1922

Events

• February 6 - The Cheka is dissolved.
• March 31 - The Hinterkaifeck axe murders take place. The perpetrator is never identified.
• April 3 - Joseph Stalin becomes General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party, succeeding Vyacheslav Molotov.
• April 7 - The Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. It is one of the first major political scandals in American history.
• June 22 - British field marshal Sir Henry Wilson is assassinated in London by the Irish Republican Army.
• June 28 - Beginning of the Irish Civil War.
• October 27 to 29 - Benito Mussolini and his National Fascist Party march on Rome, taking power in a coup d'état and establishing a fascist dictatorship.
• November 11 - The Ottoman Empire collapses. End of the Armenian Genocide.
• November 19 - Hiram Wesley Evans succeeds William Joseph Simmons as the national leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
• December 29 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), better known as the Soviet Union, is formally created following the signing of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 15 sovereign states (Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan) comprise the USSR, with all of them ultimately under the rule of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, formerly known as the Russian Communist Party.
• Unknown - End of the Red Terror.

Births

Villain births

• January 9 - Ahmed Sékou Touré
• January 17 - Luis Echeverría
• April 20 - Angelo La Barbera
• May 14 - Franjo Tuđman
• August 6 - Dan Walker
• September 17 - Agostinho Neto
• November 7 - Ghulam Azam

Victim births

• March 1 - Yitzhak Rabin
• May 8 - Benedicto Kiwanuka
• May 15 - Veleslav Wahl
• Unknown - Billy Gaffney

Deaths

Villain deaths

• February 25 - Henri Désiré Landru
• May 31 - Herbert Rowse Armstrong
• June 12 - Wolfgang Kapp
• July 21 - Djemal Pasha
• August 4 - Enver Pasha
• August 11 - Umberto Valenti

Victim deaths

• June 22 - Sir Henry Wilson