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

Famous Birthday

• Ava Gardner

  American actress, onscreen from 1941 in a career of more than 60 movies.

• Gérard Philipe

  French actor on stage and film and a film director.

• Stan Lee

  Comic Book Author.

• Benjamin Creme

  Scottish metaphysician and author of "Reappearance of the Christ" and "Messages from Matreya.

• Lucian Freud

  German-English painter and illustrator (d. 2011).

• Francis Bouygues

  French entrepreneur, father of Martin Bouygues.

• Jacques Capelovici

  French language and crossword editor.

• Redd Foxx

  American actor and comedian.

• Simon Hantaï
• Douglas Baker

  British astrologer and occultist, a prolific writer of books based on the Alice Bailey teachings.

• Grace Paley

  writer (1970 Arts and Letters Award).

• Gérard Séty

  French music hall actor, comedian, parodist and artist who died at 11:05am on 1 February 1998 in Maisons-Laffitte, France.

• Yvette Etiévant
• Ruth Roman

  American actress and singer (d. 1999).

• Ivan Desny
• Micheline Ostermeyer

  French athlete and concert pianist, a great-niece of French author Victor Hugo.

• Eamonn Andrews

  Irish TV actor who is best known for the series "This Is Your Life" and "What's My Line.

• Jean Malaurie
• Edna Rowland

  American astrologer and author of "How to Order Your Birth Certificate," 1990 and "Destined for Murder," 1995.

• Don Fellows
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Famous Deaths

• Samuel Muller Fzn Dutch historian/archivist

  dies.

• Gabriel Narutowicz first President of Poland (December 7-16

  1922), assassinated.

• Alphonse Goovaerts composer

  dies at age 75.

• Hannes Hafstein

  Icelandic poet and politician 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1922).

• Carl Meyer

  British banker and mining magnate (Born 1851).

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