Cromwell , oceanographer (d. 1958 ) November 4 – Eddie Basinski , baseball player (d. 2022 ) November 5 – Yitzchok Scheiner , American-born rabbi (d. 2021 ) November 6 – Vivian Kellogg , baseball player (d. 2013 ) November 9 – Dorothy Dandridge , actress and singer (d. 1965 ) November 11 – Kurt Vonnegut , writer (d. 2007 ) November 15 – David Sidney Feingold , biochemist (d. 2019 ) November 16 November 23 – Donald Tennant , advertising agency executive (d. 2001 ) November 27 – Jacqueline White , actress December 2 December 5 December 6 – Benjamin A. Gilman , politician (d. 2016 ) December 8 December 11 – Noah Hutchings , president of Southwest Radio Ministries (d. 2015 ) December 12 – Edythe Perlick , baseball player (d. 2003 ) December 16 – B. G. Hendrix , politician (d. 2020 ) December 17 – Alan Voorhees , engineer and urban planner (d. 2005 ) December 18 – Jack Brooks , politician (d. 2012 ) December 20 December 24 – Ava Gardner , actress (d. 1990 ) December 26 – Chuck Cecil , radio broadcaster (d. 2019 ) December 27 – Miller Anderson , diver (d. 1965 ) December 28 – Stan Lee , comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor and president and chairman of Marvel Comics (d. 2018 )[ 42] January 17 – George B. Selden , patent lawyer and inventor (b. 1846 ) January 21 – John Kendrick Bangs , fiction writer (b. 1862 ) January 27 – Nellie Bly , journalist (b. 1864 ) March 4 – Bert Williams , entertainer (b. 1874 ) March 6 – Webb C. Ball , jeweler and watchmaker from Fredericktown, Ohio (born 1848 ) March 10 – Harry Kellar , magician (b. 1849 ) April 14 – Cap Anson , baseball player (b. 1852 ) April 29 – Susan Hammond Barney , American social activist and evangelist (b. 1834 ) May 12 – John Martin Poyer , U.S. Navy Commander, 12th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1861 ) June 6 June 22 – Newton C. Blanchard , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1894 to 1897 (b. 1849 ) August 1 – Francis S. White , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1914 to 1915 (b. 1847 ) August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell , inventor of telephone August 5 – Tommy McCarthy , baseball player (b. 1863 ) August 14 – Rebecca Cole , physician and social reformer (b. 1846 )[ 43] August 23 – Albert J. Hopkins , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1903 to 1909 (b. 1846 ) September 5 – Sarah Winchester , builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b. 1837 ) September 7 – William Stewart Halsted , surgeon (b. 1852 ) September 26 – Thomas E. 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