November 1922

November 1, 1922 (Wednesday)

• In Ankara, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey voted to declare that the monarchy of the Ottoman Empire led by Sultan Mehmed VI, was abolished, and that since Constantinople was occupied, the city was no longer the capital of the Turkish people.
• Mickey Walker won the World Welterweight Title of boxing with a unanimous decision over Jack Britton at Madison Square Garden.
• Elections were held in Cuba for half of the 104 seats in the Chamber of Representatives.
• Died:
• *Lima Barreto, 41, Brazilian novelist and journalist
• *Francisco R. Murguía, 49, former Mexican Army General who attempted to overthrow Mexico's President Álvaro Obregón, was executed the day after his capture by federal troops. General Murguia was taken to the public square in Tepehuanes, where he had been captured, and shot by a firing squad.

  November 2, 1922 (Thursday)

• Regularly scheduled flying service began in Australia as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service pilot Hudson Fysh departed from the airfield at Longreach, Queensland in a Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 biplane to transport passenger Alexander Kennedy on a flight to Cloncurry.
• Economic experts opened a conference in Berlin discussing the financial crisis in Germany.
• Died: Harry Hampton, 51, British Army war hero, was killed when he fell in front of an oncoming train at the Twickenham railway station.

  November 3, 1922 (Friday)

• The German mark fell to another record low of 6,156 to a U.S. dollar.
• Ratifications of the Concordat of 1922 were exchanged at the Vatican.
• The Walt Disney-directed animated short film Puss in Boots was released as a Laugh-O-Gram cartoon.
• Born: Townsend Cromwell, U.S. oceanographer; in Boston, Massachusetts
• Died: Jack Kennedy, 52, American train robber who had resumed his criminal career after 12 years incarceration, was shot and killed along with a partner, Harvey Logan, immediately after robbing a train near Wittenberg, Missouri.

  November 4, 1922 (Saturday)

• British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discovered the entrance to the Tomb of Tutankhamun near Al-Uqsur in southern Egypt. Carter would later write that his team had cleared the remains of workmen's huts that had been "used probably by the labourers in the tomb of Rameses" on November 3 and that "Hardly had I arrived on the work next morning than the usual silence, due to the stoppage of the work, made me realize that something extraordinary had happened, and I was greeted with the announcement that a step cut in the rock had been discovered underneath the very first hut to be attacked. This seemed to be good to be true... we were actually in the entrance of a steep cut in the rock, some thirteen feet below the entrance to the tomb of Rameses VI..." Carter sent a telegram to the expedition's sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, that said "At last have made wonderful discovery in Valley; a magnificent tomb with seals intact; re-covered same for your arrival; congratulations."
• Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, the last Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, resigned after the Grand National Assembly of Turkey abolished the post along with the sultanate.
• Former Turkish Interior Minister Ali Kemal was kidnapped from the barber shop of the luxurious Tokatlıyan Hotel in Istanbul on orders of General Nureddin Pasha, the military governor of Izmir.
• The Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the previously unbeaten Penn Quakers, 9 to 7, a major upset and one of the most important wins in Alabama college football history.
• Died: John William Gott, 56, British secularist and the last person to be convicted of blasphemy under British law, died less than three months after his release from prison.

  November 5, 1922 (Sunday)

• Former German Kaiser Wilhelm II married Hermine Reuss of Greiz at Doorn Castle in the Netherlands. Only 28 guests came to the private civil and religious ceremonies, including Doorn officials who were booed by the crowd.
• Parliamentary elections were held in Poland; the Christian Union of National Unity emerged as the largest bloc in the Sejm.
• The comedy and horror film The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, starring Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane, was premiered at the Symphony Theater in Los Angeles.
• The romantic drama film The Young Rajah starring Rudolph Valentino was released.
• Born:
• *Sydney Kentridge, South African lawyer; in Johannesburg
• *Yitzchok Scheiner, American rabbi; in Pittsburgh

  November 6, 1922 (Monday)

• A coal mine explosion killed 79 workers at the Reilly No. 1 Mine in Spangler, Pennsylvania.
• Born: Vivian Kellogg, American baseball player with 747 games in the AAGPBL, primarily for the Fort Wayne Daisies; in Jackson, Michigan
• Died: Ali Kemal, 53, Turkish journalist and former Ottoman Minister of the Interior, kidnapped two days earlier, was lynched two days after while being transported to the gallows for execution. According to a reporter at the scene, "an angry mob of women pounced on him, attacking him with knives, stones, clubs, tearing at his clothing and slashing his body and head with cutlasses. After a few minutes of excruciating torture the victim expired."

  November 7, 1922 (Tuesday)

• The Democratic Party made big gains in both the U.S. House of Representatives and in the Senate in the United States midterm elections for Congress. While the Republican Party maintained its majority in both houses of Congress, their majority of more than 2 to 1 in the House fell from 302-131 to 225-207 as they lost 77 seats. The party's 60 to 36 lead in the Senate fell to only 53 to 42.
• Voters in the town of West Park, Ohio approved the end of the municipality's independent existence by a margin of almost 2-to-1 in a referendum, electing to be annexed by the city of Cleveland by a margin of 2,011 to 1,077. West Park's separate existence ended effective January 1, 1923.
• Born:
• *Desmond 'Dizzy' de Villiers, British test pilot; in Bedford, Bedfordshire
• *Vincent Vaas, Sri Lankan film actor; in Kalutara, Ceylon
• *Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician and leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami; in Dacca, Bengal Province, British India
• Died: Sam Thompson, 62, American baseball right fielder for 20 seasons and inductee to the Baseball Hall of Fame

  November 8, 1922 (Wednesday)

• Economic experts of the Berlin conference submitted a detailed report to the German government advising that Germany declare a two-year moratorium on reparations payments to avoid economic collapse.
• Born: Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant; in Beaufort West
• Died: General Juan Carrasco, former Mexican Federal Army general who was leading a revolution to overthrow the government of President Álvaro Obregón, was killed in a battle with the Federales, along with seven of his men, near Guamuchil in Sinaloa state.

  November 9, 1922 (Thursday)

• The French Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré's policy that France should not have to pay its war debts until it collected reparations due from Germany in turn.
• Scotland Yard police commissioner William Horwood became ill after being poisoned when he ate a box of Walnut Whip chocolates thinking they were a birthday gift from his daughter. London's newspaper, the Daily Mail would leak a key clue kept secret by police in order to prevent false leads, revealing on November 11 that arsenic in the box of chocolates was the cause of the poisoning. The crime was eventually traced to Walter Tatam, a mentally ill man.
• Born:
• *Raymond Devos, Belgian humorist; in Mouscron
• *Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer and dancer, in Cleveland, Ohio
• Died: Lieutenant General Viktor Pokrovsky, 33, one of the surviving leaders of the White Army during the Russian Civil War, was killed by police while in exile in the Bulgarian city of Kyustendil. Pokrovsky reportedly resisted arrest by local law enforcement conducting a murder investigation.

  November 10, 1922 (Friday)

• Irish Republican Army official Erskine Childers was captured by Irish Free State forces as part of the nationwide roundup of IRA members. Childers was tried, convicted, and executed by firing squad two weeks later.
• U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon ordered the release of all 20 foreign vessels that had been seized at sea more than three miles from the coast of the United States, reversing a policy that had started on September 13 with the capture by the U.S. Coast Guard of the British schooner M. M. Gardner.
• As part of the peace settlement of the Turkish victory in the Greco-Turkish War, the formerly Greek city of Sarànta Ekklisiès was turned over to Turkey. Initially renamed "Kırk Kilise" by the Turks, it received the designation of Kırklareli in 1924.

  November 11, 1922 (Saturday)

• An 8.5 magnitude earthquake struck Chile near the town of Vallenar at 04:32 UTC, killing at least 1,000 people, 500 within the town, and was followed 15 minutes later by a tsunami that killed hundreds more at the coastal town of Caldera.
• The Oehmichen No.2, the first reliable flying helicopter capable of carrying a person, was given its first test flight by its inventor, French engineer Étienne Oehmichen, who built a machine using eight small vertically mounted rotors which rotated in the opposite direction from the large lifting rotors in order to maintain stability.
• The Unknown Soldier of Belgium was interred in a mausoleum at the base of the Congress Column in Brussels on the third anniversary of the end of World War I.
• In one of the biggest games of the 1922 college football season, the two unbeaten and untied teams of the Ivy League, both 6-0-0, faced off at Harvard Stadium in Boston. The Princeton Tigers defeated the Harvard Crimson, 10 to 3, marking their first victory over Harvard in 16 years. The Tigers finished at 8-0-0 the following week, having defeated Harvard, the University of Chicago, and Yale. Other unbeaten teams that would retroactively be declared contenders for the fictional national college football championship were Cornell University, Drake University, and the California Golden Bears.
• Baseball star Babe Ruth and Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees signed and initialed an addendum to his existing contract in which Ruth pledged to be more careful in his personal life in return for a waiver of fines of $9,100 assessed against him by the club. Ruth initialed a statement that "I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."
• Born: Kurt Vonnegut, U.S. science fiction writer; in Indianapolis, Indiana