August 1922

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August 22, 1922: Provisional Irish Free State chairman Michael Collins killed in an ambush during the Irish Civil War
August 4, 1922: All telephones in the United States cease for one minute of silence in honor of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell

The following events occurred in August 1922:

August 1, 1922 (Tuesday)

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  • Britain published the Balfour Note, which declared that Britain would give up reparations claims as well as claims on other Allies to the extent that the United States would do the same with respect to Britain's debts.[1] The Note was met with great anger by the Americans for their being made to appear as greedy and an obstacle to international recovery.[2][3]
  • Forty people were killed and 50 injured when two trains carrying pilgrims to Lourdes collided between Agen and Tarbes, near Auch. In all, almost 500 passengers were on the two trains, which were both climbing uphill to Tarbes and Lourdes. According to the investigation, "the first train was too heavily laden and unable to climb a sharp gradient" and "the driver decided to return to Agen and ran down the hill backward" without regard to the second train.[4][5]
  • The House of Commons voted to expel MP Horatio Bottomley, the editor of John Bull magazine and a representative of the Hackney South constituency, after Bottomley's May 23 conviction on felony charges of fraud.[6]
  • The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, and an advisory organization for the League of Nations to promote the sharing of research findings between nations, held its first session.
  • Born: Edith Konecky, American feminist novelist; as Edith Rubin in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 2019)

August 2, 1922 (Wednesday)

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August 3, 1922 (Thursday)

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August 4, 1922 (Friday)

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  • A contingent of 1,500 National Army of Ireland troops landed in ships at three ports of County Kerry to retake the area of Munster from the Irish Republican Army, with 450 coming ashore at Fenit on the ferry SS Lady Wicklow and others landing at Tralee.[21][22] and Passage West.
  • At 6:25 p.m. Eastern time, the time of the burial of Alexander Graham Bell, all telephone service in the United States was suspended for one minute.[23][24][25]
  • The Aliens Decree was issued by the Bolshevik government of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, specifying which Belarusians could be citizens of the Soviet Union. All former subjects of the Russian Empire who were at least 14 years old and permanent residents were allowed to apply for citizenship, and all children younger than 14 were granted automatic citizenship. Citizenship could be denied to those who had defied the Soviet government or who failed to apply by the end of the year.
  • Born: Loro Boriçi, Albanian soccer football forward and later the manager of the Albania national team; in Shkodër (d. 1984)
  • Died:
    • Nikolai Belelubsky, 77, Russian civil engineer and leading bridge designer in Imperial Russia
    • Rear Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov, 73, Imperial Russian Navy officer who had surrendered his fleet to the Japanese Imperial Navy in the 1905 Battle of Tsushima despite the order of the Tsar.[26]
    • General Enver Pasha, 40, former Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire and leader of "Army of Islam" troops in a rebellion against the Boslehviks, came under attack by an ethnic Armenian brigade of the Soviet Red Army and was killed in battle near the village of Ab-i-Derya outside of the city of Dushanbe in what is now Tajikistan.[27][28] Enver had been convicted of war crimes in a court-martial in 1920 for his role in the massacre of Armenians.

August 5, 1922 (Saturday)

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  • A train collision in Sulphur Springs, Missouri killed 34 people and injured 186, the worst train disaster in Missouri history.[29] The Missouri Pacific express train 4, running from Fort Worth, Texas to St. Louis, crashed into a slower moving local train with 100 passenger, which had stopped at the Sulphur Springs station to take on water, and the local's wooden coaches were splintered. Many of the victims who survived the initial impact were scalded by steam from the No. 4 engine, while others drowned when their train cars rolled down an embankment into a creek.[30] An inquest concluded that the express train engineer, who was killed in the accident, had been negligent in failing to observe a stop signal because he had been reading orders handed to him at an earlier stop.[31]
  • Taxi driver Arthur Partridge introduced an independent bus service, "Chocolate Express".[32] Partridge became the first to challenge the monopoly that was held in London by the British Electric Traction and Underground Electric Railways. Within two years, other independent bus companies, referred to as "pirate operators", would follow Partridge's lead and as many as 500 independent buses would be competing the BET/UER monopoly for customers on London's streets. The independents would be outlawed by the London Traffic Act 1924, which limited bus operations to those licensed by the city.
  • Albert Einstein left Germany due to threats on his life by the same group of extremists that assassinated Walther Rathenau.[33]
  • The drama film Blood and Sand starring Rudolph Valentino and Lila Lee premiered in Los Angeles.[34]
  • The Battle of Kilmallock ended in an Irish Free State victory after two days of fighting, as Irish Republicans fell back toward Chareville.[35]
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  • Died: Tommy McCarthy, 59, American baseball player and inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame, known for his innovations and for being the only Hall member who played in the Union Association

August 6, 1922 (Sunday)

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August 7, 1922 (Monday)

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  • The trial of 37 defendants in the Inglewood Ku Klux Klan raid began.[39]
  • An Allied conference on reparations opened in London.[40][41]
  • The IRA blew up a telegraph cable station in Waterville, County Kerry, cutting communication lines between the United States and Europe.[42] Saboteurs took possession of the principal station operated by the Commercial Cable Company in Waterville and wrecked the equipment. Communication from the U.S. was still possible on the Western Union cable based at Penzance.[43] After more than two weeks of more expensive cables to and from the U.S., the Commercial Cable station at Waterville was recaptured by the Free Staters on August 25.[44]
  • Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns, who would be the home run champion of the American League for the season, became the first player to hit two home runs in a single inning of a baseball game.
  • Died:

August 8, 1922 (Tuesday)

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August 9, 1922 (Wednesday)

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  • Fourteen people were condemned to death in Soviet Russia for conspiring against the government. The judgments, however, were not enforced and those sentenced were not executed.[55][56]
  • Irish Free State troops landed four ships and 1,500 troops on the western coast of Ireland to invade Cork, Youghal and Bantry, encountering resistance from the Irish republicans only at Bantry. Rebels set Queenstown on fire in their retreat.[57]
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August 10, 1922 (Thursday)

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  • Irish Free State forces captured Cork, but not before retreating Republican forces set it on fire.[58][59]
  • Stuntman John Stevenson was killed during the filming of an episode of the movie serial Plunder while standing in for actress Pearl White.[60] Stevenson was on location at Columbus Avenue in New York City and was attempting to jump from a moving bus to catch a girder, but lost his grip, fell and fractured his skull. Plunder would be released on January 28 and run for 15 installments.
  • Germany and the United States signed a treaty that provided for the establishment of a joint American-German commission to decide the amount of reparations to be paid by the German government to the U.S. The agreement supplemented the U.S.–German Peace Treaty that had gone into effect on November 11, 1921.
  • Irish Republican Army terrorists Joseph O'Sullivan and Reginald Dunne were hanged at Wandsworth Prison near London for the June 22 assassination of Sir Henry Wilson, a Field Marshal with the British Army.
  • Born: Claudine Mawby and Claudette Mawby, twin sisters who joined their older sister Angela to form The Mawby Triplets as a trio of film actresses; in England. Claudette was killed in 1942 during an air raid on Brighton; Claudine would live until 2012.

August 11, 1922 (Friday)

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  • Ground was broken on the construction of Soldier Field in Chicago.[61]
  • During a debate in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, a Communist deputy said that the recent general strike had failed because the proletariat had been insufficiently armed. Fascist deputies rose and began shaking their fists, and Francesco Giunta pulled out a revolver. The session was abruptly suspended and the galleries ordered cleared, although the chaotic scene of shouting and gesticulating continued for another half-hour.[62]
  • Born:
    • Lyle Stuart (pen name for Lionel Simon), American gambler and author of books about casino gambling; in New York City (d. 2006)
    • Ron Grainer, Australian-born television music composer for British television known for the themes to Doctor Who and The Prisoner; in Atherton, Queensland (d. 1981)
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August 12, 1922 (Saturday)

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  • The geographic center of the United States (at the time, consisting of 48 states in the continent of North America) was announced by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey to be in Smith County, Kansas at 39°50' north and 98°35' east, a location about 2.6 miles (4.2 km) from the town of Lebanon, Kansas.[63]
  • Britain proposed a two-thirds cut in Germany's reparations payments at the London conference.[64]
Mitchelstown Castle before its destruction
Griffith a month before his death

August 13, 1922 (Sunday)

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  • U.S. President Warren G. Harding's attempt to mediate the six-week-old railroad strike ended in failure, after leaders of the striking labor unions rejected his plan to have the matter of seniority referred for arbitration by the Railroad Labor Board.[65]

August 14, 1922 (Monday)

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August 15, 1922 (Tuesday)

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August 16, 1922 (Wednesday)

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August 17, 1922 (Thursday)

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  • Forest fires ravaged northeastern Minnesota, leaving six people dead and hundreds homeless.[75]
Krishnamurti
  • Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian resident of the U.S., began what he called " an intense 'life-changing' experience", becoming ill and then semi-conscious, awakening with a new philosophy.[76] For the rest of his life, he would tour the world, write books and attract followers to his Krishnamurti Foundation schools in India and the United States until his death in 1986.
  • Father Vladimir Abrikosov of Russia, who had converted from Russian Orthodoxy to Catholicism and then ordained a Roman Catholic priest, was arrested by Soviet authorities for persuading other Russians to become Catholic. Initially sentenced to death, Abrikosov was spared the death penalty and on September 29, he would be expelled along with 150 other intellectuals and live in exile until his death in 1966.
  • Sir Gerald Summers, a British Army officer, was appointed by the Colonial Office as the new Commissioner of British Somaliland (now the unrecognized Republic of Somaliland portion of Somalia bordering the Gulf of Aden). He would govern for three years until his death in 1925.
  • U.S. Bureau of Prohibition agents began a crackdown on hip flasks, small metal containers used by persons wishing to bring their own liquor with them to a social occasion, giving notice to resort and restaurant operators in New York City that they could be held liable for not prohibiting patrons from bringing alcohol into their establishments.[77]
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August 18, 1922 (Friday)

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  • The day after Arthur Maertens set a record by keeping a glider aloft for more than an hour at a gliding competition in Germany[78] Frederich Hentzen was able to remain in the air for more than two hours over the Wasserkuppe using the Hannover H 1 Vampyr.[79]
  • President Harding addressed Congress on the industrial crisis in the country caused by the railway and coal strikes. He urged the implementation of his recommendations to confront them, which included the creation of an independent federal commission to investigate conditions in the coal industry as well a national coal agency (the Federal Coal Commission) aimed at the prevention of profiteering.[80]
  • Died:
    • Dame Geneviève Ward, 85, American-born English stage actress and opera soprano
    • Louis Kramer, 74, American baseball executive and the last president of the American Association, which had challenged the National League as a rival until its demise at the end of the 1891 season.

August 19, 1922 (Saturday)

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August 20, 1922 (Sunday)

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August 21, 1922 (Monday)

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  • French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré said that France would not consent to a moratorium on German reparations unless the country's mines and national forests were placed in Allied hands as a guarantee.[85]
  • George Bernard Shaw told the Chicago Tribune, "Everyone in Ireland is tired of the present political situation. I don't know what Éamon de Valera and Erskine Childers are after. When popular opinion turned against them they should have accepted the popular verdict and then tried to convert the Irish people to their views."[86]
  • Born: Mel Fisher, treasure hunter, in Indiana (d. 1998)

August 22, 1922 (Tuesday)

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August 23, 1922 (Wednesday)

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  • The crew of the American freighter SS Philadelphia mutinied after the ship had been prohibited from leaving the Bay of Naples by Italian customs officials, who had blocked it because of nonpayment for repairs.[92] The men ransacked and burned the ship, rendering it a total loss.[93]
  • The Federación Peruana de Futbol (FPF), the national governing body for soccer football in the South American nation of Peru, was founded in Lima with Claudio Martínez Bodero of the Atletico Chalaco team as its first president. The FPF took over the administration of the Liga Peruana de Foot Ball, which held a tournament from 1912 to 1922.
  • The city of Riverbank, California, located near Modesto, was incorporated in Stanislaus County. Its population increased 30-fold between 1930 when it had 803 people, to 2020 and now has a population of almost 25,000.
  • Born: George Kell, baseball player, in Swifton, Arkansas (d. 2009)
  • Died: Albert J. Hopkins, 76, U.S. politician who represented Illinois in Congress from 1885 to 1909, 18 years as Representative and 6 years as U.S. Senator

August 24, 1922 (Thursday)

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  • The Ku Klux Klan raided a gathering outside the town of Mer Rouge, Louisiana, kidnapped five white men who were vocal opponents of the Klan and murdered two of them, though the bodies would not be found until December. This led to one of the most famous criminal cases involving the KKK.[94]
  • The German mark began to crash again, falling to 8,000 against 1 British pound or 2,000 to the American dollar.[33][95]
  • On the last day of the glider competition in Germany, Frederich Hentzen kept the Vampyr motorless airplane aloft for more than three hours and maintained an altitude of 1,000 feet (300 m).[96]
  • The body of Michael Collins was brought to Dublin and borne on a gun carriage through the streets as large throngs of mourners watched in silence.[97]
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  • Died: William Wilson Talcott, 43, American publisher and former star quarterback, committed suicide by jumping from an excursion boat. His death came on the same day that his wife was released from a mental hospital.

August 25, 1922 (Friday)

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Cosgrave

August 26, 1922 (Saturday)

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August 27, 1922 (Sunday)

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  • An underground fire at the Argonaut gold mine in Jackson, California, killed 47 miners.[106][107][108]
  • A non-binding referendum on prohibition of alcohol was held in Sweden, with about 889,000 (49%) voting "Ja" for banning the sale and over 925,000 (51%) voting "Nej" against it.[109][110]
  • The trimonthly Soviet humor and satire magazine Krokodil published its first issue [111] At its height, it had 5.8 million subscribers (comparable to the circulation for Time magazine in the U.S. at the same time). [111] Losing popularity after the fall of Communism and the restrictions against the press, Krokodil would publish its last issue in 2000.
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  • Died:
    • Francis S. Peabody, 63, American coal baron and founder of Peabody Coal Company, the largest private coal company in the world. Peabody, who had invited wealthy guests for the first deer hunt of the season at his estate, Hinsdale, near Chicago, had apparently suffered a stroke and searchers found his horse standing beside him.[112]
    • Dr. Stephen Smith, 99, American surgeon who established the first public health agency in the United States, the Metropolitan Board of Health in New York City (1866), and later co-founded the American Public Health Association (1872). "Dr. Stephen Smith Dies in 100th Year— Famous Physician Was a Pioneer in Sanitary Reforms in New York City", The New York Times, August 27, 1922, p. 28
    • David Sharp, 81, British entomologist and editor of The Zoological Record. Among the species named in his honor are flies (Drosophila sharpi in Hawaii), ants (Pheidole sharpi in India) and beetles (Laccophilus sharpi).

August 28, 1922 (Monday)

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  • At 5:15 in the afternoon, WEAF of New York City, owned by the Western Electric subsidiary of AT&T, made the first-ever broadcast of an advertisement, a radio commercial for a newly opened Queensboro Apartments complex in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens.[113][114][115] A man identified as Mr. Blackwell spoke on behalf of Queensboro Corporation, which had paid $50 for 15 minutes of airtime on WEAF and used it to advocate suburban living and to promote the purchase of the rent-to-own apartments in Jackson Heights. Referring to the advantages of an "apartment-home" where one could "enjoy all the latest conveniences and contrivances demanded by the housewife and yet have all of the outdoor life that the city dweller yearns for but has deludedly supposed could only be obtained thru purchase of a house in the country," and closed with the statement "You owe it to yourself and you owe it to your family to leave the hemmed-in, sombre-hued, artificial apartment life of the congested city section and enjoy what nature intended you enjoy."[113]
  • Michael Collins was given a military funeral and buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.[116]
  • Died: Prince Gaston of Orleans, 80, French-born grandson of King Louis Philippe of France who became an officer in the Army of Spain during its war against Morocco and later in the Army of Brazil in the war against Paraguay, and who had been the groom of Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil in Brazil's first and only royal wedding.

August 29, 1922 (Tuesday)

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August 30, 1922 (Wednesday)

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Greek General Trikupis surrenders his sword to Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Pasha.[121]

August 31, 1922 (Thursday)

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