Events Date 1922 September | History by KabAstro

Sep 1 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"

Music History

Sep 2 German President Friedrich Ebert declares "Deutschland Uber Alles" the German national anthem

World Record 2000m

Sep 4 Finnish super athlete Paavo Nurmi runs a 2000m world record 5:26.3 in Tampere, Finland

Runner nicknamed the Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi

International Lawn Tennis Challenge

Sep 4 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, NY: Bill Tilden beats James Anderson 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 for unassailable 3-1 lead for US over Australasia; US retains title, ends 4-1

Swallow Sidecar Company

Sep 4 William Walmsley and William Lyons officially found the Swallow Sidecar Company (later Jaguar Cars) in Blackpool, England

Automobile Pioneer and Mr Jaguar William Lyons

Sep 5 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
Sep 7 In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation
Sep 9 St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
Sep 9 Turkish troops conquer Smyrna and murder Greek citizens
Sep 10 New York Yankees play their farewell home games in Polo Grounds, win both games of doubleheader against Philadelphia Athletics; move to Yankee Stadium the following season
Sep 11 Australian newspaper The Sun News-Pictorial is founded, predecessor for the Herald Sun of Melbourne
Sep 11 British mandate of Palestine begins
Sep 11 The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia
Sep 12 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)
Sep 13 "Straw Hat Riot" begins in New York City as youths aggressively taunt men wearing straw hats, getting an early jump on unofficial season's end date of September 15; confrontations continue longer than usual, lasting 8 days
Sep 13 Alleged world record temperature of 136.4°F (58°C) in El Aziziyah, Libya, in the shade (invalidated 2012 by the World Meteorological Organization)
Sep 15 Philadelphia catcher Butch Henline becomes first NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897 during Phillies' 10-9 win over St. Louis Cardinals at the Baker Bowl
Sep 16 Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
Sep 16 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tilden wins third straight US singles title; beats fellow American Bill Johnston 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4

Piet Moeskops

Sep 17 Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ

Sep 17 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
Sep 18 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
Sep 18 Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush
Sep 18 Hungary admitted to League of Nations
Sep 20 Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," opens at Winter Garden Theatre, NYC

Baseball Record

Sep 20 St. Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games

MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and Manager Rogers Hornsby

Harding Approves Jewish Homeland

Sep 21 US President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

Wallal Expedition

Sep 21 Wallal expedition of astronomers and local Nyangumarta people south of Broome, Australia, photograph total solar eclipse proving Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, that space is curved by showing deflection of starlight round the sun [1]

Sep 22 US Congress passes the Cable Act, under which an American women who marries an 'alien' will not lose citizenship; neither will a women marrying an American automatically become a citizen
Sep 23 Berthold Brecht's "Drum in the Night" premieres in Germany
Sep 23 Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
Sep 24 Nuremberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
Sep 24 St Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby sets National League HR mark at 42
Sep 25 Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant