1921 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1921?
- January 12, 1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball’s first commissioner.
- February 8, 1921 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- February 19, 1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
- March 18, 1921 – The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
- March 19, 1921 – Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
- March 21, 1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism.
- May 31, 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
- June 28, 1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
- June 30, 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
- July 1, 1921 – The Communist Party of China is founded.
- July 10, 1921 – Belfast’s Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- July 11, 1921 – Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
- August 3, 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
- August 25, 1921 – The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
- August 27, 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
- September 21, 1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
- October 21, 1921 – George Melford’s silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
- October 29, 1921 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
- December 6, 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
- December 23, 1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
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