July 1922
The following events occurred in July 1922: July 1, 1922 (Saturday) *The Great Railroad Strike began in the United States as 400,000 railworkers walked off of the job. *Construction began on the Country Club Plaza, the world's first regional shopping center, in Kansas City, Missouri. The Plaza opened in 1923. * James Harvey and Joe Jordan, two African-American men tried ''in absentia'' on accusations of rape and sentenced to death, were seized by a white mob of about 50 people while being driven by a deputy sheriff through Liberty County, Georgia and lynched. A grand jury indicted 22 men, and four were convicted of murder. *Five men and a woman on the ''Spray'', a boat on the St. Lawrence River, were drowned when the boat was struck by a larger passenger ship, the ''Cairndhu'', near Sorel, Quebec. *Born: **S. R. Rao, Indian archaeologist who claimed in 1992 to have deciphered the Indus script used by the Indus Valley civilisation in South Asia between 2600 BC and 1900 BC; ...
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