The following events occurred in June 1922:
The Royal Ulster Constabulary was formed.
Rudolph Valentino appeared in Los Angeles court for a preliminary hearing on the bigamy charge against him. The courtroom was packed with spectators, mostly women, eager to see the screen idol.
Born: Povel Ramel, entertainer, in Östermalm, Sweden (d. 2007)
Zhou Ziqi became the acting President of the Republic of China.
Aimo Cajander became Prime Minister of Finland.
Japan ratified the Shandong Treaty which improved relations with China.
Born: Charlie Sifford, golfer, in Charlotte, North Carolina (d. 2015)
Died: Take Ionescu, 63, Romanian politician and writer
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen set out from Seattle on an expedition to the North Pole.
The Igor Stravinsky opera buffa Mavra premiered at the Paris Opera.
The steamer Villa Franca exploded and sank near Hohenau, Paraguay with the loss of about 80 lives.
Died: W. H. R. Rivers, 58, English doctor
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Wyoming v. Colorado.
H. P. Lovecraft wrote "What the Moon Brings".
The U.S. state of Rhode Island licensed its first radio station, WEAN in Providence.
The Philippine legislative election was held. In the House of Representatives elections, the ruling Nacionalista Party won although it was split into two blocs.
Died: Richard A. Ballinger, 63, mayor of Seattle and U.S. Secretary of the Interior; Lillian Russell, 61, American actress and singer
The British Mount Everest expedition was called off after an avalanche killed 7 sherpas.
King Alexander of Yugoslavia married Maria of Romania in a small cathedral in Belgrade. 100,000 people turned out in the rain to watch the royal procession through the streets.
In Soviet Russia, the Council of People's Commissars rejected the commercial treaty signed with Italy on May 24.
The month-long wave of murders and lynchings in Kirven, Texas finally ended, but many African-Americans left the area and Kirven has been a virtual ghost town ever since.
Pillory won the Belmont Stakes horse race.
The Mabini Academy was founded in the Philippines.
Born: Robert Alan Aurthur, screenwriter, director and producer, in New York City (d. 1978); Judy Garland, actress and singer, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota (d. 1969)
An afternoon storm in New York City killed about 45 people. 7 of them were killed when a ferris wheel in the Bronx collapsed.
Li Yuanhong became President of the Republic of China.
The documentary film Nanook of the North was released.
Katō Tomosaburō became 12th Prime Minister of Japan.
Died: Wolfgang Kapp, 63, Prussian civil servant, journalist and nominal leader of the Kapp Putsch (cancer)
France granted Austria a loan of 55 million francs.
Born: Mel Parnell, baseball player, in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2012)
Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. president to be heard on the radio, addressing a crowd at the dedication of a memorial site for Francis Scott Key in Baltimore.
Died: Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard, 45, Indian-born British explorer, hunter and adventurer (sepsis)
The draft of the new Irish constitution was made public on the eve of elections. Women would be given the vote and the controversial Oath of Allegiance to the king was to be maintained.
Arverne, Queens was nearly leveled by a devastating fire that left 10,000 homeless.
The Irish general election was held in Southern Ireland. The Pro-Treaty faction of Sinn Féin led by Michael Collins won a plurality of seats.
The De la Huerta–Lamont Treaty was signed in Mexico.
Henry Berliner demonstrated a helicopter prototype at College Park, Maryland.
English motorist Malcolm Campbell set a new land speed record of 216.87 km (134.75 miles) per hour, but the international motorsport authority in Paris refused to recognize it as official because it was not recorded with the specified electrical measuring devices.
The First Zhili–Fengtian War officially ended in China with an armistice signed aboard the British cruiser HMS Curlew.
A Kurdish uprising began in Iraq.
Born: Claude Helffer, pianist, in Paris, France (d. 2004)
Died: Jacobus Kapteyn, 71, Dutch astronomer
The New York Times reported that biochemist E.V. McCollum had isolated a new vitamin called Vitamin D which prevented rickets.
The U.S. Senate passed its annual naval appropriation bill, but defeated an amendment by William H. King to withdraw American troops from Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.
Born: Aage Bohr, nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate, in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2009)
Died: Hitachiyama Taniemon, 48, Japanese sumo wrestler
Polish regular troops entered Katowice in accordance with the Upper Silesia Agreement of May 15.
Died: Vittorio Monti, 54, Italian composer and conductor
The Herrin Massacre took place near Herrin, Illinois. Clashes between striking miners and strikebreakers resulted in 22 deaths.
The U.S. state of Arizona got its first licensed radio station, KFAD in Phoenix.
The Prince of Wales returned to London after an eight-month tour of the Far East.
Sir Henry Wilson was shot dead outside his home in Eaton Square in London. Two Irishmen were chased down and arrested but it was not clear whether they were acting on orders from outside Britain or not.
Born: Mona Lisa, film actress, in Tondo, Manila, Philippines
Died: Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, 58, British Army officer (assassinated)
London police arrested 20 men in connection with the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson.
Walter Hagen won the Open Championship, the first American-born winner of the golf tournament.
Martial law was declared in Berlin after Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau was assassinated outside his home by nationalist extremists.
Japan announced it would withdraw from all of Siberia except for Sakhalin Island.
In Munich, Adolf Hitler began serving his prison sentence for disturbing the peace and assaulting Otto Ballerstedt.
The American Professional Football Association changed its name to the National Football League.
Born: Tata Giacobetti, singer, in Rome, Italy (d. 1988)
Died: Walther Rathenau, 54, German Foreign Minister (assassinated); William Rockefeller, 81, American businessman and financier
The Centre Party won the Saar parliamentary election.
In a speech before the House of Commons, Secretary of State for the Colonies Winston Churchill warned the newly elected government in Southern Ireland that if it did not act to oust its rebels occupying the Four Courts, the British would.
Irish rebels kidnapped General JJ "Ginger" O'Connell.
King George V opened the Wimbledon Championships at their new site in Queen's Road.
The Hague Conference began in the Netherlands, aimed at settling the debt of Soviet Russia to the Allies.
Died: Albert I, Prince of Monaco, 73
Louis II became Prince of Monaco.
The United States extended formal recognition to Albania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Born: Eleanor Parker, actress, in Cedarville, Ohio (d. 2013)
Died: Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito, 54, Japanese prince
In Dublin, the National Army troops demanded the surrender of the anti-Treaty IRA garrison in the Four Courts. When the IRA rebels maintained their positions, the government troops launched an artillery attack. The Irish Civil War had begun.
Artur Śliwiński became Prime Minister of Poland.
Died: Velimir Khlebnikov, 36, Russian poet and playwright
The French government made 100 hectares of land at Vimy Ridge available to Canada free of taxation, to be used for a war memorial to the more than 60,000 Canadians killed in the Great War.
Born: Vasko Popa, poet, in Grebenac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (d. 1991)
There was an enormous explosion in the Four Courts after munitions were ignited by shelling. The IRA garrison surrendered at about 4:00 p.m.
The U.S. government agreed to end the American military occupation of the Dominican Republic and began making plans with Dominican officials to hold elections to establish a national government.
Died: Tiny Maxwell, 37, American football player and referee (injuries from auto accident)
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