May 1922 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1922 Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game.
• 02 May 1922 WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Fort Worth Texas.
• 03 May 1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk.
• 04 May 1922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
• 05 May 1922 Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx).
• 07 May 1922 New York Giants Jesse Barnes no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 2-0.
• 10 May 1922 Dr Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar
• 11 May 1922 Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
• 12 May 1922 A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA.
• 13 May 1922 48th Preakness: L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 1:51.6
• 18 May 1922 Sergei Diaghilev, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.
• 19 May 1922 The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
• 20 May 1922 Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless.
• 21 May 1922 Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
• 23 May 1922 Harry Greb gives Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat.
• 24 May 1922 Russian-Italian trade agreement signed.
• 25 May 1922 Babe Ruth suspended one day and fined $200 for throwing dirt on an umpire.
• 26 May 1922 Lenin suffers a stroke.
• 29 May 1922 US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws.
• 30 May 1922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated

Famous Birthday

• Christopher Lee

  American actor who gained an avid following after his films "Curse of Frankenstein," 1957 and "Dracula" a year later.

• Serge Reggiani

  Italian/french actor and singer.

• Bea Arthur

  TV Actress.

• Enrico Berlinguer

  Italian head of the Communist Party from 1972-1984.

• Iannis Xenakis

  Braila, Romania -- Composer / architect / mathematician.

• Dora Doll
• Franjo Tudjman
• Aimable (accordionist)
• Nancy Walker

  American actress, singer and comedienne, known for her diminutive size of 4' 11" along with a bull-moose voice.

• Jean Rédélé

  French automotive pioneer, racing driver and founder of the French automotive brand Alpine.

• Denise Noël
• Michel Poniatowski

  French politician, a member of the senior branch of Poland's princely Poniatowski family.

• Denholm Elliott

  English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70.

• Dominique Aubier

  French author.

• George Claude Pimentel
• Marcel Locquin
• Jacques Duby

  French stage, film and television actor.

• Darren McGavin

  American actor and director (d. 2006).

• Julian Goodman

  American broadcasting executive and journalist.

• Barnay Rosset
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Famous Deaths

• Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

  French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1845).

• Heinrich I Quincke German internist (postural drainage)

  dies at age 79.

• Carl Tieke composer

  dies at age 58.

• Jevgeni B Vachtangov Armenian/Russian actor/director

  dies at age 39.

• David Mendes Chumaceiro Cura?aos poet (Adelfas)

  dies at age 45.

• Viktor Kingissepp

  Estonian Bolshevik politician (Born 1888).

• Max Wagenknecht

  German organist composer and educator (d. 1922).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Al Jolson - Angel Child
2. Prince's Orchestra - Selections from Blossom Time
3. Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - Indiana Lullaby
4. Benson Orchestra of Chicago - Virginia Blues
5. Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - Three O'Clock in the Morning