July 1922

• The Great Railroad Strike began in the United States as 400,000 railworkers walked off of the job.
• Construction began on the Country Club Plaza, the world's first regional shopping center, in Kansas City, Missouri. The Plaza opened in 1923.[1]

• The Winslow Junction Train Derailment in New Jersey killed seven people and injured 89.[2]
• Born: Pierre Cardin, Italian-born French fashion designer, in San Biagio di Callalta, Italy (d. 2020)

• Three days of parliamentary elections concluded in Finland. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in Parliament.
• German journalist and editor Maximilian Harden was stabbed and nearly killed by right-wing radicals.[3][4]
• Born: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-born Dutch artist, in Liège (d. 2010)

• Benny Leonard knocked out Rocky Kansas in the eighth round in Michigan City, Indiana to retain boxing's World Lightweight Title.[5]
• At Camp Harding, the U.S. Marines staged a re-enactment of Pickett's Charge.
• A German mail plane flown by Lothar von Richthofen carrying the actress Fern Andra and director Georg Bluen crashed due to engine failure. Richthofen, the younger brother of Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, died but Andra and Bluen survived their injuries.
• Died: Lothar von Richthofen, 27, German fighter ace, killed in a plane crash

• General elections for the 100-member Tweede Kamer of the Staten-Generaal, the Dutch Parliament, were held in the Netherlands, the first since women were allowed the right to vote. The General League of Roman Catholic Caucuses remained the largest party.
• The Tenente revolts began in Brazil.
• The Battle of Dublin ended with a total of 65 killed.[6]

• Eleven more people in Soviet Russia were condemned to death for interfering with the state confiscation of church property.[7]
• The Romanian football club FC Gloria Progresul Bistrița was founded.
• The Bulgarian football club PFC Svetkavitsa was founded.
• Born: William Schallert, American TV and film actor best known for The Patty Duke Show; in Los Angeles (d. 2016)

Anatole France

• The Vatican placed the works of François-Anatole Thibault, a French author who wrote under the pen name Anatole France and who had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature the year before, on the list of books that Catholics were forbidden to read.[8]
• Died: Ioannis Svoronos, 59, Greek archaeologist and numismatist

Union Local 731 of NYC was organized

Lenglen in 1922

• Suzanne Lenglen of France defeated Molla Mallory to win the Ladies' Singles Final at Wimbledon for the fourth straight year.[9]
• Elections to the Upper House of the Althing were held in Iceland for the six seats that had previously been filled by appointment.

• Johnny Weissmuller became the first man to swim 100 metres in less than a minute.[1]

Patterson

• Gerald Patterson of Australia defeated Randolph Lycett of the United Kingdom in the Gentlemen's Singles Final at Wimbledon.[10]
• Joe Lynch regained boxing's World Bantamweight Title with a 14th-round knockout of Johnny Buff in New York.[11]
• The Law Society of Northern Ireland was established.

• The Hollywood Bowl opened in Hollywood, California with a performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.[6]
• The U.S. state of Montana got its first licensed radio station, KFBB out of Great Falls.[12]
• Died: Hans Irvine, 65, Australian vigneron, winemaker and politician

• Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King proposed to modernize and make permanent the century-old Rush-Bagot Treaty with the United States.[13]
• Germany formally asked the Allied Reparations Commission to extend the moratorium on German reparations payments to all of 1923 and 1924.[14]
• Born: Heinz Sachsenberg, German ace fighter pilot, in Dessau (d. 1951)
• Died: George Washington Steele, 82, American lawyer and U.S. Congressman who was the first Governor of the Oklahoma Territory.

• The directors of the Bank of England reduced the interest rate on loans to 3% per annum, the pre-war figure.[15]
• Born:
  • Anker Jørgensen, Prime Minister of Denmark 1972 to 1973 and 1975 to 1982; in Copenhagen (d. 2016)
  • Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player, in Montreal (d. 2006)

• French President Alexandre Millerand survived an assassination attempt when someone fired three revolver shots at him as he rode in an open carriage down the Champs-Élysées during Bastille Day celebrations.[16]
• The Hague economic conference ended without an agreement.[17]

• Italian Fascists led by Roberto Farinacci occupied Cremona and forced the local government to resign.[18]
• The Japanese Communist Party was founded.
• Gene Sarazen won the U.S. Open golf tournament.
• Born: Leon M. Lederman, experimental physicist and Nobel laureate, in New York City (d. 2018)

• Felice Nazzaro won the French Grand Prix.

• The murderers of Walther Rathenau were cornered by police at Saaleck Castle near Kösen. Retired naval officer Erwin Kern was shot while fleeing and reserve lieutenant Herman Fischer committed suicide.[19]
• In Germany, the National Bank and the Darmstadt Bank of Trade and Industry merged to create the Danatbank.[20]
• The signing of "Treaty 11" (the eleventh and final treaty between Canada and the First Nations governments) were made at Fort Liard in Canada's Northwest Territories.

• Edwina Ashley and Lord Louis Mountbatten were married at St Margaret's, Westminster, London in the society wedding of the year.[21]
• The U.S. state of Kentucky's first radio station, WHAS out of Louisville, went on the air.[22]
• Born: Thomas Kuhn, American physicist, historian and philosopher of science, in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1996)

• The National Athletic and Cycling Association was formed in Ireland.
• Born:
  • George McGovern, U.S. Senator for South Dakota and unsuccessful Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 U.S. presidential election; in Avon, South Dakota (d. 2012);
  • Jaafar of Negeri Sembilan, Yang di-Pertuan Agong (the elected monarch) of Malaysia from 1994 to 1999; in Klang, British Malaya (d. 2008)

• The British and French mandates over the former German possessions of Kamerun and Togoland were ratified by the League of Nations. French and British Cameroons and French and British Togoland were made League of Nations Class B mandates.[23]
• The city of Limerick fell to the Ireland National Army.[24]
• Died: Andrey Markov, 66, Russian mathematician

• Film actress ZaSu Pitts filed for bankruptcy.[25]
• A limited commercial license was issued for operating radio station WIAE, in Vinton, Iowa, to station manager Marie Zimmerman, making WIAE the first radio station owned and operated by a woman.[26]
• Born: Mollie Sugden, comedy actress, in Keighley, England (d. 2009)
• Died: Djemal Pasha, 50, Turkish war criminal and former Ottoman Empire Navy Minister from 1914 to 1918, was assassinated in retaliation for his role in the Armenian genocide.

• Germany formally announced the acceptance of a plan for Allied control of German finances in which they would personally supervise almost all the country's financial departments.[27]
• The U.S. state of Delaware got its first licensed radio station, WHAV in Wilmington.[28]
• Born: Alan S. Boyd, the first United States Secretary of Transportation (1967 to 1969); in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 2020)
• Died: Jōkichi Takamine, 67, Japanese chemist known for his isolation of the chemical process for the production the life-saving hormone adrenaline in 1901.

• Firmin Lambot of Belgium won the Tour de France.
• The Boston Red Sox made a controversial trade with the New York Yankees. Joe Dugan and Elmer Smith went to the Yankees in exchange for $50,000 and an assortment of mediocre players, which caused complaints around the league that Red Sox owner Harry Frazee was habitually selling off his top talent to the Yankees in order to line his own pockets.[29][30][31]

• The League of Nations approved the establishment of a French mandate over the Syrian states and a mandate over Palestine for Great Britain.[32]

• The Battle of Kilmallock began in County Limerick, Ireland.

• The British government rejected a proposal from the United States requesting the right to search British vessels outside the three-mile limit suspected of smuggling liquor into America.[33]
• American League President Ban Johnson suggested that the baseball trading deadline be moved up to July 1 from August 1 to cut down on lopsided deals like the one recently made between the Red Sox and Yankees.[34]
• Born: Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee; in Huntersville, North Carolina (d. 2002)

• Oscar Traynor and a number of other IRA officers were arrested by the government.[24]
• Adolf Hitler was released from Munich Stadelheim Prison after serving a month of his 100-day sentence.[35]
• Adyghe Autonomous Oblast was created within the Russian SFSR.
• Born: Norman Lear, American television writer and producer known for creating the popular and pioneering TV shows All in the Family and Sanford and Son; New Haven, Connecticut (alive in 2021)

• Sir Adam Beck announced plans for a $100 million expansion of Canada's hydroelectric power plants at Niagara Falls.[36]

• The German mark hit a new low of 650 to 1 American dollar.[37]
• The short animated film Little Red Riding Hood, produced and directed by Walt Disney, was released.

• The Irish National Army took Tipperary.[24]
• Marilyn Miller and Jack Pickford were married in Los Angeles.[38]

• Socialist-led unions in Italy held a 24-hour general strike in an effort to pressure Luigi Facta's government to do more to stop Fascist violence. Few workers participated, however, leaving the Socialists discredited and the Fascists even more emboldened.[39]
• The Rex Ingram-directed adventure film The Prisoner of Zenda premiered at the Astor Theatre in New York City.[40]
• The musical stage comedy Little Nellie Kelly premiered at the Tremont Theatre in Boston.[41]
• Born:
  • Bill Kaysing, controversial American writer known for first advancing the Moon landing conspiracy theory, in Chicago (d. 2005)
  • Hank Bauer, baseball player and manager, in East St. Louis, Illinois (d. 2007);