Editing 1922 (section)

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1922}}
[[File:SphinxGiza.jpg|thumb|125px|right|[[February 28]]: Egypt independent.]]
* [[February 6]]
** [[Pope Pius XI]] (Achille Ratti) succeeds [[Pope Benedict XV]], to become the 259th [[pope]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Richard L. Rubenstein|author2=John K. Roth|title=Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfoBx6skMCkC&pg=PA269|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|isbn=978-0-664-22353-3|pages=269}}</ref>
** The [[Washington Naval Treaty|Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty]] is signed between the United States, United Kingdom, [[Empire of Japan|Japan]], [[French Third Republic|France]] and [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]]. Japan returns some of its control over the [[Shandong Peninsula]] to China.
* [[February 8]]
** [[President of the United States]] [[Warren G. Harding]] introduces the first radio in the [[White House]].
** In the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]], the [[Cheka]] becomes the [[Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie]] (GPU), a section of the [[NKVD]].
* [[February 10]]–[[February 17|17]] – [[Modern Art Week]] in [[São Paulo]] marks the start of [[Modernism]] in [[Brazil]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Amaral|first1=Aracy|first2=Kim Mrazek|last2=Hastings|year=1995|title=Stages in the Formation of Brazil's Cultural Profile|journal=Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts|volume=21|pages=9–25|doi=10.2307/1504129|jstor=1504129}}</ref>
* [[February 14]]
** Finnish Minister of the Interior [[Heikki Ritavuori]] is assassinated by [[Ernst Tandefelt]].
** ''[[MV Baragoola|Baragoola]]'', the last of the Binngarra class [[Manly ferry services|Manly ferries]], is launched at [[Balmain, New South Wales]].
* [[February 15]] – The inaugural session of the [[Permanent Court of International Justice]] (PCIJ) is held in [[The Hague]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Nagendra Singh|title=The Role and Record of the International Court of Justice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VxkEWTwXFUcC&pg=PA297|date=16 November 1989|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=0-7923-0291-5|pages=297}}</ref>
* [[February 26]] – ''[[Leser v. Garnett]]'': The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rebuffs a challenge to the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], which gave women the right to vote on the same terms as men.
* [[February 28]] – The [[Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence]] by the United Kingdom ends its [[protectorate]] over [[Egypt]], and grants the country nominal [[Kingdom of Egypt|independence]], reserving control of military and diplomatic matters.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=King|first=Joan Wucher|title=Historical Dictionary of Egypt|series=Books of Lasting Value|year=1989|orig-date=1984|publisher=American University in Cairo Press|isbn=978-977-424-213-7|pages=259–260}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-first=Albert P.|editor1-last=Blaustein|editor1-link=Albert Blaustein|editor2-first=Jay A.|editor2-last=Sigler|editor3-first=Benjamin R.|editor3-last=Beede|title=Independence Documents of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=feyI5kisdBcC&pg=PA204|volume=1|year=1977|publisher=Oceana Publications|location=Dobbs Ferry, NY|isbn=978-0-379-00794-7|pages=204–205}}</ref>