So what was happening in the world in 1922?

So what was happening in the world in 1922?

• The year begins with the British Empire at its largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in four people on earth.
• Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie
• Knickerbocker Storm: Snowfall from the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington D.C causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.
• Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV as the 259th pope.
•  Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved.
• President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House
• Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.
• Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
•  In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
•  A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA.
•  Sergei Diaghilev, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.
• U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.
•  Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.
•  The Hollywood Bowl opens.
•  A typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 50,000 people.
•  The highest temperature in recorded history is taken in at 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), in El Aziziyah, Libya in the shade.
•  Hungary joins the League of Nations.
•  Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy at age 39.
•  Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
•  The California grizzly bear becomes extinct.

- Oliver