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.
• The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.
• A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
• In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).
• Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
• In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
• Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau is assassinated; the murderers are captured on July 17.
• Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar.
• Irish Civil War: General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.
• Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter Izmir, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).
• The Mandate of Palestine is approved by the Council of the League of Nations.
• The British Broadcasting Company is formed.
• The German army occupies Saxony and crushes the Soviet Republic of Saxony.
• The Third Dáil enacts the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
• The March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power.
• The Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last sultan Mehmed VI, abdicates.
• Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
• Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasia come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....

And my future father-in law was born on 17 September completely unaware of any of this. 91 today and still going, although not quite as strongly as he would like. Happy birthday.