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Events on September 11 in history

1922Sep, 11

The Sun News-Pictorial is founded in Melbourne, Australia.

The Sun News-Pictorial (known as The Sun) was a morning daily tabloid newspaper published in Melbourne, Victoria, from 1922 until its merger in 1990 with The Herald to form the Herald-Sun.

The Sun News-Pictorial was part of The Herald and Weekly Times stable of Melbourne newspapers. For more than fifty years it was the newspaper with the largest circulation in Australia.

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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.