1st » Six Irish Catholic civilians Arnon Street killings known as are shot and beaten to death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
3rd » Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
5th » The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
7th » Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
15th » U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
16th » The Treaty of Rapallo, 1922 or Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Weimar Republic known as Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
20th » The Soviet Union e.g Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
24th » The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1922
1st » Duke Jordan, American pianist and composer (d. 2006)
1st » William Manchester, American historian and author (d. 2004)