1921 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1921?
- 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 1, 1921 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
- March 6, 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
- March 8, 1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
- March 19, 1921 – Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
- March 31, 1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
- 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.
- July 1, 1921 – The Communist Party of China is founded.
- July 11, 1921 – A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
- July 27, 1921 – Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
- 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 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.
- November 4, 1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
- November 7, 1921 – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
- November 11, 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
- November 14, 1921 – The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
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