The Cubs held off the Phillies 26-23 in Wrigley Field after being up by 19. The game remains the highest-scoring game in major-league history. Marty Callaghan of the Cubs batted three times in a single inning.
W. T. Cosgrave became Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State, replacing Michael Collins in that role.
An earthquake occurred in the Tel Atlas region of Algeria.
The Irish army, having made seaborne landings the day prior, took Cork, although the withdrawing IRA set it on fire first. The city had been burned during the Anglo-Irish War two years prior.
One of my great-grandmother's was from Cork, although she would have left the city, at age three, well before this time period.
On the same day, IRA men Joseph O'Sullivan and Reginald Dunne were executed in London for the June 22 assassination of Sir Henry Wilson.
The Sammarinese Fascist Party was founded by Giuliano Gozi. It would rule San Marino for twenty years, falling during the end of the Second World War, during which San Marino was a neutral tiny power.
While I'm not completely certain, I think the instructor depicted above is actually wearing hearing protection while his student shoots a Browning machine gun. Of interest, in spite of the lessons of the Great War, none of the men in these photographs, and they're all men, are wearing helmets.
On the same day, a photographer took photos of the Coast Guard Cutter Seneca.
Interesting how gold watches were a retirement tradition, but that seems to have passed.
105 men escaped Dundalk Gaol after the 4th Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army blasted a hole in the prison's walls.
On the same day, Oscar Traynor, an IRA officer, was arrested by the Free State. He'd later go on to be Minister of Defense and then Minister of Justice for post World War Two Irish governments.
Adolf Hitler was released from prison.
The Provisional Government of Southern Ireland suspended all sessions of the nationalist established Dáil Courts in favor of the courts of the Irish Free State. A pre independence tactic had been co-opting the features of regular civil life in a new nationalist system.
The British rejected an American proposal to search British vessels for alcohol outside the country's three-mile territorial limit.
Greek immigrants to the United States, facing racism and bigotry, established the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) with the mission of promoting unity and assimilation into their new home country’s society. Like immigrants from various Catholic countries, the largely Orthodox Greek immigrants were the targets of nativist hatred.
The Battle of Kilmallock, one of the largest conventional battles of the Irish Civil War, started. The battle would continue on until August 5 when the evenly matched forces would see the Irish Army prevail.
It was Laddie Boy's birthday.
A press photographer in Washington, D. C. took a photo of men on motorcycles.
Another took a photograph of the dedication to Lt. Samuel J. Harris, U.S. World War One veteran who had died during an insurrection in Lithuania, where he was serving as a volunteer.
Around 1,000 Americans had volunteered to serve the Baltic nation against the Reds in the same time period.
Limerick was taken from the IRA by the Irish Army. The Irish Army also shelled IRA held Waterford.
The Saturday Evening Post went to press with what would have been a gender bending cover, women being an enduringly popular illustration topic then and now.
The Country Gentleman chose children as the theme, which they often did.
President Harding traveled to Gettysburg.
A group of Miners and Operators visited Harding at the White House.
Herbert Lord was sworn in as Director of the United States Agency of the Budget.
Lord had served in similar roles in the U.S. Army, from which he had just retired, and had proven very adept at it.
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 commenced, with any major railroad strike being a national disaster at the time. It would run into August.
In Wexford, the IRA derailed a train, that somehow being a revolutionary act that made sense, somehow.
Construction commenced on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. It was the first planned regional shopping center. It is still in operation.
An explosion and fire at the Four Courts resulted in a cease fire, and then a surrender of the IRA men occupying the structure.
The United States agreed to end its occupation of the Dominican Republic, which had started in 1916. The last U.S. troops would withdraw in 1924.
Congress passed the Lodge-Fish Resolution endorsing the Balfour Declaration. The State Department opposed the move.
The Irish Civil War is regarded as having commenced on this day in 1922 with an artillery strike on the Four Courts in Dublin.
The Irish Republican Army had occupied the Four Courts since April 14, hoping to spark a conflict with the British. The Irish government ignored until British demands that it be addressed made that impossible. The Irish Free State borrowed two artillery pieces and 200 shells from the British and first demanded that the IRA remove itself from the building, which they refused to do.
What exactly occurred remains unclear. It's not certain who have the order to commence the bombardment. Some IRA survivors maintained they were actually getting ready to surrender when it commenced. Some suggest that British artillerymen in small numbers were provided with the guns, but if so, there's no definitive proof of that.
The event would spark the commencement of the Irish Civil War between the Irish Free State and the Irish Republican Army, which would last about a year.
The Syrian Federation, under the French mandate, came into existence.
Secretary of State for the Colonies Winston Church warned the Irish government that if it did not act to oust rebels in the Four Courts, the British would. This in a speech before parliament.
The Irish General Election was held. Sinn Féin went into the election split into pro and anti treaty camps, with the pro treaty wing led by Michael Collins winning 58 of the 128 seats. The anti treaty faction lead by Éamon de Valera took 34. While that result showed fairly clearly that a majority of the Irish (whom in truth would likely have settled for home rule) supported the treaty, it did leave the pro treat portion of the party six seats short of a majority.
The rest of the votes for the 34 remaining seats went to the pro treaty Labour Party (17), the Independents (9), the agrarian Farmers Party (7) and the Businessman's Party (1). This left the Dail with a clear pro treaty majority.
Chen Chiung-ming captured Guangzhou and announced the departure of Southern China's secessionist leaders, including President Sun Yat-sen. This was also announced as a step towards reuniting China.
Ralph Day, Director of the U.S. Bureau of Prohibition, noted a 79% decrease in alcohol related deaths since the advent of Prohibition in statistics provided to the New York City Department of Health.
A draft of the constitution of the Irish Free State was made public. Women were granted the franchise and the oath of allegiance to the king was maintained.
The British Army, on this day in 1922, turned over possession of Portobello Barracks in Dublin to the Irish Free State Army, brining to an end British military presence in southern Ireland.
Manchester England's first commercial radio station, 2ZY, commenced periodic broadcasting. It remains in operation today as BBC Radio Machester.
The Literary Digest anticipated Easter, with a young woman looking less than thrilled by the probable contents of a box containing an Easter Bonnet.
And in Washington, D. C. apparently there were long lines to license automobiles.
The United Mine Workers went on strike.
The Provisional Government of Ireland took over governing 26 out of 32 Irish counties. On the same day police officers in Belfast murdered five men and a seven-year-old boy in retaliation for a sniper killing of a policeman.
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Sir Hugh Trenchard became the first British Air Chief Marshal.
Emperor Charles I of Austria, who had failed in an effort to regain his Hungarian crown, and then fell ill in early March, died at age 34. His last words to his wife and nine year old son were "I love you so much". His death took place in Portugal, where he was living in exile.
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Or, more properly, it is Washington's birthday. He was born on this date in 1732 to Johan and Mary (nee Ball) Washington.
Pro and anti factions of Sinn Fein signed a truce regarding cooperation with the Irish Free State and agreed to revisit the topic in three months.
WOR in New York began regular broadcasting with a mix of music and news.
