1922

  • First Carrier take-off by LCdr.. V.C. Griffin in Vought VE-7SF from U.S.S. Langley on October 17, 1922.
     
  • Lilian Gatlin becomes first woman to fly across the U.S.
     
  • Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr are Nobel Prize winners in Physics.

Other Facts from 1922

President: Warren G. Harding

 

 

Average annual income

$2,067

 New car

$390

Loaf of bread

$0.09

Gallon of milk

$0.52

Gallon of gas

$0.11

 

 

Dow Jones Average      93

 
                        

Songs from 1922

   “April Showers”
     “Carolina in the Morning”