1922: Difference between revisions

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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 Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Vyacheslav Molotov.
April 7 - The Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
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.
Unknown - End of the Red Terror.

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 * May 14 - [[Franjo Tuđman]]
 * August 6 - [[Dan Walker]]
+* September 17 - [[Agostinho Neto]]
 === Victim births ===
 * March 1 - Yitzhak Rabin