The
Reichsbank in Germany was closed by police following a
bank run by employers looking to meet overdue payrolls.[1]
The
Constitution of Mandatory Palestine was put into effect by publication, providing for the British Mandate in what is now Israel and Jordan, to be governed by a British High Commissioner and an elected Legislative Council and to have a civil and religious court system. [2]
An agreement to end the nationwide anthracite coal mining strike in the United States was reached between the United Mine Workers of America and the Policy Committee of the Anthracite Coal Operators, by extending the terms of the contract between labor and management to at least August 31, 1923. The compromise came after the intervention of U.S. President Harding, who had appealed to both sides "in the name of public welfare" to accept the proposal to end the strike in time for the onset of winter, as made by the two U.S. Senators for Pennsylvania,
David A. Reed and
George W. Pepper, both of whom had been in office for less than a year.[3]
German President
Friedrich Ebert declared the "
Deutschlandlied" to be the
national anthem of
Germany.[4] The lyrics were limited to the song's third stanza ("Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit, Für das deutsche Vaterland!"). The song would be used in Nazi Germany (with the words of the more militant first stanza, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt,") until the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. The "Deutschlandlied" would be made the anthem of West Germany on May 2, 1952 and continued after the reunification of Germany in 1989.
September 3, 1922 (Sunday)
The Austrian government issued a decree forbidding, except in the city of
Vienna, the sale of alcohol in restaurants after 10 p.m., and in bars after midnight. Newspapers called it a first step towards
prohibition.[5]
Died: Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, 31, Austrian heiress and mother of the seven children who would become the
Trapp Family singers who were the subject of the musical The Sound of Music, died of
scarlet fever. In 1927, Agathe's widowed husband, former submarine commander
Georg von Trapp, would remarry, taking the children's teacher,
Maria Kutschera (portrayed in film by Julie Andrews) as his wife.
John Hessin Clarke, an Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court, announced his resignation, to take effect on September 18, his 65th birthday.[8] Clarke had only been on the Court for six years, and friends said that he would work toward bringing the United States into the League of Nations.[9]
James Young, 40, Scottish footballer, was killed in a motorcycle accident
September 5, 1922 (Tuesday)
A mine explosion at Haig Colliery in
Whitehaven, England killed 39 miners.[10]
In a telegram to prime minister
Rauf Orbay,
Turkey's President
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk asserted the Turkish claim to
East Thrace (Trakya) as part of its conditions of the settlement of the war with Greece, to take back territory that had been ceded to Greece in 1920. [11] The areas that came back under Turkish control under the 1923
Treaty of Lausanne would include
Edirne (Adrianople) and
İzmir (Smyrna).
A new law went into effect in
Poland as part of an effort to stop the spread of venereal diseases, amending the Basic Sanitation Law to regulate
houses of prostitution.[12]
Brazil celebrated its
100th birthday with a twenty-one gun salute at midnight and parading in the streets of
Rio de Janeiro throughout the day.[14]
Man Singh II, the 10-year-old adopted son of
Madho Singh II, became the
Maharaja of Jaipur upon Madho II's death. He would retain the honorary title after India's independence in 1947 and would receive a pension until his death in 1970.
Mary Katherine Campbell of
Columbus, Ohio won the second annual
Miss America pageant, competing as one of 58 "intercity" contestants in
Atlantic City, New Jersey, and in the process, "triumphing over more than 500 amateur and professional rivals." [16] Under the rules of the competition, the winners of the three classes of competitors (intercity, amateur and professional beauties) went up against the reigning Miss America,
Margaret Gorman, and the judges picked the winner from the four finalists. Campbell, who had won the intercity competition as "Miss Columbus", was selected as the winner of $5,000 and the Golden Mermaid Trophy.
At least 30 people, all women and children who were passengers on the German steamship Hammonia, died when the two lifeboats that they were in overturned, after they safely evacuated the ship as it foundered off the coast of Spain. The passenger list went down with the ship, but the ship captain believed that there were 365 passengers and 192 crew for a total of 537 people on board. Another steamship, Kinfauns Castle, rescued 383 survivors and its captain said that he witnessed 80 people drowning, while other observers put the number of dead as high as 150.[23][24]
The
Gormanston Camp for captured Irish Republicans was opened at the site of a former
Royal Irish Constabulary base, and housed over 1,000 prisoners at its height, finally closing at the end of 1923. [25]
Died: Annie Royle Taylor, 66, English explorer and evangelist who, in 1892, was the first Western woman to visit
Tibet
September 10, 1922 (Sunday)
Film producer
Hal Roach introduced the first of 220 short films in the Our Gang series, as the
Pathé company released the silent 20-minute feature "
One Terrible Day", directed by
Robert F. McGowan and
Tom McNamara. The series of movies about the adventures of a gang of children, was shown before feature films and continued until 1944, and then was syndicated on television from 1955 onward as The Little Rascals.
The New York World published an interview by
Clare Sheridan with English writer
Rudyard Kipling in which he was quoted as saying that America had come into the war "two years, seven months and four days too late" and had "quit the day of the Armistice, without waiting to see the thing through." Kipling believed he had made the remarks in the context of a private conversation and so in the media uproar that ensued he publicly denied ever giving Sheridan an interview at all.[26][27]
The
British Mandate of Palestine began as the oath of office for the High Commissioner of Palestine was administered to
Sir Herbert Samuel, as well as to the Commander in Chief of British forces there. The ceremony took place in Jerusalem in the presence of
Lord Allenby, the British Army Field marshal who liberated Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, and by the Emir Abdullah of Jordan.[29]
Turkish troops who had taken over the Smyrna Province from Greece carried out a massacre of Armenian residents under the direction of the new Turkish Governor,
Nureddin Pasha, according to a statement made afterwards by a British eyewitness who had been able to flee the area. Businessman Roy Treloar said that Nureddin "commenced a systematic hunting down of Armenians, who were gathered in batches of 100, taken to
Konak and murdered."[31]
The former
Prime Minister of Greece,
Eleftherios Venizelos, announced from Paris that he would form a government only if King Constantine abdicated and if Prime Minister
Nikolaos Triantaphyllakos and his government resigned.[32] Although the
"September 11 Revolution" in Greece is sometimes mistakenly listed as having happened on this day, Greece at the time was still operating under the Julian calendar, and the revolution took place on 24th September according to the Gregorian calendar recognized by the rest of the world.
Hoping to prevent a split within the Communist Party leadership in the Soviet Union,
Vladimir Lenin proposed that
Leon Trotsky, alongside Lev Kamenev, would become Lenin's deputy on Sovnarkom, the
Council of People's Commissars. Trotsky declined to accept the invitation. [33]
One of the predecessors of
Melbourne, Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper, The Sun News-Pictorial, was launched by Hugh Dennison as "a morning tabloid with a light touch and heavy with photographs." publication. It would merge with
The Herald, effective October 8, 1990. [34]
The
Treaty of Kars was ratified in
Yerevan, setting the boundary between
Turkey and the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, which would continue as the Turkish-Soviet boundary afterward. [35]
September 12, 1922 (Tuesday)
The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States voted to alter the
Book of Common Prayer language for
wedding vows to no longer require the bride to agree to "obey" her husband. The decision to revise the Common Prayer treatise was approved at the meeting in
Portland, Oregon by a vote of 36 to 27.[36]
Pola Negri (stage name for Apolonia Chalupec), signed by
Paramount Pictures after having been a star for Germany's
UFA studios, arrived in the United States on the liner Majestic as the first film actress from continental Europe to be promoted in the U.S. [38]
Ascension Island unified politically with the island of
Saint Helena, 800 miles (1,300 km) away, as a single British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. [39]
A fire killed more than 10,000 people in the port city of
Smyrna (now İzmir), which had been recaptured from Greece four days earlier by Turkish troops to end the
Greco-Turkish War.[40] According to contemporary accounts from witnesses evacuated from the area, Turkish troops set multiple fires to the Basmane neighborhood in the Armenian quarter of the city, and the fire was spread by windy weather.[41]
The highest weather temperature ever recorded on Earth, 58.0 °C (136.4 °F), was measured at
El Azizia in
Libya near
Tripoli, breaking the record of 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) that had been recorded in
Death Valley in the United States on July 10, 1913. The record would stand until 2012, when the
World Meteorological Organization reviewed the data and concluded that the 58-degree centigrade reading had been taken by an inexperienced observer who had recorded a temperature seven degrees hotter than nearby areas.[42]
The
nationwide railroad strike in the U.S. began to wind down as about one-third of the country's railways reached an agreement with the shopmen.[43] The agreement meant the restoration of service for at least 30 of the 202 Class 1 railroad lines including the New York Central; the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul; the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; the Baltimore & Ohio; the Seaboard Line and the Norfolk & Western.[44]
France and Poland signed a ten-year military convention pledging to defend each other in the event of an attack.[45]
The "
Straw Hat Riot" broke out in New York City after a gang of youths in Manhattan assaulted dockworkers who were still wearing straw hats after Labor Day. The tradition in the U.S. at the time had not only been to switch from straw hats to felt hats in the autumn, but to knock the hats off of the heads of people who failed to make the switch. Publicity about the incident led to copycat attacks by other gangs over the next several days.[46]
September 14, 1922 (Thursday)
The
Argentine Polo Association (Asociación Argentina de Polo or AAP), the governing body for one of the most popular sports in Argentina, was founded in
Buenos Aires, with the goal of creating a national team for international competitions.[47]
Johnny Buff (ring name for John Lisky), holder of the American flyweight boxing championship in a weight class with no world title, lost the U.S. title to Filipino challenger
Pancho Villa (Francisco Villaruel) at Ebbets Field in New York City."Johnny Buff Loses Flyweight Title to Pancho Villa", by Marshall Hunt, Daily News (New York), September 16, 1922, p. 25
The
Chanak Crisis began as the British government threatened Turkey with war as Turkish forces approached the neutral zone at
Çanakkale.[21] Britain also appealed to the
British Dominions to lend their assistance.[45]
The
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and two associates upheld the suspension of
habeas corpus in the country due to the state of war and denied an application to free 5,000 prisoners held by the military.[49]
On the same day,
J. William Billes and
Alfred J. Billes invested their combined savings to purchase Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd. for the purpose of selling tires at a discount by buying at low cost during the winter and marking up the prices to sell at a profit in the summer.[50] The company would be rebranded as
Canadian Tire Corporation Ltd. in 1927.
The
Council on Foreign Relations, based in the U.S., began publication of its bimonthly magazine, Foreign Affairs: An American Quarterly Review, with Volume 1, Number 1 dated September 15, 1922. The first article, after Archibald Cary Coolidge's editorial statement, was "A Requisite for the Success of Popular Diplomacy", by former U.S. Secretary of State
Elihu Root.[51]
German Chancellor
Joseph Wirth declared "Bread first, reparations second."[52]
The
Turkish Orthodox Church, a denomination for the minority Christian population in the predominantly Muslim nation of Turkey, was founded in
Kayseri in Anatolia as nationalist denomination that conducted services in the
Turkish language and provided for the continuation of the Christian faith.[53] Pavlos Karahisarithis, a Turkish bishop, became the first patriarch of the denomination, which was not recognized within the worldwide Orthodox Christian organization, and took the regnal name of
Papa Eftim I.
Vasil Laçi, Albanian independence activist who attempted to kill King
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy during the Italian occupation of Albania; in
Piqeras (executed, 1941)
Died: Mary Ann Booth, 79, American scientist and specialist in microscopic photography of microorganisms
September 16, 1922 (Saturday)
British troops with heavy artillery landed in Turkey to prevent the Turks from taking control of the Dardanelles or Bosporous Straits, which connected the
Black Sea to the Aegean Sea and then to the Mediterranean Sea.[54]
The
League of Nations approved the
Trans-Jordan memorandum setting the boundaries of the
Kingdom of Jordan, with the
Jordan River setting the border between the Palestine mandate (and future nation of Israel) and "Trans-Jordan", literally the land on the other side of the Jordan River, an exempting Trans-Jordan from the Zionist declaration applied to the rest of Palestine. [55]
Lev Kamenev was named as the "acting president of the cabinet of ministers", equivalent to a Prime Minister of Soviet Russia by decree of the head of state,
Mikhail Kalinin, the chairman of the executive committee. Kamenev acted in place of the ailing
Vladimir Lenin, the Communist Party First Secretary who had also served in the government as the premier.[56]
Henry Ford shut down his production plants indefinitely, leaving 100,000 workers idle, because he did not want to pay
profiteers in the coal and steel industry.[57][58]
The
Hall–Mills murder case began when Episcopal priest Edward Hall, and Eleanor Mills, a member of choir with whom he was having an affair, were found murdered outside of
Brunswick, New Jersey, two days after they went missing.[59] The case led to one of the most sensational trials of the 1920s.[60]
The
Scholastic Corporation, founded in the U.S. by journalist Maurice R. Robinson in 1920, published its first issue of the nationally-distributed periodical for high school students, Scholastic Magazine, and would go on to expand its media offerings to books, book clubs, recordings, television shows and films.[61]
Born:
Janis Paige (stage name for Donna Mae Tjaden), American film, stage and TV actress; in
Tacoma, Washington (alive in 2024)
Thomas J. Gary, U.S. Navy seaman who rescued four wounded men during the attack on Pearl Harbor before being killed in the attack; in
Texas City, Texas (d. 1941)
Three organizations in
Puerto Rico, all committed to independence of the territory from the United States, merged to form the
Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico (Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico or PNPR). [63] The leaders of the
Independence Association, the Nationalist Association of Puerto Rico and the Nationalist Youth banded together as a unified organization under the administration of Independence Association president
José Coll y Cuchí.
The
Kansas City Speedway held its inaugural race, won by
Tommy Milton. The race was marred by tragedy when driver
Roscoe Sarles (who had finished second in the 1921 Indianapolis 500) was killed in a fiery crash .[64][65]
Greek Prime Minister
Anastasios Charalambis resigned one day after taking office as King Constantine was forced to abdicate.
Sotirios Krokidas was appointed as the new premier by the military government.
Born:
Marianne Cohn, German-born French Resistance fighter known for helping Jewish children escape France during the Nazi occupation and for her poem "Je trahirai demain" ("Tomorrow, I will betray"); in
Mannheim (beaten to death, 1944)
Agnès de La Barre de Nanteuil, French Resistance fighter known for helping Allied airmen escape from behind enemy lines; in
Neuilly-sur-Seine (died during deportation to Germany, 1944)
The Turkish Army completed the "
Great Offensive" (Büyük Taarruz), the three-week final push to rid Asia Minor of Greek occupational forces, winning the last battles of the Greco-Turkish War with the capture of Artake (
Erdek) and Pegaea (
Biga).
The Canadian government, led by
William Lyon Mackenzie King, informed Britain that authority from Parliament would be required before a Canadian force would be sent to defend the Dardanelles.[66]
The 47 miners trapped in the
Argonaut Mine in
Jackson, California on August 27 were found dead, twenty-two days after the August 27 accident.[67] The recovery team from the U.S. Bureau of Mines found that the miners had built a wall and stuffed it with their clothing in an attempt to make an airtight block of carbon monoxide 4,350 feet (1,330 m) below the surface , "Find 47 Men Dead in Argonaut Mine; Trapped 22 Days", The New York Times, September 19, 1922, p. 1
The engagement of the Germany's deposed former Kaiser,
Wilhelm II, to
Hermine Reuss of Greiz was announced. The news was neither popular among his sons nor within monarchist circles, who found it distasteful that he remarry only a year after the death of his
first wife.[68][69]
The
New York Yankees defeated the
St. Louis Browns, 3 to 2, to win a three-game series at St. Louis that ultimately decided the pennant winner of the American League. [70] Going into the game, the Yankees had a record of 87-56 and the Browns 87-57. [71] At season's end, the Yankees were 94-60 and the Browns 93-61. [72]
September 19, 1922 (Tuesday)
Several hundred of Greek residents of
Cunda Island were massacred as the Turkish Army invaded and reclaimed the area. Surviving children were spared and sent to orphanages.[73]
U.S. President
Warren G. Harding vetoed a version of the
World War Adjusted Compensation Act, popularly referred to as the "Bonus Bill", and sent it back to Congress, with an explanation that "it establishes the very dangerous precedent of creating a treasury covenant to pay which puts a burden ... upon the American people, not to discharge an obligation, which the government always must pay, but to bestow a bonus which the soldiers themselves, while serving in the
World War, did not expect."[74]
The
Fordney–McCumber Tariff Act was passed in the United States, creating the highest tariff rates in American history.[75]
Born: Harvey D. Strassman, American psychiatrist and Korean War veteran known for documenting
posttraumatic stress disorder after interviews with former POWs, published in his 1956 article " "A Prisoner of War Syndrome: Apathy as a Reaction to Severe Stress" in American Journal of Psychiatry; in
Chicago (d. 2011)
September 20, 1922 (Wednesday)
The
United States Senate fell 4 votes shy of the two-thirds majority required to override
President Harding's veto of the Soldier's Bonus Bill.,[76] despite Harding's own prediction that the bill would be passed anyway. The House of Representatives had voted overwhelmingly, 258 to 54, to override the veto. In the Senate, with only 72 senators present and 48 votes necessary for the two-thirds requirement, the vote to override was 44 to 28.[77]
A press conference was held in New York to announce the formation of a new company, with a one million dollar initial investment, to market and develop "a process of coloring motion pictures in their natural tints", invented by chemical engineer
Daniel Frost Comstock of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company, called
Techni Color, Inc., would become the dominant supplier for color film during most of the 20th century. Reporters were invited to a private showing of a demonstration film to take place the next day, and a public display was promised for October.[78]
Born: Leslie Buck, Slovak-born American businessman who invented the popular
Anthoracoffee cup popular in Greek restaurants; as Laszlo Büch in
Chust, Czechoslovakia (now Khust in the Ukraine) (d. 2010)
A
total eclipse of the Sun took place over the Indian Ocean and much of Australia, and was used to test Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.[80][81]
French aviator
Joseph Sadi-Lecointe became the first person to travel faster than 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), averaging that speed while flying a 100 kilometres (62 mi) course.[82][83]
The Ford plants re-opened after five days of idleness.[84]
Cleveland Indians manager
Tris Speaker conducted an unusual experiment by inserting 21 minor league players into a game against the visiting Boston Red Sox. Among the players he brought in was pitcher
Elmer "Doc" Hamann, who faced seven batters, none of whom were called out, giving Hamann the unusual distinction of an
Earned Run Average (ERA) of
infinity for his career. The Indians lost, 15 to 5.[85]
Born:
Lee Hee-ho, the First Lady of South Korea (as wife of South Korean President
Kim Dae-jung) from 1998 to 2003; in
Jongno,
Keijō,
Chōsen (now Seoul) (d. 2019)
Charles C. Rumsey, 43, American polo player and sculptor, was killed in an automobile accident after being thrown from the car in which he was a passenger.[86]
September 22, 1922 (Friday)
In a bout for boxing's world light heavyweight championship, held in
Paris between title holder
Georges Carpentier of France and Louis Mbarick Fall (who fought under the name "
Battling Siki") of Senegal, Siki was supposed to lose on purpose in return for not being injured by Carpentier. When Carpentier knocked Siki down in the fifth round, Siki knocked Carpentier out in the sixth round and (after a disqualiication by the referee that was reversed by the ringside judges), Siki became the new world champion.
Turkish nationalists seized
Ezine, Çanakkale in the Allied neutral zone of Turkey.[87]
The
Cable Act (named for its sponsor, Congressman
John L. Cable) was signed into law in the United States, allowing an American woman who married a non-U.S. citizen to keep her citizenship if her husband was eligible to become a citizen.[88]
The existence of
Dorothy Ruth, one-year-old daughter of
Babe Ruth, became public knowledge for the first time following weeks of sightings of Babe and wife Helen with the child around the New York hotel where they lived. Helen claimed that it had been kept a secret from the public because the baby had been ill since birth, but the truth was that the child was the product of one of Babe's extramarital affairs.[89][90]
The U.S. Army airship C-2 completed the first transcontinental airship flight across the United States, arriving at Ross Field in
Arcadia, California after having set off from Langley Field in Virginia on September 14.[91]
After three days of discussion in Paris the representatives of France, Great Britain and Italy sent Turkey a proposal to hold a conference for a peaceful settlement of the Chanak Crisis.[92]
September 24, 1922 (Sunday)
In the wake of the disastrous defeat in war against Turkey,
the Greek military rebelled against the government, with the formation of a Revolutionary Committee headed by Greek Army Colonels
Nikolaos Plastiras and
Stylianos Gonatas as representative of the army in
Lesvos, and Greek Navy Commander Dimitrios Fokas, who demanded the abdication of King Constantine and the resignation of the government of Prime Minister
Nikolaos Triantafyllakos and commandeered an invasion of Athens. The event is referred to in Greece as the "Revolution of 11 September 1922" (Epanástasi tis 11is Septemvríou 1922) because Greece still used the
Julian calendar and
did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until March 1, 1923.
The
Royal Navy destroyer
HMS Speedy collided with a tugboat while on maneuvers in the
Sea of Marmara within Turkey, and sank within seven minutes, drowning 10 of its crew. The other 87 crewmen were rescued.[93]
Turkey made a counteroffer to the Allied conference offer for peace in the Greco-Turkish War, saying it would not consent to the demilitarization of the
Sea of Marmara and
Thrace.[94]
The little-known
Senegalese fighter
Battling Siki stunned the boxing world and won the Light Heavyweight Title by knocking out
Georges Carpentier in the 6th round before almost 60,000 people in Paris.[95][96]
The memoirs of the former German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, were printed in 30 installments in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and other newspapers they had contracts with. The author was listed as "William Hohenzollern, Former German Emperor William II" after purchasing the rights on September 15. The first installment began with the ex-Kaiser's memories of the year
1878, and his rebuttal to certain accusations made against him ("it is stupid to accuse me of not having recognized the greatness of
Prince Bismarck (the longtime German Chancellor). The opposite is the truth. I revered and idolized him. Nor could it be otherwise.") [97]
Born:
Hans Waldmann, German Luftwaffe fighter ace who shot down 85 enemy aircraft during World War II before being killed in an accidental collision with another plane in his squadron; in
Braunschweig (d. 1945)
Hammer DeRoburt, politician in the Australian Trust Territory of Nauru and the first
President of Nauru from 1968 to 1976; (d. 1992)
Vadim Kirpichenko, Soviet intelligence agent and KGB official; in
Kursk, Russian SFSR (d. 2005)
Died:Carlo Caneva, 77, Italian Army General known for leading the conquest of Libya in a war against the Ottoman Empire [101]
September 26, 1922 (Tuesday)
The U.S. Bureau of Prohibition implemented a change in policy in order to limit enforcement of
prohibition laws to no further than
three miles of the American coastline, except in cases where vessels outside the limit were in communication with shore.[102]
U.S. Senator
Thomas E. Watson, 66, American and newspaper editor and member of the Senate for the U.S. state of Georgia since 1921 [103]
U.S. Representative
Charles R. Connell, 58, Congressman for Pennsylvania since 1921, died of pleurisy.[104]
General
Ernst von Hoeppner, 62, German Prussian cavalry officer who served as the commander of the Germany Army's Air Force, the
Luftstreitkräfte, during World War I.
Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer, former
Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom and one of the largest landholders in Britain, possessing 27,000 acres or more than 42 square miles or 109 square kilometers of land.[105]
King
Constantine of Greece abdicated the throne in the wake of Greece's defeat in the
Greco-Turkish War. He stepped down in favor of his son,
George II and the Greek cabinet resigned.[106][107] Constantine had previously abdicated in 1917 in favor of another son,
Alexander, then returned to the throne in 1920 upon Alexander's death.
Ireland's parliament, the
Dáil, voted to approve the "Special Powers Act", authorizing the Irish National Army to establish trials and to impose death sentences for activity in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty.[108][109]
The first
3D film, The Power of Love, premiered at the
Ambassador Hotel in
Los Angeles.[110] The silent film, made with a
stereoscopic camera with the
Anaglyph 3D system (one red lens and one green lens filming from different angles), was rendered in three dimensions with the use of spectacles with two different lenses. The finale consisted of two different endings showing at the same time, with the viewer given the option of closing one eye in order to see a happy ending or a tragic ending.
Born: Mikhail Shuydin, Soviet Russian comedian and circus entertainer; in Kazachya, RSFSR (d. 1983)
A bolt of lightning struck an arsenal of explosives and the blast killed 144 people at the Falconara Fort, located in Italy near
La Spezia.[111][112] According to the initial account from the Associated Press, the blast "destroyed everything within a radius of ten miles" after 1,500 tons of explosives went off despite being stored in deep tunnels.
Raisuli, leader of Moroccan rebels, surrendered to Spanish authorities after decades of living outside their reach.[113]
Reisenweber's Cafe, one of the largest and most popular restaurants and nightclubs in New York City, was closed permanently after being found to have violated the Prohibition
Volstead Act for continuing to serve liquor to its patrons.[114]
Joe Silver, American stage, film, radio and TV actor known for his deep voice; in
Chicago (d. 1989)
Died: William J. Seymour, 52, African-American Pentecostal preacher and evangelist, from a heart attack
September 29, 1922 (Friday)
The
De la Huerta–Lamont Treaty, signed on June 16 between Mexico and the United States, went into effect after ratification by the Congress of Mexico and the U.S. Senate.
Turkish nationalist leader
Mustafa Kemal agreed to meet the Allies for a conference.[115]
Died:Robert Pearce, 82, British politician who introduced the Daylight Saving Bill in 1908 to place Britain on daylight saving time
September 30, 1922 (Saturday)
In the wake of the capture by the Turkish Army recaptured the city of Kydoniae (renamed
Ayvalık) from Greece, Greek Orthodox priests in the city waited for evacuation by ship on the recommendation of their superior, the Metropolitan Bishop
Gregory Orologas.[118] The group was arrested at the harbor by order of the Turkish occupational force, and the assembled priests were executed three days later.
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^"Partido Nacionalista Puertorriqueño", by Maria Cristina Rodriguez, in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, ed. by Ana M. Lopez (Taylor & Francis, 2000) p. 1115
^"Driver Sarles Killed, 9 Hurt, at Kansas City". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 18, 1922. p. 1.
^"Sarles, Auto Racer, Is Burned to Death In Kansas City Contest Won by Milton", The New York Times, September 18, 1922, p. 1
^"Canada Holds Up Reply to London Call for Troops". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 19, 1922. p. 7.
^Doherty, Edward (September 19, 1922). "Find All Miners Dead". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
^"Ex-Kaiser to Wed Despite Sons' Opposition". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 19, 1922. p. 1.
^Brown, Cyril (September 20, 1922). "Wedding Bells to End Former Kaiser's Hopes". Chicago Daily Tribune: 7.
^"Yanks Clinch Deciding Game of St. Louis Series, 3 to 2, in Ninth", New York Herald, September 20, 1922, p. 12
^"Yesterday's Baseball— Standing of the Clubs", Boston Globe, September 19, 1922 p. 7
^"Browns Finish Season Only One Game Behind Yankee Pennant Crew", St. Louis Star, October 2, 1922
^Bruce Clark, Twice a Stranger: the mass expulsion that forged modern Greece and Turkey (Harvard University Press, 2006) p. 25
^"Bonus Killed in Senate, Lacks 4 Votes, After Hours Overrides Veto, 258 to 54; Bill Believed Dead for Harding's Term", The New York Times, September 21, 1922, p.1
^"$1,000,000 Company Will Color Movies; Inventor Is Daniel Frost Comstock— Big Dye Men on Board of Directors", The New York Times, September 21, 1922, p.1
^"Obtain Fine Views of Sun's Eclipse; Results Are Said to Favor the Einstein Theory, but Reports Will Be Long Delayed", The New York Times, September 22, 1922, p. 3
^"Sadi Lecointe Flies 213 Miles an Hour— French Aviator Regains World Speed Record, Recently Taken From Him by an Italian", The New York Times, September 22, 1922, p. 3
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^"Destroyer Sinks, 10 Drown— British Warship and Dutch Trawler Crash in Sea of Marmora", The New York Times, September 25, 1922, p. 2
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The
Reichsbank in Germany was closed by police following a
bank run by employers looking to meet overdue payrolls.[1]
The
Constitution of Mandatory Palestine was put into effect by publication, providing for the British Mandate in what is now Israel and Jordan, to be governed by a British High Commissioner and an elected Legislative Council and to have a civil and religious court system. [2]
An agreement to end the nationwide anthracite coal mining strike in the United States was reached between the United Mine Workers of America and the Policy Committee of the Anthracite Coal Operators, by extending the terms of the contract between labor and management to at least August 31, 1923. The compromise came after the intervention of U.S. President Harding, who had appealed to both sides "in the name of public welfare" to accept the proposal to end the strike in time for the onset of winter, as made by the two U.S. Senators for Pennsylvania,
David A. Reed and
George W. Pepper, both of whom had been in office for less than a year.[3]
German President
Friedrich Ebert declared the "
Deutschlandlied" to be the
national anthem of
Germany.[4] The lyrics were limited to the song's third stanza ("Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit, Für das deutsche Vaterland!"). The song would be used in Nazi Germany (with the words of the more militant first stanza, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt,") until the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. The "Deutschlandlied" would be made the anthem of West Germany on May 2, 1952 and continued after the reunification of Germany in 1989.
September 3, 1922 (Sunday)
The Austrian government issued a decree forbidding, except in the city of
Vienna, the sale of alcohol in restaurants after 10 p.m., and in bars after midnight. Newspapers called it a first step towards
prohibition.[5]
Died: Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, 31, Austrian heiress and mother of the seven children who would become the
Trapp Family singers who were the subject of the musical The Sound of Music, died of
scarlet fever. In 1927, Agathe's widowed husband, former submarine commander
Georg von Trapp, would remarry, taking the children's teacher,
Maria Kutschera (portrayed in film by Julie Andrews) as his wife.
John Hessin Clarke, an Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court, announced his resignation, to take effect on September 18, his 65th birthday.[8] Clarke had only been on the Court for six years, and friends said that he would work toward bringing the United States into the League of Nations.[9]
James Young, 40, Scottish footballer, was killed in a motorcycle accident
September 5, 1922 (Tuesday)
A mine explosion at Haig Colliery in
Whitehaven, England killed 39 miners.[10]
In a telegram to prime minister
Rauf Orbay,
Turkey's President
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk asserted the Turkish claim to
East Thrace (Trakya) as part of its conditions of the settlement of the war with Greece, to take back territory that had been ceded to Greece in 1920. [11] The areas that came back under Turkish control under the 1923
Treaty of Lausanne would include
Edirne (Adrianople) and
İzmir (Smyrna).
A new law went into effect in
Poland as part of an effort to stop the spread of venereal diseases, amending the Basic Sanitation Law to regulate
houses of prostitution.[12]
Brazil celebrated its
100th birthday with a twenty-one gun salute at midnight and parading in the streets of
Rio de Janeiro throughout the day.[14]
Man Singh II, the 10-year-old adopted son of
Madho Singh II, became the
Maharaja of Jaipur upon Madho II's death. He would retain the honorary title after India's independence in 1947 and would receive a pension until his death in 1970.
Mary Katherine Campbell of
Columbus, Ohio won the second annual
Miss America pageant, competing as one of 58 "intercity" contestants in
Atlantic City, New Jersey, and in the process, "triumphing over more than 500 amateur and professional rivals." [16] Under the rules of the competition, the winners of the three classes of competitors (intercity, amateur and professional beauties) went up against the reigning Miss America,
Margaret Gorman, and the judges picked the winner from the four finalists. Campbell, who had won the intercity competition as "Miss Columbus", was selected as the winner of $5,000 and the Golden Mermaid Trophy.
At least 30 people, all women and children who were passengers on the German steamship Hammonia, died when the two lifeboats that they were in overturned, after they safely evacuated the ship as it foundered off the coast of Spain. The passenger list went down with the ship, but the ship captain believed that there were 365 passengers and 192 crew for a total of 537 people on board. Another steamship, Kinfauns Castle, rescued 383 survivors and its captain said that he witnessed 80 people drowning, while other observers put the number of dead as high as 150.[23][24]
The
Gormanston Camp for captured Irish Republicans was opened at the site of a former
Royal Irish Constabulary base, and housed over 1,000 prisoners at its height, finally closing at the end of 1923. [25]
Died: Annie Royle Taylor, 66, English explorer and evangelist who, in 1892, was the first Western woman to visit
Tibet
September 10, 1922 (Sunday)
Film producer
Hal Roach introduced the first of 220 short films in the Our Gang series, as the
Pathé company released the silent 20-minute feature "
One Terrible Day", directed by
Robert F. McGowan and
Tom McNamara. The series of movies about the adventures of a gang of children, was shown before feature films and continued until 1944, and then was syndicated on television from 1955 onward as The Little Rascals.
The New York World published an interview by
Clare Sheridan with English writer
Rudyard Kipling in which he was quoted as saying that America had come into the war "two years, seven months and four days too late" and had "quit the day of the Armistice, without waiting to see the thing through." Kipling believed he had made the remarks in the context of a private conversation and so in the media uproar that ensued he publicly denied ever giving Sheridan an interview at all.[26][27]
The
British Mandate of Palestine began as the oath of office for the High Commissioner of Palestine was administered to
Sir Herbert Samuel, as well as to the Commander in Chief of British forces there. The ceremony took place in Jerusalem in the presence of
Lord Allenby, the British Army Field marshal who liberated Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, and by the Emir Abdullah of Jordan.[29]
Turkish troops who had taken over the Smyrna Province from Greece carried out a massacre of Armenian residents under the direction of the new Turkish Governor,
Nureddin Pasha, according to a statement made afterwards by a British eyewitness who had been able to flee the area. Businessman Roy Treloar said that Nureddin "commenced a systematic hunting down of Armenians, who were gathered in batches of 100, taken to
Konak and murdered."[31]
The former
Prime Minister of Greece,
Eleftherios Venizelos, announced from Paris that he would form a government only if King Constantine abdicated and if Prime Minister
Nikolaos Triantaphyllakos and his government resigned.[32] Although the
"September 11 Revolution" in Greece is sometimes mistakenly listed as having happened on this day, Greece at the time was still operating under the Julian calendar, and the revolution took place on 24th September according to the Gregorian calendar recognized by the rest of the world.
Hoping to prevent a split within the Communist Party leadership in the Soviet Union,
Vladimir Lenin proposed that
Leon Trotsky, alongside Lev Kamenev, would become Lenin's deputy on Sovnarkom, the
Council of People's Commissars. Trotsky declined to accept the invitation. [33]
One of the predecessors of
Melbourne, Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper, The Sun News-Pictorial, was launched by Hugh Dennison as "a morning tabloid with a light touch and heavy with photographs." publication. It would merge with
The Herald, effective October 8, 1990. [34]
The
Treaty of Kars was ratified in
Yerevan, setting the boundary between
Turkey and the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, which would continue as the Turkish-Soviet boundary afterward. [35]
September 12, 1922 (Tuesday)
The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States voted to alter the
Book of Common Prayer language for
wedding vows to no longer require the bride to agree to "obey" her husband. The decision to revise the Common Prayer treatise was approved at the meeting in
Portland, Oregon by a vote of 36 to 27.[36]
Pola Negri (stage name for Apolonia Chalupec), signed by
Paramount Pictures after having been a star for Germany's
UFA studios, arrived in the United States on the liner Majestic as the first film actress from continental Europe to be promoted in the U.S. [38]
Ascension Island unified politically with the island of
Saint Helena, 800 miles (1,300 km) away, as a single British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. [39]
A fire killed more than 10,000 people in the port city of
Smyrna (now İzmir), which had been recaptured from Greece four days earlier by Turkish troops to end the
Greco-Turkish War.[40] According to contemporary accounts from witnesses evacuated from the area, Turkish troops set multiple fires to the Basmane neighborhood in the Armenian quarter of the city, and the fire was spread by windy weather.[41]
The highest weather temperature ever recorded on Earth, 58.0 °C (136.4 °F), was measured at
El Azizia in
Libya near
Tripoli, breaking the record of 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) that had been recorded in
Death Valley in the United States on July 10, 1913. The record would stand until 2012, when the
World Meteorological Organization reviewed the data and concluded that the 58-degree centigrade reading had been taken by an inexperienced observer who had recorded a temperature seven degrees hotter than nearby areas.[42]
The
nationwide railroad strike in the U.S. began to wind down as about one-third of the country's railways reached an agreement with the shopmen.[43] The agreement meant the restoration of service for at least 30 of the 202 Class 1 railroad lines including the New York Central; the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul; the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; the Baltimore & Ohio; the Seaboard Line and the Norfolk & Western.[44]
France and Poland signed a ten-year military convention pledging to defend each other in the event of an attack.[45]
The "
Straw Hat Riot" broke out in New York City after a gang of youths in Manhattan assaulted dockworkers who were still wearing straw hats after Labor Day. The tradition in the U.S. at the time had not only been to switch from straw hats to felt hats in the autumn, but to knock the hats off of the heads of people who failed to make the switch. Publicity about the incident led to copycat attacks by other gangs over the next several days.[46]
September 14, 1922 (Thursday)
The
Argentine Polo Association (Asociación Argentina de Polo or AAP), the governing body for one of the most popular sports in Argentina, was founded in
Buenos Aires, with the goal of creating a national team for international competitions.[47]
Johnny Buff (ring name for John Lisky), holder of the American flyweight boxing championship in a weight class with no world title, lost the U.S. title to Filipino challenger
Pancho Villa (Francisco Villaruel) at Ebbets Field in New York City."Johnny Buff Loses Flyweight Title to Pancho Villa", by Marshall Hunt, Daily News (New York), September 16, 1922, p. 25
The
Chanak Crisis began as the British government threatened Turkey with war as Turkish forces approached the neutral zone at
Çanakkale.[21] Britain also appealed to the
British Dominions to lend their assistance.[45]
The
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and two associates upheld the suspension of
habeas corpus in the country due to the state of war and denied an application to free 5,000 prisoners held by the military.[49]
On the same day,
J. William Billes and
Alfred J. Billes invested their combined savings to purchase Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd. for the purpose of selling tires at a discount by buying at low cost during the winter and marking up the prices to sell at a profit in the summer.[50] The company would be rebranded as
Canadian Tire Corporation Ltd. in 1927.
The
Council on Foreign Relations, based in the U.S., began publication of its bimonthly magazine, Foreign Affairs: An American Quarterly Review, with Volume 1, Number 1 dated September 15, 1922. The first article, after Archibald Cary Coolidge's editorial statement, was "A Requisite for the Success of Popular Diplomacy", by former U.S. Secretary of State
Elihu Root.[51]
German Chancellor
Joseph Wirth declared "Bread first, reparations second."[52]
The
Turkish Orthodox Church, a denomination for the minority Christian population in the predominantly Muslim nation of Turkey, was founded in
Kayseri in Anatolia as nationalist denomination that conducted services in the
Turkish language and provided for the continuation of the Christian faith.[53] Pavlos Karahisarithis, a Turkish bishop, became the first patriarch of the denomination, which was not recognized within the worldwide Orthodox Christian organization, and took the regnal name of
Papa Eftim I.
Vasil Laçi, Albanian independence activist who attempted to kill King
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy during the Italian occupation of Albania; in
Piqeras (executed, 1941)
Died: Mary Ann Booth, 79, American scientist and specialist in microscopic photography of microorganisms
September 16, 1922 (Saturday)
British troops with heavy artillery landed in Turkey to prevent the Turks from taking control of the Dardanelles or Bosporous Straits, which connected the
Black Sea to the Aegean Sea and then to the Mediterranean Sea.[54]
The
League of Nations approved the
Trans-Jordan memorandum setting the boundaries of the
Kingdom of Jordan, with the
Jordan River setting the border between the Palestine mandate (and future nation of Israel) and "Trans-Jordan", literally the land on the other side of the Jordan River, an exempting Trans-Jordan from the Zionist declaration applied to the rest of Palestine. [55]
Lev Kamenev was named as the "acting president of the cabinet of ministers", equivalent to a Prime Minister of Soviet Russia by decree of the head of state,
Mikhail Kalinin, the chairman of the executive committee. Kamenev acted in place of the ailing
Vladimir Lenin, the Communist Party First Secretary who had also served in the government as the premier.[56]
Henry Ford shut down his production plants indefinitely, leaving 100,000 workers idle, because he did not want to pay
profiteers in the coal and steel industry.[57][58]
The
Hall–Mills murder case began when Episcopal priest Edward Hall, and Eleanor Mills, a member of choir with whom he was having an affair, were found murdered outside of
Brunswick, New Jersey, two days after they went missing.[59] The case led to one of the most sensational trials of the 1920s.[60]
The
Scholastic Corporation, founded in the U.S. by journalist Maurice R. Robinson in 1920, published its first issue of the nationally-distributed periodical for high school students, Scholastic Magazine, and would go on to expand its media offerings to books, book clubs, recordings, television shows and films.[61]
Born:
Janis Paige (stage name for Donna Mae Tjaden), American film, stage and TV actress; in
Tacoma, Washington (alive in 2024)
Thomas J. Gary, U.S. Navy seaman who rescued four wounded men during the attack on Pearl Harbor before being killed in the attack; in
Texas City, Texas (d. 1941)
Three organizations in
Puerto Rico, all committed to independence of the territory from the United States, merged to form the
Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico (Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico or PNPR). [63] The leaders of the
Independence Association, the Nationalist Association of Puerto Rico and the Nationalist Youth banded together as a unified organization under the administration of Independence Association president
José Coll y Cuchí.
The
Kansas City Speedway held its inaugural race, won by
Tommy Milton. The race was marred by tragedy when driver
Roscoe Sarles (who had finished second in the 1921 Indianapolis 500) was killed in a fiery crash .[64][65]
Greek Prime Minister
Anastasios Charalambis resigned one day after taking office as King Constantine was forced to abdicate.
Sotirios Krokidas was appointed as the new premier by the military government.
Born:
Marianne Cohn, German-born French Resistance fighter known for helping Jewish children escape France during the Nazi occupation and for her poem "Je trahirai demain" ("Tomorrow, I will betray"); in
Mannheim (beaten to death, 1944)
Agnès de La Barre de Nanteuil, French Resistance fighter known for helping Allied airmen escape from behind enemy lines; in
Neuilly-sur-Seine (died during deportation to Germany, 1944)
The Turkish Army completed the "
Great Offensive" (Büyük Taarruz), the three-week final push to rid Asia Minor of Greek occupational forces, winning the last battles of the Greco-Turkish War with the capture of Artake (
Erdek) and Pegaea (
Biga).
The Canadian government, led by
William Lyon Mackenzie King, informed Britain that authority from Parliament would be required before a Canadian force would be sent to defend the Dardanelles.[66]
The 47 miners trapped in the
Argonaut Mine in
Jackson, California on August 27 were found dead, twenty-two days after the August 27 accident.[67] The recovery team from the U.S. Bureau of Mines found that the miners had built a wall and stuffed it with their clothing in an attempt to make an airtight block of carbon monoxide 4,350 feet (1,330 m) below the surface , "Find 47 Men Dead in Argonaut Mine; Trapped 22 Days", The New York Times, September 19, 1922, p. 1
The engagement of the Germany's deposed former Kaiser,
Wilhelm II, to
Hermine Reuss of Greiz was announced. The news was neither popular among his sons nor within monarchist circles, who found it distasteful that he remarry only a year after the death of his
first wife.[68][69]
The
New York Yankees defeated the
St. Louis Browns, 3 to 2, to win a three-game series at St. Louis that ultimately decided the pennant winner of the American League. [70] Going into the game, the Yankees had a record of 87-56 and the Browns 87-57. [71] At season's end, the Yankees were 94-60 and the Browns 93-61. [72]
September 19, 1922 (Tuesday)
Several hundred of Greek residents of
Cunda Island were massacred as the Turkish Army invaded and reclaimed the area. Surviving children were spared and sent to orphanages.[73]
U.S. President
Warren G. Harding vetoed a version of the
World War Adjusted Compensation Act, popularly referred to as the "Bonus Bill", and sent it back to Congress, with an explanation that "it establishes the very dangerous precedent of creating a treasury covenant to pay which puts a burden ... upon the American people, not to discharge an obligation, which the government always must pay, but to bestow a bonus which the soldiers themselves, while serving in the
World War, did not expect."[74]
The
Fordney–McCumber Tariff Act was passed in the United States, creating the highest tariff rates in American history.[75]
Born: Harvey D. Strassman, American psychiatrist and Korean War veteran known for documenting
posttraumatic stress disorder after interviews with former POWs, published in his 1956 article " "A Prisoner of War Syndrome: Apathy as a Reaction to Severe Stress" in American Journal of Psychiatry; in
Chicago (d. 2011)
September 20, 1922 (Wednesday)
The
United States Senate fell 4 votes shy of the two-thirds majority required to override
President Harding's veto of the Soldier's Bonus Bill.,[76] despite Harding's own prediction that the bill would be passed anyway. The House of Representatives had voted overwhelmingly, 258 to 54, to override the veto. In the Senate, with only 72 senators present and 48 votes necessary for the two-thirds requirement, the vote to override was 44 to 28.[77]
A press conference was held in New York to announce the formation of a new company, with a one million dollar initial investment, to market and develop "a process of coloring motion pictures in their natural tints", invented by chemical engineer
Daniel Frost Comstock of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company, called
Techni Color, Inc., would become the dominant supplier for color film during most of the 20th century. Reporters were invited to a private showing of a demonstration film to take place the next day, and a public display was promised for October.[78]
Born: Leslie Buck, Slovak-born American businessman who invented the popular
Anthoracoffee cup popular in Greek restaurants; as Laszlo Büch in
Chust, Czechoslovakia (now Khust in the Ukraine) (d. 2010)
A
total eclipse of the Sun took place over the Indian Ocean and much of Australia, and was used to test Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.[80][81]
French aviator
Joseph Sadi-Lecointe became the first person to travel faster than 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), averaging that speed while flying a 100 kilometres (62 mi) course.[82][83]
The Ford plants re-opened after five days of idleness.[84]
Cleveland Indians manager
Tris Speaker conducted an unusual experiment by inserting 21 minor league players into a game against the visiting Boston Red Sox. Among the players he brought in was pitcher
Elmer "Doc" Hamann, who faced seven batters, none of whom were called out, giving Hamann the unusual distinction of an
Earned Run Average (ERA) of
infinity for his career. The Indians lost, 15 to 5.[85]
Born:
Lee Hee-ho, the First Lady of South Korea (as wife of South Korean President
Kim Dae-jung) from 1998 to 2003; in
Jongno,
Keijō,
Chōsen (now Seoul) (d. 2019)
Charles C. Rumsey, 43, American polo player and sculptor, was killed in an automobile accident after being thrown from the car in which he was a passenger.[86]
September 22, 1922 (Friday)
In a bout for boxing's world light heavyweight championship, held in
Paris between title holder
Georges Carpentier of France and Louis Mbarick Fall (who fought under the name "
Battling Siki") of Senegal, Siki was supposed to lose on purpose in return for not being injured by Carpentier. When Carpentier knocked Siki down in the fifth round, Siki knocked Carpentier out in the sixth round and (after a disqualiication by the referee that was reversed by the ringside judges), Siki became the new world champion.
Turkish nationalists seized
Ezine, Çanakkale in the Allied neutral zone of Turkey.[87]
The
Cable Act (named for its sponsor, Congressman
John L. Cable) was signed into law in the United States, allowing an American woman who married a non-U.S. citizen to keep her citizenship if her husband was eligible to become a citizen.[88]
The existence of
Dorothy Ruth, one-year-old daughter of
Babe Ruth, became public knowledge for the first time following weeks of sightings of Babe and wife Helen with the child around the New York hotel where they lived. Helen claimed that it had been kept a secret from the public because the baby had been ill since birth, but the truth was that the child was the product of one of Babe's extramarital affairs.[89][90]
The U.S. Army airship C-2 completed the first transcontinental airship flight across the United States, arriving at Ross Field in
Arcadia, California after having set off from Langley Field in Virginia on September 14.[91]
After three days of discussion in Paris the representatives of France, Great Britain and Italy sent Turkey a proposal to hold a conference for a peaceful settlement of the Chanak Crisis.[92]
September 24, 1922 (Sunday)
In the wake of the disastrous defeat in war against Turkey,
the Greek military rebelled against the government, with the formation of a Revolutionary Committee headed by Greek Army Colonels
Nikolaos Plastiras and
Stylianos Gonatas as representative of the army in
Lesvos, and Greek Navy Commander Dimitrios Fokas, who demanded the abdication of King Constantine and the resignation of the government of Prime Minister
Nikolaos Triantafyllakos and commandeered an invasion of Athens. The event is referred to in Greece as the "Revolution of 11 September 1922" (Epanástasi tis 11is Septemvríou 1922) because Greece still used the
Julian calendar and
did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until March 1, 1923.
The
Royal Navy destroyer
HMS Speedy collided with a tugboat while on maneuvers in the
Sea of Marmara within Turkey, and sank within seven minutes, drowning 10 of its crew. The other 87 crewmen were rescued.[93]
Turkey made a counteroffer to the Allied conference offer for peace in the Greco-Turkish War, saying it would not consent to the demilitarization of the
Sea of Marmara and
Thrace.[94]
The little-known
Senegalese fighter
Battling Siki stunned the boxing world and won the Light Heavyweight Title by knocking out
Georges Carpentier in the 6th round before almost 60,000 people in Paris.[95][96]
The memoirs of the former German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, were printed in 30 installments in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and other newspapers they had contracts with. The author was listed as "William Hohenzollern, Former German Emperor William II" after purchasing the rights on September 15. The first installment began with the ex-Kaiser's memories of the year
1878, and his rebuttal to certain accusations made against him ("it is stupid to accuse me of not having recognized the greatness of
Prince Bismarck (the longtime German Chancellor). The opposite is the truth. I revered and idolized him. Nor could it be otherwise.") [97]
Born:
Hans Waldmann, German Luftwaffe fighter ace who shot down 85 enemy aircraft during World War II before being killed in an accidental collision with another plane in his squadron; in
Braunschweig (d. 1945)
Hammer DeRoburt, politician in the Australian Trust Territory of Nauru and the first
President of Nauru from 1968 to 1976; (d. 1992)
Vadim Kirpichenko, Soviet intelligence agent and KGB official; in
Kursk, Russian SFSR (d. 2005)
Died:Carlo Caneva, 77, Italian Army General known for leading the conquest of Libya in a war against the Ottoman Empire [101]
September 26, 1922 (Tuesday)
The U.S. Bureau of Prohibition implemented a change in policy in order to limit enforcement of
prohibition laws to no further than
three miles of the American coastline, except in cases where vessels outside the limit were in communication with shore.[102]
U.S. Senator
Thomas E. Watson, 66, American and newspaper editor and member of the Senate for the U.S. state of Georgia since 1921 [103]
U.S. Representative
Charles R. Connell, 58, Congressman for Pennsylvania since 1921, died of pleurisy.[104]
General
Ernst von Hoeppner, 62, German Prussian cavalry officer who served as the commander of the Germany Army's Air Force, the
Luftstreitkräfte, during World War I.
Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer, former
Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom and one of the largest landholders in Britain, possessing 27,000 acres or more than 42 square miles or 109 square kilometers of land.[105]
King
Constantine of Greece abdicated the throne in the wake of Greece's defeat in the
Greco-Turkish War. He stepped down in favor of his son,
George II and the Greek cabinet resigned.[106][107] Constantine had previously abdicated in 1917 in favor of another son,
Alexander, then returned to the throne in 1920 upon Alexander's death.
Ireland's parliament, the
Dáil, voted to approve the "Special Powers Act", authorizing the Irish National Army to establish trials and to impose death sentences for activity in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty.[108][109]
The first
3D film, The Power of Love, premiered at the
Ambassador Hotel in
Los Angeles.[110] The silent film, made with a
stereoscopic camera with the
Anaglyph 3D system (one red lens and one green lens filming from different angles), was rendered in three dimensions with the use of spectacles with two different lenses. The finale consisted of two different endings showing at the same time, with the viewer given the option of closing one eye in order to see a happy ending or a tragic ending.
Born: Mikhail Shuydin, Soviet Russian comedian and circus entertainer; in Kazachya, RSFSR (d. 1983)
A bolt of lightning struck an arsenal of explosives and the blast killed 144 people at the Falconara Fort, located in Italy near
La Spezia.[111][112] According to the initial account from the Associated Press, the blast "destroyed everything within a radius of ten miles" after 1,500 tons of explosives went off despite being stored in deep tunnels.
Raisuli, leader of Moroccan rebels, surrendered to Spanish authorities after decades of living outside their reach.[113]
Reisenweber's Cafe, one of the largest and most popular restaurants and nightclubs in New York City, was closed permanently after being found to have violated the Prohibition
Volstead Act for continuing to serve liquor to its patrons.[114]
Joe Silver, American stage, film, radio and TV actor known for his deep voice; in
Chicago (d. 1989)
Died: William J. Seymour, 52, African-American Pentecostal preacher and evangelist, from a heart attack
September 29, 1922 (Friday)
The
De la Huerta–Lamont Treaty, signed on June 16 between Mexico and the United States, went into effect after ratification by the Congress of Mexico and the U.S. Senate.
Turkish nationalist leader
Mustafa Kemal agreed to meet the Allies for a conference.[115]
Died:Robert Pearce, 82, British politician who introduced the Daylight Saving Bill in 1908 to place Britain on daylight saving time
September 30, 1922 (Saturday)
In the wake of the capture by the Turkish Army recaptured the city of Kydoniae (renamed
Ayvalık) from Greece, Greek Orthodox priests in the city waited for evacuation by ship on the recommendation of their superior, the Metropolitan Bishop
Gregory Orologas.[118] The group was arrested at the harbor by order of the Turkish occupational force, and the assembled priests were executed three days later.
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^"$1,000,000 Company Will Color Movies; Inventor Is Daniel Frost Comstock— Big Dye Men on Board of Directors", The New York Times, September 21, 1922, p.1
^"Obtain Fine Views of Sun's Eclipse; Results Are Said to Favor the Einstein Theory, but Reports Will Be Long Delayed", The New York Times, September 22, 1922, p. 3
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