22 Incredible Things That Happened A Century Ago In 1922

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22 Incredible Things That Happened A Century Ago In 1922

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.

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

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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

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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

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A famous unsolved murder

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

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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

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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

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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

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Bat Mitzvah

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

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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

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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

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