December 1922 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1922 Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns.
• 04 Dec 1922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service
• 05 Dec 1922 The British Parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new Constitution of the Irish Free State.
• 06 Dec 1922 One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
• 09 Dec 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
• 10 Dec 1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards.
• 11 Dec 1922 End of the trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson at the Old Bailey. Both found guilty and sentenced to death.
• 15 Dec 1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague.
• 16 Dec 1922 Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs formally organizes.
• 17 Dec 1922 Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate.
• 19 Dec 1922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times.
• 20 Dec 1922 Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president.
• 22 Dec 1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch University in Ghent.
• 23 Dec 1922 Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano.
• 24 Dec 1922 BBC sends first British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas".
• 27 Dec 1922 Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
• 29 Dec 1922 Dutch Constitution proclaimed
• 30 Dec 1922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR
• 07 Dec 1922 The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.

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