November 1922

Wednesday 01:

The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.

Saturday 04:

In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

Tuesday 14:

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

Tuesday 21:

Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.

Wednesday 22:

Egypt. Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opened the tomb of Tutankhamun, a Pharaoh who lived around 3,000 years ago. Many people belive that Tutankhamun was murdered.

Friday 24:

Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

Sunday 26:

Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).