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Top Song(s)
• Fanny Brice - My Man
• Paul Whiteman - Three O'Clock in The Morning
• Al Jolson - Toot Toot Tootsie (Goodbye)
• Henry Burr - My Buddy
• Isham Jones - On The Alamo
Top Film(s)
• Nosferatu
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• Nanook of the North
• Cops
• Foolish Wives
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Garden Party and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
• The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
• The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Bianco
• Ulysses - James Joyce
• The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Famous Deaths
• January 5 – Sir Ernest Shackleton, British explorer
• February 1 - Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese field marshal, 3rd Prime Minister of Japan
• February 16 – Newton Knight, American farmer, soldier and Southern Unionist
• April 2 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist
• May 12 – John Martin Poyer, United States Navy Commander, 12th Governor of American Samoa
• May 26 – Ernest Solvay, Belgian chemist, philanthropist and entrepreneur
• July 4 – Lothar von Richthofen, German World War I flying ace
• August 14 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, British newspaper magnate
• September 5 – Sarah Winchester, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House
• December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz, Polish professor and politician, 1st President of Poland
Medical/Science/Technology
• Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt.
• The California grizzly bear is hunted to extinction.
• H. J. Muller sets out the basic properties of genetic heredity.
• Arthur Compton studies X-ray photon scattering by electrons.
• Lancia Lambda is the first automobile to use monocoque construction.
• Madeleine Vionnet introduces the bias cut dress in Paris.
• First successful insulin treatment of diabetes, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.
• Ernst Steinitz proves Steinitz's theorem in polyhedral combinatorics.
• German chemist Hermann Staudinger proposes what he will come to call macromolecules.
• English mathematical physicist Lewis Fry Richardson proposes a scheme for weather forecasting.
Political Events
• February 7 – Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between United States, Britain, Italy, Japan and France.
• February 8 - President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
• February 18 - The Capper-Volstead Act allows farmers to buy and sell cooperatively without the risk of prosecution.
• February 24 – Leser v. Garnett: A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
• April 7 – The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
• May 30 – In Washington, D.C., United States, the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
• June 14 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.
• October 3 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia becomes the first female United States Senator.
• December 5 – The British Parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act.
National Events
• January 3 - 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar.
• January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie ice cream bar.
• February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
• February 19 - Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer.
• March 6 - Babe Ruth signs 3 year contract with NY Yankees at $52,000 a year.
• April 1 – The Illinois General Assembly creates the Illinois State Police.
• April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
• April 16 - Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row.
• May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia.
• June 16 - Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics.
Worldwide Events
• January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.
• January 15 – Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State.
• February 6 - Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope.
• March 2 - The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.
• March 18 – In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).
• April 1 – South African Railways takes control of all railway operations in South West Africa.
• August 2 – The 1922 Swatow typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 5,000 people.
• August 28 – Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia.
• September 13–15 – The Great Fire of Smyrna destroys most of ?zmir.
• October – 3,000 German marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar.