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Rory Calhoun
1922Aug, 8

Rory Calhoun

Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999) was an American film and television actor, screenwriter and producer. He starred in numerous Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s, and appeared in supporting roles in films such as How to Marry a Millionaire (1953).

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Events on 1922

  • 11Jan

    Diabetes mellitus

    First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
  • 2Feb

    James Joyce

    Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
  • 13Sep

    Great Fire of Smyrna

    The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
  • 4Nov

    Tutankhamun

    In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
  • 24Nov

    Executions during the Irish Civil War

    Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.