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unusual facts about Coalition Government 1916–1922



2BD

After being appointed managing director of the BBC in 1922, John Reith instigated a programme of expansion of the radio network in the United Kingdom, increasing the number of local stations from three to twenty in a relatively short space of time.

66th Punjabis

After the First World War, the 66th Punjabis were grouped with the 62nd, 76th, 82nd and 84th Punjabis, and the 1st Brahmans to form the 1st Punjab Regiment in 1922.

Accra Hearts of Oak SC

Hearts of Oak won their first major match in 1922 when Sir Gordon Guggisberg, governor of the Gold Coast, founded the Accra Football League.

Alzamora

Augusto Vargas Alzamora (1922-2000), Peruvian Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lima

American Brass Company

From 1922 to 1937, Anaconda American Brass used the FIFO method of accounting.

Arthur O. Friel

In 1922, he became a real-life explorer when he took a six-month trip down Venezuela's Orinoco River and its tributary, the Ventuari River.

Arthur W. Barton

From 1922 to 1925 he was a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory (in Lord Rutherford's group).

Aurel Persu

Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still not reached by almost any modern production cars), depending on the source.

Biscotasing, Ontario

From railway construction camp, to fur trade depot and lumbering centre, in 1922 Biscotasing became the first place in Northern Ontario to use aircraft (Curtiss NC) for forest fire surveillance.

Black tie

Emily Post, a resident of Tuxedo Park, New York, stated in 1909 that "Tuxedos can have lapels or be shawl-shaped, in either case they are to have facings of silk, satin or grosgrain." and later republished this statement in her 1922 book "Etiquette", adding that only single-breasted jackets are appropriately called "Tuxedos".

Bonnie McCarroll

In 1922, she won two cowgirl bronc riding championships at both Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the first rodeo hosted at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Cavalier Mustang

In 1957, newspaper publisher David Lindsay (1922–2009) formed Trans Florida Aviation Inc.

Chanak Crisis

The Chanak Crisis, also called the Chanak Affair and the Chanak Incident, in September 1922 was the threatened attack by Turkish troops on British and French troops stationed near Çanakkale (Chanak) to guard the Dardanelles neutral zone.

Clayton R. Lusk

Lusk was Temporary President of the State Senate from 1921 to 1922.

Czechoslovak Legion

Mohr, Joan McGuire, The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia from 1917 to 1922.

Daniel Hopkin

His son Sir David Hopkin (1922–1997) was also a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate for over 20 years, but is probably best known as the Chairman and later President of the British Boxing Board of Control.

Denis Rose

Denis Rose (May 31, 1922, London - November 22, 1984, London) was an English jazz pianist and trumpeter.

Diego Bermúdez

He had long since retired from performing, due to an injury, when the Concurso de Cante Jondo was scheduled to be held in Granada during June 1922.

East Sahuarita, Arizona

The project was abandoned after the end of World War I, and in 1922, was sold to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.

Elbie

Elbie Nickel (1922-2007), a professional American football player

Enid Bennett

In 1922, she starred in only three films, but one of those became her most famous role, the female lead of "Maid Marian" in Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks.

Florence Kate Upton

Florence Kate Upton (22 February 1873 – 16 October 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist and author most famous for her Golliwogg series of children's books.

George Berry

George Andreas Berry (1853–1940), MP for Combined Scottish Universities, 1922–1931

Henry Auchey

Henry B. Auchy (1861–1922) was a businessman famous for, along with Chester Albright, creating the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (later renamed Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1904.

Herman A. Metz

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.

Hugh L. Nichols

In 1922, Nichols was appointed chairman of the U. S. Grant Memorial Centenary Association, which directed the restoration of the Grant Birthplace in Point Pleasant, Ohio, and directed the state to acquire it.

Ice Hockey European Championship 1922

The tournament was played between February 14, and February 16, 1922, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and it was won by Czechoslovakia.

Japanese cruiser Niitaka

On 26 August 1922, Niitaka anchored near the mouth of a river in what is now part of the Ust-Bolsheretsky District on the southern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, while a party of 15 led by Lieutenant Shigetada Gunji went ashore.

John Gott

John William Gott (1866–1922), last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy

Joseph Walton

Sir Joseph Walton, 1st Baronet (1849–1923), Liberal Party MP for Barnsley, 1897–1922

Karl Ludwig d'Elsa

D'Elsa died on 20 July 1922 at Tannenfeld bei Nöbdenitz, in the Löbichau district of Thuringia.

Katherine Thurston

Two more films were made using the American book title The Masquerader in 1922 and then by the Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1933 as a "talkie" starring Ronald Colman.

Knox Burger

Knox Breckenridge Burger (November 1, 1922 – January 4, 2010) was an editor, writer, and literary agent who lived in New York City.

Lacronia

This genus was at first called Luederwaldtia Mello-Leitão, 1923, but the name was already preoccupied, being a junior homonym of Luederwaldtia Schmidt, 1922 (Hemiptera).

London Calling!

The basis of London Calling! began at the Swiss resort of Davos in Christmas 1922, when Coward presented a musical outline of a new project involving himself and Lawrence, to benefactor, Edward William Bootle Wilbraham, 3rd Earl of Lathom, who was also a friend of André Charlot.

Mabel Terry–Lewis

Her film appearances include Love Maggy (1921), Shirley (1922), Caste (1930), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Third Clue (1934), Dishonour Bright (1936), The Squeaker (1937), Jamaica Inn (1939), The Adventures of Tartu (1943) and They Came to a City (1945).

Minna Specht

In 1922, she went to Walkemühle, a progressive boarding school in Melsungen near Kassel, founded by Nelson.

Ralph Capron

He also played football in the American Professional Football Association (Later renamed the National Football League in 1922) with the Chicago Tigers in 1920.

Richard Davisson

Professor Richard Joseph "Dick" Davisson (December 29, 1922 – June 15, 2004) was an American physicist.

Robert McAlmon

Having published his book of short stories A Hasty Bunch with James Joyce's printer Maurice Darantière in Dijon in 1922, he founded the Contact Publishing Company in 1923 using his father-in-law's money.

Robert Stone

Robert L. Stone (1922–2009), former chief executive of The Hertz Corporation

S. P. Narasimhalu Naidu

Salem Pagadala Narasimhalu Naidu (or Pagadala Narasimhalu Nayadu) (12 April 1854 - 22 January 1922) was a Tamil Congressman, social worker, publisher and the first person to have written travelogues in Tamil.

Saint Benjamin

Hieromartyr Benjamin of Petrograd (1873–1922), Metropolitan martyred by the Soviets

Solomon Nikritin

In 1922 he participated in the founding of the group, the Projectionists, together with Kliment Red'ko and Tishler among others.

Standard Athletic Club

In 1922, the historic decision to ensure a permanent home for the Club led to the purchase of the present grounds in Meudon.

Stone, Kentucky

In 1922 the Pond Creek Coal Company was sold to Fordson Coal Company, which was a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company.

Tim Noakes

Noakes is also known for renewing and elaborating the idea first proposed by the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner Archibald Hill that a central governor regulates exercise to protect body homeostasis.

Tommy Bowles

Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841–1922), founder of the magazines The Lady and the English Vanity Fair

Vickers Vulcan

# G-EBEM; Type 61 - Delivered to Douglas Vickers MP in September 1922, competed in King's Cup Air Race in September 1922, taking 7th place, disappeared off the coast of Italy in May 1926.

Warren Smith

Warren J. Smith (1922–2008), president of the Optical Society of America, 1980


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