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
- February 25, 1921 – Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
- March 13, 1921 – Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
- May 24, 1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
- June 20, 1921 – Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
- June 30, 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
- 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 29, 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
- 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.
- October 8, 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
- October 13, 1921 – The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
- October 21, 1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
- 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.
- November 4, 1921 – The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
- November 11, 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
- December 4, 1921 – The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe ‘Fatty’Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
- December 23, 1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
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