Biggest Events of the Year 1922

The Top Ten

1 USSR declared

2 Fascists march on Rome. Mussolini becomes leader of Italy

3 Irish Free State comes into existence

4 Reparations Commission fixes German liability at 132 billion gold marks. German inflation begins

5 Howard Carter find the entrance to Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt

6 Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, overthrows last sultan

7 Reader's Digest debuts

8 First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient

9 Herbert McLean Evans discovers the substance that promotes human growth, a hormone from the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland

10 German Army occupies Saxony

The Contenders

11 Great Fire of Smyrna

12 Egypt becomes independent from UK

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