September 1922 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1922 New York City law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billards".
• 04 Sep 1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m
• 05 Sep 1922 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York
• 06 Sep 1922 42nd US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64)
• 07 Sep 1922 In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
• 09 Sep 1922 Turkish troops conquer Smyrna / murder Greek citizens
• 10 Sep 1922 Largest Polo Grounds crowd Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive home runs.
• 11 Sep 1922 Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader
• 12 Sep 1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m
• 13 Sep 1922 The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.8 ?C (136.0 ?F).
• 15 Sep 1922 Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897
• 16 Sep 1922 42nd US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston
• 17 Sep 1922 Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ
• 18 Sep 1922 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Neth
• 20 Sep 1922 Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games
• 21 Sep 1922 President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
• 23 Sep 1922 B Brechts Drum in the Night, premieres in Germany
• 24 Sep 1922 Neurenberg fusion Congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
• 27 Sep 1922 King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
• 28 Sep 1922 Mussolini marches on Rome.
• 29 Sep 1922 Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program
• 30 Sep 1922 Government of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece

Famous Birthday

• Yvette Horner

  French musette accordionist.

• Vittorio Gassman

  Italian actor, onscreen from 1946 in Italy.

• Yvonne de Carlo
• Albert Raisner
• Emil Zátopek

  Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

• Michel Auclair

  German actor of stage and film, making his debut onscreen in 1945.

• Marcel Mouloudji

  French singer and actor (Born 1922).

• Chen Ning Yang

  China -- US physicist / disproved parity (Nobel 1957).

• Alexandre de Paris
• Sid Caesar

  American comic actor and writer, best known for the pioneering 1950s live audience television series, Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour,...

• Yma Sumac

  Zoila stage name Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo, Peruvian soprano of international success in the fifties known for her unusual vocal, who...

• Nicholas Romanov Prince of Russia
• Robert Fisher

  American comedy writer for Groucho Marx at age 19; wrote "Amos and Andy" for five years.

• Santa Cruz (California)
• Roger Etchegaray

  French cardinal of the Catholic Church, former archbishop of Marseille, born in Espelette (Basque country).

• Arthur Penn

  American film director, one of the first to reach superstar status with the quality and popularity of his work.

• Jackie Cooper

  American actor on-screen from age three in 1925 as an adorable top child actor.

• Janis Paige

  American actress, a leading lady with operatic voice training.

• Jesse Unruh

  American politician who was one of California's most influential public officials in the 20th century.

• Pierre Magnan
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Famous Deaths

• Arpad Szendy

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Andrejs Jurjans

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Paul Barth

  German philosopher / sociologist, dies at 64.

• Georgette Agutte

  French painter, a non-conformist and the only woman to attend the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

• Georges Sorel

  French Socialist and revolutionary syndicalist who developed an original and provocative theory on the positive, even creative, role of myth...

• Louis Coerne

  American composer and educator (d. 1922).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Neath the South Sea Moon
2. Edwin Dale - In May Time (I Learned to Love)
3. Carl Fenton & His Orchestra - Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
4. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Hot Lips
5. Ray Miller & His Orchestra - I'm Just Wild About Harry