by Peter & Jaxon

The year 1922 was a year of change. Many important things happened that would change the world. A year in which the United States launched their first aircraft carrier, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated, the man who invented the telephone died, King Tut's tomb was dug up, The USSR was formed, Mussolini became prime minister of Italy, Johnny Weissmuller swam 100 meters in under one minute and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches becomes popular.

• February 4-India's Mahatma Gandhi is arrested for leadership of a protest and is sentenced him to six years imprisonment.
• March-The USS Langley was placed in use at Norfolk, Virginia. The USS Langley was the United States first Aircraft Carrier.
• March 5- F.W. Murnau's classic vampire film, Nosferatu, is shown in Germany.
• March 6-Babe Ruth signs a three year contract with New York Yankees for salary of $52,000 a year. This was highest salary for a ballplayer up to 1922.
• March 25-Women's fashions deemed so revealing that Catholic Pope Pius XI urges a campaign against them.
• May 30-The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
• August 2-Alexander Graham Bell, the man who invented the modern day telephone died.
• Sept. 16-The "Murder of the Decade" takes place. Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall and a church choir leader Mrs. James Mills were found murdered on an abandoned farm. It was called "the tabloid story of the decade." No killers were found after the case reopened.
• October 3-Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia becomes the First Woman in the U. S. Senate.
• October 8-The New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in the 1922 World Series four games to zero.
• October 24- Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy and sent the Fascists to march on Rome. 
• November 2-The tomb of King Tutankhamen (King Tut) was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Archaeologists Howard Carter and his patron George Edward Stanhope Molyneux, Earl of Carnarvon, discovered it. The excitement would influence the decade's art and fashion, including art deco.
• In December the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) is formed.
• December 15-Disc Jockey, Alan Freed, the man who introduced the term "Rock-N-Roll" was born in Pennsylvania
• Campbell Soup Co. is established by a renaming of Joseph Campbell Co.
• Canada Dry Ginger Ale opens its first U.S. bottling plant on New York’s 38th Street to avoid the long costly haul from Canada and the high tariff on imports
• Jazz from 1922
• Without bidding, Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior, gave Mammoth Oil Company the rights to Teapot Dome oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming.
• Etiquette, by Emily Post is published.
• Insulin is first used to treat diabetes.
• Reader's Digest  is published. The first issue has 31 articles and cost 25¢.

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