Timeline January 1922

Events in January 1922 7

• 1854 – 1922 Pope Benedict XV (1854-1922) Died 22 January 1922, aged 67 Pope Benedict XV, born Giacomo della Chiesa, died in Rome of pneumonia. His papacy was dominated by efforts to keep the Vatican neutral during the First World War and to provide humanitarian relief. He was succeeded by Pope Pius XI.
• 1864 – 1922 Nellie Bly (1864-1922) Died 27 January 1922, aged 57 Nellie Bly, the American journalist famous for her 1889-90 race around the world in emulation of Around the World in Eighty Days and for her undercover exposé of a New York asylum, died of pneumonia in New York City. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism. Her real name was Elizabeth Cochrane.
• 1874 – 1922 Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) Died 5 January 1922, aged 47 Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, died of a heart attack aboard his ship Quest off South Georgia at the start of a new expedition. He was buried on the island at his wife's request. He is remembered chiefly for the survival of his entire crew after the loss of the Endurance in 1915.
• 1922 Australian Open 1922 Men: James Anderson · Women: Mall Molesworth First women's Australian Championships. Mall Molesworth became the inaugural women's champion.
• 1922 – 1931 Christ the Redeemer Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — New Wonder An Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ standing 98 feet tall atop the 2,300-foot Corcovado mountain overlooking Rio de Janeiro. Designed by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, it was completed in 1931 and has become the defining symbol of both Rio and Brazil. It is the largest Art Deco sculpture in the world.
• 1922 Insulin First Used to Treat Diabetes Leonard Thompson becomes the first patient successfully treated On 11 January 1922 a purified insulin extract, developed by Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip at the University of Toronto, was used to treat 14-year-old diabetic patient Leonard Thompson. The treatment dramatically lowered his blood sugar and marked the first effective therapy for type 1 diabetes. Banting and colleague John Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine later that year.
• 1922 – 1994 Telly Savalas (1922-1994) Died 22 January 1994, aged 72 Telly Savalas, the American actor best known for playing the lollipop-loving detective Kojak on television, died of prostate cancer in Los Angeles. The role made him one of the most recognizable TV stars of the 1970s.