The following events occurred in November 1922:
November 1, 1922 (Wednesday) In Ankara, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey voted to declare that the monarchy of the Ottoman Empire led by Sultan Mehmed VI, was abolished, and that since Constantinople was occupied, the city (now Istanbul) was no longer the capital of the Turkish people. Mickey Walker won the World Welterweight Title of boxing with a unanimous decision over Jack Britton at Madison Square Garden. Elections were held in Cuba for half of the 104 seats in the Chamber of Representatives. Died: Lima Barreto, 41, Brazilian novelist and journalist Francisco R. Murguía, 49, former Mexican Army General who attempted to overthrow Mexico's President Álvaro Obregón, was executed the day after his capture by federal troops. General Murguia was taken to the public square in Tepehuanes, where he had been captured, and shot by a firing squad.
November 2, 1922 (Thursday) Regularly-scheduled flying service began in Australia as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service (Qantas) pilot Hudson Fysh departed from the airfield at Longreach, Queensland in a Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 biplane to transport passenger Alexander Kennedy on a flight to Cloncurry. Economic experts opened a conference in Berlin discussing the financial crisis in Germany. Died: Harry Hampton, 51, British Army war hero, was killed when he fell in front of an oncoming train at the Twickenham railway station.
November 3, 1922 (Friday) The German mark fell to another record low of 6,156 to a U.S. dollar. Ratifications of the Concordat of 1922 were exchanged at the Vatican. The Walt Disney-directed animated short (9 minutes) film Puss in Boots was released as a Laugh-O-Gram cartoon. Born: Townsend Cromwell, U.S. oceanographer; in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1958) Died: Jack Kennedy, 52, American train robber who had resumed his criminal career after 12 years incarceration, was shot and killed along with a partner, Harvey Logan, immediately after robbing a train near Wittenberg, Missouri.
November 4, 1922 (Saturday) British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discovered the entrance to the Tomb of Tutankhamun near Al-Uqsur (Luxor) in southern Egypt. Carter would later write that his team had cleared the remains of workmen's huts that had been "used probably by the labourers in the tomb of Rameses" on November 3 and that "Hardly had I arrived on the work next morning than the usual silence, due to the stoppage of the work, made me realize that something extraordinary had happened, and I was greeted with the announcement that a step cut in the rock had been discovered underneath the very first hut to be attacked. This seemed to be good to be true... we were actually in the entrance of a steep cut in the rock, some thirteen feet below the entrance to the tomb of Rameses VI..." Carter sent a telegram to the expedition's sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, that said "At last have made wonderful discovery in Valley; a magnificent tomb with seals intact; re-covered same for your arrival; congratulations." Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, the last Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, resigned after the Grand National Assembly of Turkey abolished the post along with the sultanate. Former Turkish Interior Minister Ali Kemal was kidnapped from the barber shop of the luxurious Tokatlıyan Hotel in Istanbul on orders of General Nureddin Pasha, the military governor of Izmir. The Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the previously unbeaten Penn Quakers, 9 to 7, a major upset and one of the most important wins in Alabama (and Southern) college football history. Died: John William Gott, 56, British secularist and the last person to be convicted of blasphemy under British law, died less than three months after his release from prison.
November 5, 1922 (Sunday) Former German Kaiser Wilhelm II married Hermine Reuss of Greiz at Doorn Castle in the Netherlands. Only 28 guests came to the private civil and religious ceremonies, including Doorn officials who were booed by the crowd. Parliamentary elections were held in Poland; the Christian Union of National Unity emerged as the largest bloc in the Sejm. The comedy and horror film The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, starring Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane, was premiered at the Symphony Theater in Los Angeles. The romantic drama film The Young Rajah starring Rudolph Valentino was released. Born: Sydney Kentridge, South African lawyer; in Johannesburg (living in 2021) Yitzchok Scheiner, American rabbi; in Pittsburgh (d. 2021)