September 1922

September 1, 1922 (Friday)

• The Reichsbank in Germany was closed by police following a bank run by employers looking to meet overdue payrolls.
• The Constitution of Mandatory Palestine was put into effect by publication, providing for the British Mandate in what is now Israel and Jordan, to be governed by a British High Commissioner and an elected Legislative Council and to have a civil and religious court system.
• Born:
• *Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born American actress known for her role in The Munsters; as Margaret Yvonne Middleton, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• *Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director; as Vittorio Gassman, in Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
• Died: Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, 61, member of the British royal family; died of a heart attack

  September 2, 1922 (Saturday)

• An agreement to end the nationwide anthracite coal mining strike in the United States was reached between the United Mine Workers of America and the Policy Committee of the Anthracite Coal Operators, by extending the terms of the contract between labor and management to at least August 31, 1923. The compromise came after the intervention of U.S. President Harding, who had appealed to both sides "in the name of public welfare" to accept the proposal to end the strike in time for the onset of winter, as made by the two U.S. Senators for Pennsylvania, David A. Reed and George W. Pepper, both of whom had been in office for less than a year.
• German President Friedrich Ebert declared the "Deutschlandlied" to be the national anthem of Germany. The lyrics were limited to the song's third stanza. The song would be used in Nazi Germany until the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. The "Deutschlandlied" would be made the anthem of West Germany on May 2, 1952 and continued after the reunification of Germany in 1989.

  September 3, 1922 (Sunday)

• The Austrian government issued a decree forbidding, except in the city of Vienna, the sale of alcohol in restaurants after 10 p.m., and in bars after midnight. Newspapers called it a first step towards prohibition.
• Born:
• *Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter; as Johan Steffan Danielsen, in Nólsoy, Faroe Islands, Denmark
• *Salli Terri, Canadian singer; in London, Ontario, Canada
• Died: Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, 31, British-Austrian heiress and mother of the seven children who would become the Trapp Family singers and were the subject of the musical The Sound of Music; died of scarlet fever

  September 4, 1922 (Monday)

• Jimmy Doolittle began the first single-day crossing of the United States, departing at 10:03 p.m. in a modified DH-4B from Pablo Beach, Florida toward Rockwell Field in San Diego, California.
• John Hessin Clarke, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, announced his resignation, to take effect on September 18, his 65th birthday. Clarke had only been on the Court for six years, and friends said that he would work toward bringing the United States into the League of Nations.
• Born: Margaret S. Collins, African-American entomologist known for her expertise in the study of termites; in Institute, West Virginia, United States
• Died:
• *Pratap Singh, 76, Maharaja of the princely state of Idar and regent of Jodhpur State, decorated hero of the British Indian Army
• *James Young, 40, Scottish footballer; killed in a motorcycle accident

  September 5, 1922 (Tuesday)

• A mine explosion at Haig Colliery in Whitehaven, England killed 39 miners.
• In a telegram to prime minister Rauf Orbay, Turkey's President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk asserted the Turkish claim to East Thrace as part of its conditions of the settlement of the war with Greece, to take back territory that had been ceded to Greece in 1920. The areas that came back under Turkish control under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne would include Edirne and İzmir.
• Born: Denys Wilkinson, British nuclear physicist and inventor, known for the Wilkinson ADC ; in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
• Died: Sarah Winchester, 83, American heiress and the wealthiest woman in the world at the time of her death due to being a majority owner of the Winchester firearms company, built the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California

  September 6, 1922 (Wednesday)

• A new law went into effect in Poland as part of an effort to stop the spread of venereal diseases, amending the Basic Sanitation Law to regulate houses of prostitution.
• The Hawaii Theatre opened in downtown Honolulu.

  September 7, 1922 (Thursday)

• Brazil celebrated its 100th birthday with a twenty-one gun salute at midnight and parading in the streets of Rio de Janeiro throughout the day.
• Man Singh II, the 10-year-old adopted son of Madho Singh II, became the Maharaja of Jaipur upon Madho II's death. He would retain the honorary title after India's independence in 1947 and would receive a pension until his death in 1970.
• Born:
• *Paulo Autran, Brazilian film and stage actor; in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• *David Croft, English writer, producer and director; as David Sharland, in Sandbanks, Dorset, England
• Died:
• *William S. Halsted, 69, pioneering American surgeon, inventor of the residency training system within hospitals for medical school graduates, developed the radical mastectomy for treatment of breast cancer, and co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Hospital; died of bronchopneumonia
• *Charles Morris, 88, American historian and writer of historical textbooks

  September 8, 1922 (Friday)

• The Greek Army began to evacuate Smyrna and asked Turkey for an armistice in the Greco-Turkish War.
• Mary Katherine Campbell of Columbus, Ohio won the second annual Miss America pageant, competing as one of 58 "intercity" contestants in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and in the process, "triumphing over more than 500 amateur and professional rivals." Under the rules of the competition, the winners of the three classes of competitors went up against the reigning Miss America, Margaret Gorman, and the judges picked the winner from the four finalists. Campbell, who had won the intercity competition as "Miss Columbus", was selected as the winner of $5,000 and the Golden Mermaid Trophy.
• Born:
• *Sid Caesar, American comic actor and writer; as Isaac Sidney Caesar, in Yonkers, New York, United States
• *Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist; in Rochester, New Hampshire, United States

  September 9, 1922 (Saturday)

• Victorious Turkish forces entered Smyrna, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War in the field.
• The Dáil Éireann, the Irish parliament elected in June, met for the first time after a number of delays. Anti-Treaty deputies did not attend with the exception of Laurence Ginnell who was soon ejected. W. T. Cosgrave was elected President of Dáil Éireann.
• The popular operetta Madame Pompadour, composed by Leo Fall with a libretto by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch, was given its first performance, making a debut at the Berliner Theater in Berlin in the German language, with the symphony conducted by Leo Fall. The opera was subsequently translated into English, Italian and French.
• At least 30 people, all women and children who were passengers on the German steamship Hammonia, died when the two lifeboats that they were in overturned, after they safely evacuated the ship as it foundered off the coast of Spain. The passenger list went down with the ship, but the ship captain believed that there were 365 passengers and 192 crew for a total of 537 people on board. Another steamship, Kinfauns Castle, rescued 383 survivors and its captain said that he witnessed 80 people drowning, while other observers put the number of dead as high as 150.
• The Gormanston Camp for captured Irish Republicans was opened at the site of a former Royal Irish Constabulary base, and housed over 1,000 prisoners at its height, finally closing at the end of 1923.
• Born:
• *Hans Georg Dehmelt, German physicist and awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989; in Görlitz, Germany
• *Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian geneticist known for his breeding of the Africanized bee, colloquially known as the "killer bee"; in Santana de Parnaíba, São Paulo, Brazil
• *Sir Tom Cowie, English businessman, founder of the Arriva Group; in Sunderland, County Durham, England
• *Pauline Baynes, English book illustrator; in Hove, Sussex, England
• *Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer; in Apeiranthos, Naxos, Kingdom of Greece
• Died: Annie Royle Taylor, 66, English explorer and evangelist missionary Tibet, was the first Western woman to have visited Tibet

  September 10, 1922 (Sunday)

• Film producer Hal Roach introduced the first of 220 short films in the Our Gang series, as the Pathé company released the silent 20-minute feature "One Terrible Day", directed by Robert F. McGowan and Tom McNamara. The series of movies about the adventures of a gang of children, was shown before feature films and continued until 1944, and then was syndicated on television from 1955 onward as The Little Rascals.
• The New York World published an interview by Clare Sheridan with English writer Rudyard Kipling in which he was quoted as saying that America had come into the war "two years, seven months and four days too late" and had "quit the day of the Armistice, without waiting to see the thing through." Kipling believed he had made the remarks in the context of a private conversation and so in the media uproar that ensued he publicly denied ever giving Sheridan an interview at all.
• The New York Yankees played their last regular season games in the Polo Grounds before moving to Yankee Stadium for 1923. The Yanks swept a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics in front of a capacity crowd, as an estimated 25,000 fans had to be turned away at the gate.
• Died: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 82, English poet and critic