Timeline April 1922

Events in April 1922 8

• 1922 – 2019 Doris Day (1922-2019) American actress and singer, one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1950s and 1960s and later a leading animal-welfare campaigner.
• 1922 Doris Day born in Cincinnati Doris Day is born in Cincinnati.
• 1922 – 1999 Julius Nyerere (1922-1999) Died 14 October 1999, aged 77 Julius Nyerere led Tanganyika, later Tanzania, to independence and served as its first president for more than two decades. He was a prominent advocate of African socialism and Pan-Africanism, promoting the philosophy of Ujamaa. He died of leukemia in London.
• 1922 – 1995 Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) Died 22 October 1995, aged 73 Kingsley Amis was a British novelist and poet best known for his comic novel Lucky Jim, a landmark of postwar English fiction. He wrote more than twenty novels and won the Booker Prize in 1986 for The Old Devils. His son Martin Amis also became a prominent novelist.
• 1922 Treaty of Rapallo Signed Germany and Soviet Russia restore diplomatic relations Germany and Soviet Russia signed the Treaty of Rapallo on 16 April 1922, renouncing territorial and financial claims against each other and normalizing diplomatic relations. Both states were isolated after the First World War, and the treaty included secret military cooperation clauses. It alarmed the Western Allies, who had excluded Soviet Russia from the Genoa Conference then underway.
• 1922 – 2017 Barbara Hale (1922-2017) American actress, Della Street in Perry Mason.
• 1922 Barbara Hale born in DeKalb Barbara Hale is born in DeKalb.
• 1922 – 1987 Alistair MacLean (1922-1987) Died 2 February 1987, aged 64 MacLean was a Scottish novelist known for adventure thrillers including The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, several of which were adapted into major films. He was one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century. He died in Munich, West Germany.