The following events occurred in April 1922:
April 1, 1922 (Saturday) Over 500,000 United Mine Workers of America miners across 26 states went on strike in the United States. The British government formally transferred all functions of the former Government of Southern Ireland (which encompassed 26 of the 32 counties of Ireland) to the new Provisional Government by an Order in Council.
In order to alleviate a budget deficit, the government of Greece (led by Prime Minister Dimitrios Gounaris) implemented a program that required the existing Greek drachma banknotes to literally be cut in half, with the side on the right (which had an image of the coat of arms) to be exchanged for new bank notes at half value. The left side of the note had to be surrendered to the bank in exchange for a government bond with a 6.5 percent annual interest rate. The Arnon Street killings of five men and a 7-year-old boy were carried out in Belfast in Northern Ireland by a group of police officers in retaliation for the sniper killing of Royal Irish Constable George Turner. The University of Cambridge rowing team won the 74th Boat Race. Born: Saad el-Shazly, Egyptian military commander who led the Egyptian Armed Forces during the 1973 war with Israel; in Basyoun (d. 2011) William Manchester, author, biographer and historian; in Attleboro, Massachusetts (d. 2004) Sonny King, (stage name for Luigi Schiavone), American singer and comedian, entertainer in Las Vegas influential in the development of the lounge singer persona; in Brooklyn (d. 2006) Died: Emperor Charles I of Austria, 34, the last monarch of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (where he was King Karoly IV), died of respiratory failure at his home on Portugal's island of Madeira, where he had lived in exile after the end of World War One. He had ascended the thrones of both nations upon the death of his great-uncle, Franz Joseph I, on November 21, 1916, and had renounced his claims to both thrones on November 11, 1918, at the end of World War One. After an attempt to retake the throne of Hungary in October, 1921, Charles returned to exile in Madeira. His son, former Crown Prince Otto von Habsburg, would continue to lobby in favor of a restoration of the monarchy and would go into politics as one of the first elected members of the European Parliament. Jane Bunford, 26, British victim of gigantism, who, at a height of was recognized as the tallest woman to have lived until superseded in 1979 by Zeng Jinlian.
April 2, 1922 (Sunday) Marcelo T. de Alvear was elected to a six-year term as the new President of Argentina, receiving 50.51% of the popular vote, more the other five candidates combined. Alvear, who carried 9 of 14 Argentine provinces, received 216 of the 336 electoral votes and was inaugurated on October 12. His Unión Cívica Radical political party won 49 of the 85 contested seats in the Chamber of Deputies to hold 95 of the 158 overall. Jewish citizens who had immigrated to Palestine established two settlements that are now mid-sized cities in Israel. A group of four Americans from New York state, and five employees, established Ra'anana (which now has 75,000 residents) on Palestinian land purchased by the Ahuza Company for Jewish Settlement. On the same day, Givatayim (Hebrew for "Two Hills", with a population of 58,000) was established by 22 Russian Jewish immigrants on the hills of Borochov and Kozlovsky. The Charlie Chaplin comedy short film Pay Day was released.
Died: Hermann Rorschach, 37, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst best known for the "Rorschach tests" for interpreting perception of inkblots, died from peritonitis from a ruptured appendix