February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
Day of marriage November 17, 1922
The temperature on November 17, 1922 was between 6.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
April 20 » The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
April 24 » The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
June 1 » The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
July 20 » The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
November 14 » The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
December 6 » One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
Day of death December 7, 1926
The temperature on December 7, 1926 was between 1.1 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
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