The following events occurred in March 1922:

• Artur Bernardes of the Mineiro Republican Party won the Brazilian presidential election.
• The RSFSR (Russia's Republic in the Soviet Union) and Sweden signed a temporary commercial treaty in Stockholm. The Swedish Riksdag would later refuse to ratify it.^[1]
• Born:
  • Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1974-77 and 1992-1995; in Jerusalem (assassinated 1995)
  • William Gaines, U.S. publisher, of Mad magazine and EC Comics; in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1992)
  • Michael Flanders, English actor and songwriter (Flanders and Swann), in London (d. 1975)
• Died: Pichichi (Rafael Moreno), 29, Spanish soccer football forward, died of typhus

• Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda was cleared to become the first female member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, after the Committee for Privileges and Conduct agreed with her argument that she was entitled under the law to succeed to the peerage of her father, David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, who had died in 1918. ^[2]
• WNBC in New York first began broadcasting, initially as WEAF. The radio station went on to become the flagship station of the NBC Radio Network.
• Charles P. Steinmetz, German-born American electrical engineer and inventor, announced at the General Electric laboratories in Schenectady, New York, that he had "succeeded in producing and controlling an indoor thunderstorm" with the successful test of generators that could discharge over 100,000 volts of electricity at 10,000 amperes for 0.01 seconds. ^[3]
• All 25 crew of the Norwegian freighter Grøntoft died after the ship foundered in a North Atlantic storm about 500 miles (800 km) southeast of Nova Scotia. By the time the steamship Estonia arrived to the coordinates radioed from the ill-fated ship, there was no trace of the vessel, which had been carrying cargo from Galveston, Texas to Esbjerg in Denmark. ^[4] According to the captain of the Estonia, as it was racing to the scene, the last message received, at 12:10 p.m., was that the crew had waited too long too lower the lifeboats and to evacuate. "The boats are smashed and some of the men were swept overboard," the telegraph operator signaled, "We are almost awash now. I may be driven out any minute. Hurry. You may not hear from me again." ^[5]
• Born: Bill Quackenbush, Canadian ice hockey player, in Toronto (d. 1999)

• Italian Fascists carried out a coup d'état in the Free State of Fiume. ^[6][7] Riccardo Zanella, the President of the Fiume, yielded after the government palace was shelled by Fascist rebels. Given three minutes to agree to surrender, Zanella yielded to the coup leader, Giovanni Giuriati. ^[8] Giuriati, a Fascist Party member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, resigned from the Chamber on March 9 and made plans to become the new leader of Fiume, with an objective of having the semi-independent state annexed back into Italy. ^[9]
• Thirteen people were killed, and 12 others injured when two trains collided with a bus at a crossing in Painesville, Ohio.^[10] The bus on Main Street and was approaching the St. Clair Street railroad crossing in Painesville when it was struck by the eastbound New York Central Railroad express train 600. Minutes later, the westbound New York Central train 3 crashed into the wreckage of the bus and the train. ^[11]
• Montreal's five-story tall City Hall, which had been built in 1891 at a cost of over one million dollars, was completely destroyed in a fire. ^[12]

• Georgy Chicherin, the Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, announced a reversal of the position of the Communist government and informed food relief officials that the Soviet government would pay the international obligations that had been incurred by the Russian Empire during the rule of the tsars. ^[13]
• The F. W. Murnau-directed German Expressionist horror film Nosferatu starring Max Schreck premiered in Germany.
• The drama film The Cradle starring Ethel Clayton and Charles Meredith was released.
• Babe Ruth signed a new, three-year contract with the New York Yankees, providing a base salary of $50,000 per year (equivalent to $746,000 a century later) and a bonus of $500 ($7,460) for each home run hit in a game. ^[14]
• Born:
  • Richard E. Cunha, cinematographer and film director; in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 2005)
  • Martha O'Driscoll, actress; in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 1998)
  • Dina Pathak, Indian actor and director; in Amreli, Gujarat, British India (d. 2002)
• Died: Bert Williams, 47, popular African-American vaudeville entertainer, died days after collapsing on stage at a theater in Detroit a few days earlier. ^[15]

• At the age of 61, famous sharpshooter and entertainer Annie Oakley shot a record 98 out of 100 clay targets from a distance of 16 yards.^[16]
• WHK in Cleveland, the first commercial radio station to broadcast in the state of Ohio, went on the air.^[17][18]

• Former U.S. Postmaster General Will H. Hays began working as the American film industry's censor and assumed the job as director of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPDAA). "The potentialities of the moving picture for moral influence and education are limitless," he told reporters, "and therefore its integrity should be protected as we protect the integrity of our churches, and its quality developed as we develop our schools." ^[19]
• Born: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual; in Bologna (d. 1975)

• White miners called for a general strike in South Africa after their employers proposed to open semi-skilled jobs to non-European (i.e. black African or Asian) workers.^[16]
• The engagement of the wealthy heiress Edwina Ashley to Lord Louis Mountbatten was announced.^[16]
• Born: Wanda Klaff, German war criminal and Nazi camp commandant; Danzig (executed 1946)

• Sigurður Eggerz became Prime Minister of Iceland for a second time.
• The Graystone Ballroom opened in Detroit.
• The mystery film Sherlock Holmes starring John Barrymore was released.

• The United States formally declined to participate in the Genoa Conference.^[20]
• The 14th Canadian Parliament, the first under new Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, entered session.
• 108 mph winds were recorded in the Isles of Scilly as a hurricane swept the coast of England.^[16]
• Born:
  • Ralph H. Baer, German-born U.S. electronics engineer who invented the first home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey; in Rodalben, Germany (d. 2014);
  • Cyd Charisse, American film actress and dancer, leading lady and co-star of Singin' in the Rain; as Tula Ellice Finklea, in Amarillo, Texas (d. 2008)
  • Yevgeny Matveyev, Soviet actor and film director; in Novoukrainka, Ukrainian SSR (d. 2003)
  • Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese historian and manga artist, in Sakaiminato, Tottori, Japan
  • Carl Furillo, U.S. major league baseball player; in Stony Creek Mills, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
• Died: Elizabeth Cotton, Lady Hope, 79, British evangelist

• The Eugene O'Neill play The Hairy Ape opened at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York.^[21]
• Born: Count Flemming Valdemar of Rosenborg, Danish prince and Navy commander; in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2002)

• Martial law was declared in Johannesburg in response to incidents of sabotage, fighting and looting during the miners' strike.^[22] The action came after nine special constables, hired to protect the mines, were shot and killed, while another 27 policemen were taken hostage at Newlands near Johannesburg. ^[23]
• The Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in India for sedition.^{[24] [25]}
• The German government ordered all monarchist emblems removed from public buildings.^[16]
• The U.S. state of Colorado got its first licensed radio station, KLZ in Denver.^[26][27]
• Died: Harry Kellar, 72, American stage magician

• Riots killed 100 striking mineworkers in the worst day of the Rand Rebellion in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa.^[28]
• The National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament, the first national college basketball championship ever held in the United States, was played in Indianapolis, Indiana, and five conference champions participated, as well as one runner up. The title was won by Wabash College, which had the best record in the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and defeated Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association champion Kalamazoo College, 43 to 23. ^[29] Other teams that participated were Mercer College of Georgia (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association runner up); Grove City College (Western Pennsylvania League); Illinois Wesleyan College (Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference); and the University of Idaho (Pacific Coast Conference).
• Born:
  • Abdul Razak Hussein, second Prime Minister of Malaysia (1970 to 19750; in Pekan, Penang, British Malaya (d. 1976)
  • Vincent Mroz, U.S. Secret Service agent and Marine Corps veteran who helped foil the 1950 attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman; in Stanley, Wisconsin (d. 2008)
• Died: Joe Gerhardt, 67, American baseball player

• The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic was established.
• Gandhi offered to plead guilty to the charges against him and declined to present any legal defense.^[30]
• A bullet was fired into the automobile of South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts, but he was not injured.^[31]
• Born:
  • Jack Kerouac, American novelist known for his 1957 Beat Generation classic On the Road; in Lowell, Massachusetts (died of abdominal hemorrhage, 1969)
  • Lane Kirkland, American labor union leader and President of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995; in Camden, South Carolina (d. 1999)

• Government forces gained the upper hand in South Africa against the rebels. A total of 2,200 had been captured to date.^[28]
• The Prince of Wales Royal Military College was inaugurated in Doon Valley, India by Edward, Prince of Wales.
• Delegates from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland opened a five-day conference in Warsaw to create a defensive league and arbitrate disputes.^[7]
• The third trial of Fatty Arbuckle began.^[32]

• South African Rebels surrendered in Fordsburg to government troops after 75 minutes of bombardment.^[33]

• Fuad became King of Egypt.
• Éamon de Valera announced the formation of a new party, the Cumann na Poblachta.^[34]
• A huge early morning fire in Chicago wiped out an entire block of commercial buildings and did about $10 million in damage.^[35]
• WSB in Atlanta, the first licensed radio station in the U.S. state of Georgia, went on the air.^[26][36]
• KGG in Portland, the first licensed radio station in Oregon, went on the air.^[26]

• The South African rebellion ended.^[37]
• The French Red Cross and the Soviet government signed an agreement in Berlin on measures to fight the Russian famine. It was the first contract ever concluded between France and Soviet Russia.^[38]
• WHD in Morgantown, West Virginia became the first licensed radio station in that state.^[26]
• Born: Harding Lemay, screenwriter and playwright, in Bangor, New York
• Died: G. B. Halsted, 68, American mathematician and expert on non-Euclidean geometry

• Italy sent troops to occupy the Free State of Fiume in response to the coup, saying it was only doing so because the Treaty of Rapallo assigned Italy the responsibility of policing the state and because it sought to ensure the election of a legal government.^[39]
• WIP, Philadelphia's first commercial radio station, went on the air.
• Born: Patrick Suppes, American scientist and philosopher; in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2014)

• In Ahmedabad, Gandhi was sentenced to six year's imprisonment.^[28]
• The Communist Party of Great Britain assembled in London for its fourth party congress.^[40]
• Born: Egon Bahr, West German government minister and legislatlr; in Treffurt, Germany (d. 2015)

• Franz Hailer became the first pilot to land a plane on the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, when he landed a Rumpler C.I on the Schneeferner glacier 500 metres from the summit.^[41][42]
• Died: Max von Hausen, 75, German Army commander

• The USS Langley, converted from the collier USS Jupiter, entered service as the first American aircraft carrier.^[28]
• The Communist Party of Italy opened its second party congress in Rome.^[43]
• Born: Carl Reiner, American comedian, film and TV actor, director and producer, best known for creating and acting in The Dick Van Dyke Show; in the Bronx, New York (d. 2020)

• Queen Mary inaugurated London Waterloo station.^[16]
• Born: Russ Meyer, U.S. film producer and director known for pioneering the first commercially successful softcore "sexplotiation films"; in San Leandro, California (d. 2004)

• Giovanni Giuriati, a Fascist Party member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, was installed as the new President of the Free State of Fiume after the coup d'état had removed the previous government.
• Irish republican Rory O'Connor gave an infamous press conference declaring that the IRA would no longer obey the Dáil because, he said, it had abandoned the Republic. When asked if that meant that they were to set up a military dictatorship, he said, "You can take it that way if you like."^[34][44]

• Lawrence Sperry became the first pilot to land a plane at the U.S. Capitol. His small scout plane touched down on the concrete plaza in front of the Capitol building and rolled up the steps in order to stop because the plane had no brakes.^[45]
• The South African miner's strike ended.^[46]
• The U.S. state of Kansas got its first licensed radio station, WEY in Wichita.^[26]
• WKC in Baltimore became the first licensed radio station in the state of Maryland.^[26]
• WKN in Memphis, Tennessee became the first commercial radio station in that state.^[26]
• Born:
  • Ugo Tognazzi, Italian comedian and film actor, in Cremona, Italy (d. 1990).
  • Robert Simons, English cricketer and wicket-keeper; in Watford, Hertfordshire (d. 2011)

• The McMahon killings of six Roman Catholic civilians, was carried out in Northern Ireland by a group of men dressed in police uniforms, in a home invasion in Belfast.

• Poland annexed the Republic of Central Lithuania, a puppet state that had been created by Poland in 1920 following an invasion of the Republic of Lithuania.^[28]
• Music Hall won the Grand National horse race in England.^[16]
• The Swiss Federal Council settled a long-running border dispute between Venezuela and Colombia by siding with Colombia.^[7]
• Died: Walter Parr, 50, English-born American preacher and author; from complications of influenza

• Britain and Iraq signed a military agreement giving the British control over Iraqi defenses.^[7]
• The Brazilian Communist Party was founded.^[47]

• The Allied Powers agreed to amend the Treaty of Sèvres in an attempt to end the Greco-Turkish War, but the Turkish Nationalists refused to sign an armistice until Greece evacuated all its forces from Anatolia.^[7]

• The U.S. Supreme Court decided United Zinc & Chemical Co. v. Britt.
• Born:
  • Stefan Wul (pen name for Pierre Pairault), French science fiction writer (d. 2003)
  • Josephine Kabick, American baseball pitcher and AAGPBL star; in Detroit (d. 1978)

• In Shanghai, two Koreans attempted to assassinate the former Japanese Minister of War Tanaka Giichi as he was getting off a ship, but they missed and killed an American woman instead. Both would-be assassins were quickly apprehended.^[48]
• The Toronto St. Pats beat the Vancouver Millionaires, 5 to 1, to win ice hockey's Stanley Cup, three games to two.
• Born:
  • Joey Maxim (ring name for Giuseppe Berardinelli), American boxer and world light heavyweight champion 1950 to 1952; in Cleveland (d. 2001)
  • Felice Chiusano, Italian singer and part of the popular Quartetto Cetra group; in Fondi (d. 1990)
• Died: Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, 51, Russian criminologist, journalist and statesman, was killed in Berlin while stopping an assassination attempt against publisher Pavel Milyukov

• The printing press of the Irish newspaper The Freeman's Journal was destroyed by IRA men for its support of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.^[49]

• The U.S. Senate approved the Washington Naval Treaty and the Nine-Power Treaty.^[50]
• Died: John Craig Eaton, 45, Canadian businessman and philanthropist who had built the Eaton's department store chain into the largest in Canada at the time, died of pneumonia

• The Anglo-Irish Treaty received Royal Assent.^[34]
• The first licensed radio station in the state of Louisiana, WWL in New Orleans, began broadcasting.^[51]
• The Hinterkaifeck murders occurred in Germany.
• Born: Richard Kiley, American stage and television actor, winner of two Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards; in Chicago (d. 1999)