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22 Incredible Things That Happened A Century Ago In 1922

It brings us no joy to report: history repeats itself.

22 Incredible Things That Happened A Century Ago In 1922

January 28, 2022

The roaring ‘20s had only just begun and people were already…starting fascist states? Crashing into each other in the sky? Well, a hundred years ago feels so familiar all of a sudden.

Here’s some more things that happened a good century ago to make you ponder all things past and present.

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Diabetes Treatment

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE FIRST INSULIN INJECTION Connaught Antitoxin Laboratories University of Toronto INSULIN INSULIN 4 C.C. 4 С.С. 169 Date of Packing Lot No. 3 1923 (VIAL CONTAINER) NT ANTITOXIN Lak SITY OF TORONTE 165 The first insulin injection was administered on January 11, 1922, to a 14-year-old boy Leonard Thompson who was suffering from diabetes. The following year Frederick Banting and John Macleod shared the Nobel Prize for the historical breakthrough. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nosferatu

THE YEAR WAS 1922... NOSFERATU PREMIERED IN GERMANY The iconic German Expressionist silent film was first shown in 1922. The movie was almost lost to the world due to the Bram Stoker estate claiming copyright infringement, but a copy managed to escape and make its way to the Americas. CRACKED.COM — Read more

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The USSR

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE USSR WAS FORMED NEW LAPTEV SEA SIBERI M - ROLA VERYOX KARA NEW SEA ~ Arkhangel Taynige Nordvil TAMAL PER AU TUNDRA T لا PAN gd Usha Volochonka Dudinka Non Udzha Balekhard Igorka Verkhayark S .Agoto MOUNTAINS NOP Tarko Gienet Arto OF UNION Sale Lurukhansk Arctic Circla Behevaklo RUSSIAN Noginskiy B .. Ferm Serov / Bogaorhe adidas Malylko Tura E Kazon Micholy Tobolsk E R SOVIET OF de ower FEDERATIVE Poligus evenBund Vorogovoa Komsa Yortsevo Ankacho Vilyuysk Yokutsk REPUBLIC Tagil MTNS Sanovat Ango o Saverdlovsk SOCIALIST SOVIET AND URAL ©Chelyabinek Irtysa SOCIALIST Ural's Petropavionale Omnke — Source

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James Joyce's Ulysses

THE YEAR WAS 1922... ULYSSES WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN PARIS ULYSSES JAMES JOYCE BY James Joyce's famous work was first published in full on his birthday February 2, 1922, in Paris by Sylvia Beach at the Shakespeare and Company Bookstore. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baseball

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE US SUPREME COURT RULES THAT ORGANIZED BASEBALL IS A SPORT, NOT A BUSINESS Minole Maid OXY The Federal Baseball Club V. National League case of 1922 saw the Supreme Court rule that the Sherman Antitrust Act-that dictates free competition among those engaged in commerce - did not apply to Major League Baseball. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Deadly typhoon

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE 1922 SWATOW TYPHOON HIT SWATOW (NOW SHANTOU) IN CHINA, KILLING MORE THAN 5,000 PEOPLE IN THE CITY WITH A POPULATION OF 65,000 It's one of the deadliest typhoons ever recorded. Nearby villages were destroyed, ships were wrecked, and the total death toll is estimated to be above 60,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Hinterkaifeck Murders

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE HINTERKAIFECK MURDERS HAPPENED Regarded as Germany's most famous unsolved crime, the killing of a family of five and their maid on a farmstead in Bavaria shook not only the country but also the world as details emerged of the unknown killer who-by the look of the crime scene-spent days after bludgeoning the family to death staying in their home and feeding their animals while the bodies were decomposing in the barn. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Irish Civil War

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE IRISH CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT Following the end of the Irish War of Independence in 1921, the Anglo-Irish treaty was signed in London in December of that year. Some of the Irish republicans, however, were not on board with the treaty and a civil war broke out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Criterion

THE YEAR WAS 1922... T. S. ELIOT ESTABLISHES THE CRITERION No. I. Vol. I. THE CRITERION A Quarterly Review : October, 1922 3/6 NET CONTENTS: AMONGST OTHER CONTRIBUTORS GEORGE SAINTSBURY Dullness WILL BE F. DOSTOEVSKY Plan of a Novel Richard Aldington, Julien Benda, Jean de Bost- (Translated by S. S. Koteliacaky and chèm, E R. Curtius, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry 'irginia Woolf T. STURGE MOORE The Story of Tristrano Ramon Gomez de la Sems, Stephen Hudson, and Irole is Modern Poetry, 1. W. R. Lethaby, Wyndham Lewis, Antonio Mari- T.S. ELIOT The Waste Land chaler, J. M. Murry, Extra Pound, Marcel — Source

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White House radio

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE FIRST RADIO ARRIVES AT THE WHITE HOUSE In 1922 President Harding installed the first radio in the White House. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Reader's Digest

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE FIRST ISSUE OF READER'S DIGEST WAS PUBLISHED IN THE U.S Reader's Reader's Reader's Readers Long Live Digest 4True Digest 20 честа YOUR BRAIN - - Digest Digest YOUR PET BRAINS Every Retr's Best Food - FASCINATING Hidden FOODS AMERICA Powers THAT FACTS UNSOLVED - TASTY HEAL THAT ARE FALME - 13 Prom Experts ACTS OF GENEROSITY MYSTERIES Miracle TRUTHS You Won't ABOUT DNA FROM SCIENCE, Forget CBD - REL NIONS - - - CRIMEA HISTORY - The Led New - Injured I - - - - - 10 - en Tips be - the AGAZIO جمعية Type — Source

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The Greco-Turkish War

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE END OF THE GRECO-TURKISH WAR Greek forces were finally overcome by those of the Turkish Nationalist Movement following their clashes over the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after WWI. Basically, the Allies decided to divide southeastern Europe after the war, leading to Greece marching right in and taking over Anatolia which used to belong to Ancient Greece before the Ottomans captured it. But the Turkish Nationalist Movement said forget about it, some war was fought, and the Greeks finally retreated from Smyrna in August, 1922. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joseph Stalin

THE YEAR WAS 1922... JOSEPH STALIN WAS APPOINTED GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY Не remained in that position until his death in 1953. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dutch election

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE NETHERLANDS HAS ITS FIRST GENERAL ELECTION UNDER UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE a sourc Gronde jettelike Geljks/felling Mac to E THE VEREENIGING sur FRA OIL an VOOK VROUWEN KIESRECHT. CRACKED.COM Almost all the major parties had a woman elected, and female representatives increased from one to seven. — Source

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Bat Mitzvahs

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE FIRST OFFICIAL BAT MITZVAH TOOK PLACE IN THE UNITED STATES On March 18, 1922, at a synagogue in New York City, the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan became the first young girl to celebrate her bat mitzvah publicly. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Plane crash

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE FIRST MID-AIR COLLISION OF COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES HAPPENED On April 7 1922 a Daimler Airways plane and a Grands Express Aériens plane crashed into each other over Picardie, France. Seven passengers and crew were killed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Babe Ruth

THE YEAR WAS 1922... BABE RUTH SIGNED A THREE YEAR CONTRACT WITH THE NEW YORK YANKEES RW YOR At $52,000 a year, it was more than twice the largest sum ever paid to a player. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Egypt sovereignty

THE YEAR WAS 1922... EGYPT WAS DECLARED A SOVEREIGN STATE NESTLES MILK In February 1922, Great Britain ended its protectorate over Egypt. However, by making the decision without involving the Egyptian government at all, the UK granted itself reserved rights - а decision that would lead to a lot of contention and the eventual Egyptian Revolution of 1952. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The March on Rome

THE YEAR WAS 1922... THE MARCH ON ROME BRINGS THE NATIONAL FASCIST PARTY AND BENITO MUSSOLINI TO POWER The March on Rome happened in October '22 and was an insurrection by Italian fascists to take over political power. And they did, with the King appointing Mussolini as Italy's new Prime Minister, just like that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Studies

THE YEAR WAS 1922... ANNIE JUMP CANNON'S SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM WAS ADOPTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION A woman of many firsts in the science world, she was known as the census taker of the sky and forever changed how astronomers classify stars. She herself classified about 350,000 stars, manually. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Amelia Earhart

THE YEAR WAS 1922... AMELIA EARHART SETS RECORD FOR FEMALE PILOTS Earhart made her first solo flight in 1922 and in October of that year she set a new altitude record for female pilots at 14,000 feet. CRACKED.COM — Source

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