1921 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1921?
- January 9, 1921 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, began near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
- February 8, 1921 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- 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 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.
- April 11, 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
- April 15, 1921 – Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
- May 19, 1921 – The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
- 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 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.
- September 7, 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
- October 19, 1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
- October 26, 1921 – The Chicago Theatre opens.
- 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.
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