The following events occurred in June 1922:
June 1, 1922 (Thursday) The Royal Ulster Constabulary was formed as the police force of Northern Ireland and successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary. Rudolph Valentino appeared in Los Angeles court for a preliminary hearing on the bigamy charge against him. The courtroom was packed with spectators, mostly women, eager to see the screen idol. Born: Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer, in Östermalm (d. 2007) Joan Caulfield, American film and stage actress; in West Orange, New Jersey (d. 1991) Lala Abdul Rashid, goalkeeper for the Pakistan Olympic men's field hockey team during the 1960 games; in Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, British India (d. 1988)
June 2, 1922 (Friday) China's acting prime minister, Zhou Ziqi (referred to in the press at the time as Chow Tsu-chi) became the acting President of the Republic of China as Xu Shichang (Hsu Shih-chang) stepped aside. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories, premiered his film The Lost World, with the first showing at a dinner before the Society of American Magicians at New York City's Hotel McAlpin, and challenged the assembled illusionists to figure out how he had commissioned the unprecedented special effects. Aimo Cajander became Prime Minister of Finland. Voting concluded in elections in Hungary for the 245-member Hungarian National Assembly, with István Bethlen's Unity Party winning a majority with 140 seats. Voting began on May 28. Japan ratified the Shandong Treaty which improved relations with China and agreed to withdraw its troops from the Shandong Province, in return for China providing for protection of foreign construction workers building the Jinghu railway between Shanghai and Beijing. Born: Charlie Sifford, American professional golfer who became (in 1959) the first African American player allowed on the PGA Tour, in Charlotte, North Carolina (d. 2015) Stanislav Chekan, Soviet Russian character actor in film; in Rostov-on-Don, RSFSR (d. 1994) Died: Take Ionescu, 63, former Prime Minister of Romania and writer, died of typhoid fever traced to eating oysters in Italy. John Moses Cheney, 63, U.S. federal judge for Florida and supporter of African-American rights
June 3, 1922 (Saturday) Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen set out from Seattle toward Nome, Alaska on the schooner Maud, on an expedition to the North Pole. The Igor Stravinsky opera buffa Mavra premiered at the Paris Opera. YPF S.A., an Argentine corporation for oil and gas exploration, production and distribution, was incorporated in Buenos Aires. The company, Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (Spanish for Petroleum Deposit Production) was the world's first oil company owned entirely by the government. Died: Mary Virginia Terhune, 90, bestselling American novelist
June 4, 1922 (Sunday) Eighty people were killed when the Argentine steamer Villa Franca exploded and sank off of the coast of Paraguay, near Hohenau. The ship was transporting tourists from Argentina to Iguazu Falls when the blast took place at 1:40 in the morning, and "the vessel sank so quickly that the passengers had no time to dress or to get lifebelts." Born: Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr., the first high-ranking African-American officer in the United States Navy; in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2004) Joe Vancisin, American basketball coach and inductee in the College Basketball Hall of Fame; in Bridgeport, Connecticut (d. 2021) Died: W. H. R. Rivers, 58, English doctor
June 5, 1922 (Monday) The U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Wyoming v. Colorado, a dispute between the two U.S. states over Colorado's upstream diversion of waters from the Laramie River that served the water needs of Wyoming. The Court ruled that Colorado's use of the Laramie River was limited, but not entirely precluded, by the needs of people downstream. Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral, aviators of the Portuguese Navy, completed the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic Ocean, arriving in Pernambuco in Brazil 67 days after their departure from Lisbon in Portugal, losing their first two airplanes along the way. They arrived in Rio de Janeiro on June 17. Former German Foreign Minister Philipp Scheidemann, leader of Germany's Socialist Party, escaped an attack by young assassin while vacationing at the Wilhelmshohe resort near Kassel. The attacker jumped on at Scheidemann's and threw hydrogen cyanide (commonly called prussic acid) at him. Scheidemann fired two shots at his assailant before being rendered unconscious, but recovered without injury. The U.S. state of Rhode Island licensed its first radio station, WEAN in Providence.