24th May 1922
"The Battle of San Lorenzo" - Fighting breaks out in Rome between Fascists, Communists, and the police during the reinterment procession of World War I hero Enrico Toti.
The first attempt to fly around the world begins as British Army Major Wilfred T. Blake, Royal Air Force Captain Norman Macmillan, and British Army Lieutenant Colonel L. E. Broome depart Croydon, England, in the modified Airco DH.9 "G-EBDE".
